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Re: The March for ... What?

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"Mike Van Pelt" <mvp@web1.calweb.com> wrote in message...
> In article <58FBA226.1A26@ix.netcom.com>,
> The Starmaker  <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>The March for ... What?
> 
> I wondered about that myself.  What I (who am incapable of
> speaking the words "President Trump" without my eyes doing a
> high-velociity barrel roll) saw of the lead-up to it is that it
> is pure strident political partisanship.  They railed against
> those who don't accept the scientific consensus on CO2/climate
> change.  But were there any of them with anything negative to
> say about those who reject the scientific consensus on things
> the "hippie contingent" differs with Science on?  Like GMO food?
> Nuclear power?
> 
> Since one of the sponsors of the March for "Science" is the
> Union of Concerned "Scientists", I suspect not.  We have the
> CO2 output we do in large part due to the UCS's leading role
> in omni-obstructionism of all things nuclear power.  We would
> likely have phased out coal in favor of nuclear decades ago
> if not for them.
> 
> Those who claim that industrial civilization can survive solely
> on "sunny days when the wind is blowing" energy are engaging in
> Arithmetic Denial.  Maybe we need to have a March for
> Arithmetic.
> 
> Before going off on the "waste" issue, search for "Sedan Crater"
> in Google Earth.  Scan south from there.  That's in the general
> area of Yucca Mountain.  Explain to me how the remnants of
> hundreds of nuclear bomb craters, completely uncontained, is a
> greater hazard than properly contained and isolated waste.
> It's the very sorts of people Marching for "Science" whose
> omni-obstructionism has prevented the Yucca Mountain repository
> from being used for the purpose for which it was built at great
> expense.  Then they argue "What about the waste?" like Erik
> and Lyle Menendez demanding the court's mercy because they
> are orphans.
> -- 
> "The urge to save humanity is almost            | Mike Van Pelt
>  always a false front for the urge to rule."   | mvp at calweb.com
>                  -- H.L. Mencken               | KE6BVH

Good one!

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