Re: risk

["Mark Robinowitz" <mrobinowitz@igc.apc.org>]

> Date:          Wed, 8 May 1996 08:02:43 +0200 (MET DST)
> To:            mrobinowitz@igc.apc.org
> From:          Ferdinand.Engelbeen@ping.be (Ferdinand Engelbeen)
> Subject:       Re: risk and Safe Drinking Water Act
> Cc:            dioxin-l@essential.org

> 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.


sure, the fungi secrete toxins 


but find ONE species of warm blooded creature that synthesizes natural 
organic chlorine compounds.  


If your industry was so safe, how come there is no petrochemical factory 
anywhere on Earth that is located in a wealthy community, or operates 
without chemical sewers and smokestacks?  If your effluent is so safe, why 
not keep 100% of it on site?

Sounds like you're full of effluent.