Re: risk and Safe Drinking Water Act

[Ferdinand.Engelbeen@ping.be (Ferdinand Engelbeen)]

Mark Robinowitz wrote om May 4:

>In Nature, there is no pollution.  Everything created is used by something
>else.  I just spent a few days backpacking in an old growth forest in the
>Appalachians, and to the best of my knowledge, the biotic communities
>there do not synthesize organic chlorine compounds or fission products.
>Even the excrement of animals becomes fuel for plants.  One cannot say the
>same for the chlor-alkali industry.
>
Mark, you did not see close enough to the old growth forest: the fungi and
mushrooms, using dead wood for their own life, produce so much
organochlorines like chlorophenols (seven times higher than allowed by
Dutch legislation), chlorinated humic acids and chlorinated lignine that
any chlor-alkali factory doing so, would immediately have been closed by
the authorities.
Also if you breathed too much terpenes or ozone of that woods, they can
cause cancer... And if you have made some wood fire for cooking or warming,
you made a lot of dioxins, PCB's, PAH's, all nasty byproducts of your
presence as human being...


>And there's no chlor-alkali electrolysis facility in any backyard in my
>neighborhood.
>
It is even worse: you have a chlor-alkali factory in your (white) blood
(cells), producing chlorine bleach (beuh!) when microbes invade you!

>Sure, we all pollute, but some of us pollute thousands of times more than
>others.  If you bike or take mass transit, eat low on the food chain, don't
>use PVC food wraps, consume less of everything, buy food in bulk, etc.,
>you can't take the wrap, so to speak, for stupid production processes
>in industries whose products you consciously strive to avoid.  Does your
>computer printer have 100% recycled paper in it?  Do you eat fast food?
>Would you rather spend a Saturday afternoon in a shopping maul or in a
>forest?
>
I have spend last week in my organic grown garden, displacing some six m3
of sand, planting lots of flowers and vegetables and I did spend some time
after my chlor-alkali PVC housed computer using chlor-alkali purified
silicon chips!

Ferdinand.Engelbeen
organic grown chlor-alkali worker

Ferdinand.Engelbeen@ping.be