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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: greenspirit who wrote (51511)8/16/1999 3:55:00 AM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
I was involved in environmental activism in and just after college: did some of the early Love Canal research, took some of the samples that demonstrated the contamination of the Hudson river with PCBs, and spent 6 months doing research on a municipal landfill on Long Island, where large quantities of industrial waste had been illegally dumped (the site was eventually reclassified as an industrial waste site and scheduled for cleanup; I don't know how it worked out). During that time I had a fair bit of contact with Greenpeace people. My impression was that most of them knew little and cared less about the actual issues or the practical steps that might be taken to resolve them. Most seemed to be overgrown children looking for a congenial excuse to vent some undefined anger, more concerned with plotting a dramatic gesture that might get them on TV than with actually looking to define problems and seek solutions.

I suspect there will always be a need for environmental activists: as long as it's possible to make a quick buck by dumping garbage in someone else's yard instead of dealing with it properly there will always be some who take that route. But I do wish that the people who contribute money to fund environmental groups would not assume that results are proportional to the noise that is made.
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