Sorry Wolfgang,

Too many years of fighting pollution (that's what I do) and having industry tell me there's nothing damaging about it. I realise my last statement kind of kills it but haven't we all been seeing ads for water purification devices and air purification devices? If things are so hunky dory then why is htere even a market for filtered/bottled water? And for people who are living on paychecks that don't stretch two weeks these things are beyond their means.

All of our actions have had impacts on the weather. We have paved over a great deal of the land changing the albido of the planet.
Whereas it is true that volcanos while active spew tons of sulfates and dioxides as well as other compounds, should we still do nothing and add tons more to what nature puts out?

All the while we have also been losing forests, not by the acre, but by the mile. And our current administration is rolling back laws that protect old growth forests, allow strip mining (which causes the loss of more trees and allows the mine waste to be dumped down the hillside into the streams) without requiring the companies to recover the land.

I've seen part of the proposed ANWAR and it talks about a small footprint. Well according to them the footprint is the concrete base of the facility pier, a 1 ft square piece of concrete. It doesn't account for the masses of metal stretching from base to base.


I am by no means a tree hugger. I have always enforced US law and regulation to the best interest of the public and industry trying to find a balance between economy and ecology. The EPA has not been pursuing violations and unless a state has it's own environmental cops then there is probably no-one else to do it.

The administrations first position was that Global warming didn't exist after years of study. Then they had their own scientists say "guess what, it does exist!" They changed strategy to say that no-one knows for sure that our actions have anything to do with it. This is the same President who reversed course on improving water quality standards saying a lower level of arsenic wouldn't matter.