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Re: News Advisory: Still Crazy After Oil These Years!
On Tue, 16 Jul 1996, Jim Barr wrote:
> Date: Tue, 16 JUL 1996 22:57:44 +0100
> From: Jim Barr <JimBarr@wandana.demon.co.uk>
> Newgroups: alt.energy.renewable, alt.save.the.earth,
> alt.sustainable.agriculture, talk.environment, sci.environment,
> sci.energy, bionet.agroforestry
> Subject: Re: News Advisory: Still Crazy After Oil These Years!
>
> David Beorn <dbeorn@freenet.vcu.edu> writes
> >On Tue, 16 Jul 1996, David Beorn wrote:
> >
> >> Eric Riley <103263.3410@CompuServe.COM>
> >>
> >> On 8 Apr 1996, Eric Riley wrote:
> >>
> >> > From: Eric Riley <103263.3410@CompuServe.COM>
> >> >
> >> > What's wrong with using nuclear energy?
> >
> >Absolutely nothing - as a matter of fact, those who are REALLY serious
> >about cleaning up the environment WITHOUT going back to living in caves
> >should consider it because it's the ONLY truly non-polluting power. The
> >power plant I worked at has stored ALL of the spent fuel on-site in the
> >containment building and therefore there has been NO need for waste
> >disposal of this type. The "environmentalists" who want to save the
> >environment should stop protesting it and embrace it!!!
> >
> >And by the way, for those of you who might point to Chernobyl or TMI,
> >these were HUMAN mistakes and TOTALLY preventable. They KNEW what they
> >were doing was by-passing the safety systems but they did it anyway - and
> >hence the incidents we have had. In truth, there have been NO deaths in
> >the US attributable to Nuclear power since 1956 when it started.
> >
> >> > Eric Riley
>
> I predict that by the year 2100 more people will have suffered as a
> result of the use of fossil fuels, than as a result of the peacefull use
> of nuclear energy.
>
> But I will not be there to accept your ?
Huh - to accept my question???
> Really I am a greenie, but I do not fear EVERY THING I ca... arghghhhhh.
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