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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (11623)	7/21/1997 8:06:00 PM
From: greenspirit	of 108807

Hi Alex, and welcome back. I would say your summary of what I was saying is pretty much right on. But the other area which bothers me and I probably haven't articulated it very well is the whole cost vs risk issue. In life their is risk. Is it worth spending billions to minimize risks which are very unlikely to happen? John Stossel on one of his specials recently talked allot about this. Sometimes we spend millions of dollars under the guise of environmental soundness, to maybe save one life! Maybe?? It just doesn't make sense to me. And when someone like me says "hey is it worth it?" their immediatly told. "OH! you don't care about the environment" Here's an article discussing what I'm trying to get at. townhall.com The other side which is connected to this and which is talked a little about in the article. Is the business of Environmental groups. Christine earlier talked about the environmental people just doing it because they care allot. Well I believe environmental groups are a big business, and it's to their benefit to increase public as well as private funding. They have many lobbyists and spend a large amount of their effort drumming up taxpayer support for their causes. It's in their interest to blow every environmental issue out of proportion. I look very skeptically at their claims, especially when they come from very liberal newspapers like the "San Francisco Chronicle". I think my taxes are high enough without having to support their fatcat salaries, especially if the science doesn't clearly support the cause. Another issue is this idea that we in the U.S.A. are somehow responsible to help cleanup other countries environmental problems. I just flat out disagree their. Now I will agree that if we can get some kind of a lower tariffs or other business arragement such as those you outlined it might make sense. Unfortunatly Alex, I just don't see us doing much of that. I believe it's more true that much of the money we spend on worldwide environmental programs is just thrown down a rathole that some to-bit dictator uses to prop up his power base. Michael

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