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To: Dave Reed who wrote (3502)	1/3/2000 7:56:00 PM
From: MeDroogies	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13056

I was very active in anti-pollution activities 17 years ago when I was at Syracuse University. As I worked the issues, I learned that things are always a matter of degrees. If pollution was improved by cutting emissions 50%, people would get quiet. Then, 2 years later it would be a "problem" again because we weren't getting 50% improvement EVERY year. I'm not surprised the gov't pollutes, or protects its position as a polluter, because it can always point to corporations as being "evil" while it "always acts in the public interest". As a country, the US pollutes, but the Eastern European nations/former USSR have far greater problems because they were always worse (still are, in some respects), but we never knew it.