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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!

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To: Father Terrence who wrote (7757)	5/2/1997 12:16:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	of 108807

What standards? :-) My prime concern is, in a mkt society extrapolated from the little I know of US industrial history, I see near-zero concern for long-term health factors like local&global environment. I won't presume to suggest a solution, but I'd like to see some incentive for keeping it clean (like stopping DDT production/export, building/operating fission power infrastructure only after having an industrywide plan for making core waste a non-issue, both as a poison and as a source for weapons). A pure mkt has no such incentive that I see, as spending on long-term "social/environmental" programs is a short-term profit leech. All industrial powers in a sector must do this together, or the "dirty" ones will be rewarded, perhaps to the point of burying the "clean" ones. If your model were in effect, how would environmental protection/ repair be handled? (Carbon dioxide load. Fluorocarbons. Radionuclides. Persistent pesticides. EM spectrum emissions. A few of the dangers debunked by this country's more development-minded citizens) This is a "straight" question, not a goad.

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