PoliticalChic
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I ask only two things of people like PoliChick and T. Would you please cite the strong, reliable, scientifically precise yet productive pieces of legislation offered up by a Conservative group in either house of Congress in favor of environmental protection? Where's the sterling Conservative legislative record on environmental issues?
Since it doesn't exist, why haven't either of you considered a real estate purchase in Love Canal, NY? Or Times Beach, MO? Could you feel confident bathing, cooking and drinking in the water at Imperial, PA?
You know pollution exists. It poisons and destroys the air, water and soil. You know it comes from industrial and agricultural activities. Yet you want to let it run rampant. Regulated not by law but by company overtsite personnel. It costs money to use government inspectors. Taxpayer money. Do you think it's an American right to pollute? That to regulate emissions is a hindrance to industry and the money to be made?
You bend over backward to dismiss and belittle any action taken by any citizen to protect the environment. You actually believe that mankind cannot harm the environment, in spite of watching the horror in Japan the last month. In spite of Love Canal, NY and Times Beach, MO and Imperial, PA.
With all we've seen, from rivers in Cleveland to the harbor in Boston, how remediation and regulation have helped turn bad situations around. And you would roll back the mechanisms that made those places better.
I honestly can't accept your point of view. I have seen first hand how regulations on emissions changes the works. I have been a field Environmental Engineer. I've cleaned up former steel mill sites so real estate development, even residential units, can be safely built. I have sampled and assessed soils and building materials containing hazardous materials. I have helped a city you have heard of make its drinking water safely potable after being contaminated by naphthalene.
The environmental movement has made a significant change in the state of our planet today. To deny this is to deny scientifically verifiable facts. Yours is a political position against a sane, verifiable, responsible public health and safety position. I'm afraid the paranoia, obfuscations and lies about environmentalists and our concerns is over the top at best, dangerously, irresponsibly silly at worst.
I don't know if you consider Nixon as a conservative, but he was a Republican...
I suggest you review his domestic policies.
Have a wonderful Easter!
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