Re: David, Mark, and Dr. Bill

[asagady@sojourn.com]

At 08:24 PM 10/4/96 -0400, P. Dines wrote:

[many cogent comments deleted]

>P.S.  It might be nice if those pro-chemical people watching this list and in
>the world at large might spend more time trying to openly understand why we're
>upset and the real reasons for concern, and act to drastically reduce the harm
>of their actions, vs. trying to defend and disempower our decisions to try to
>act to improve the situation.  Just a thought....


Gee...there is really  no chance of this happening, as near
as I can tell....  Dr.Bill and other industrial troglodytes (sp?) watching
this list have a serious affliction.... "chronic chemical
advocacy compulsive posting disorder"    Lot of this going
around .....  seems to be pandemic with  "Internet trendy"  Washington DC
public relations firms these days....  these poor folks just can't 
help it and always have to have the last word..  and they've got to
respond to everything!!!!   Must be some Freudian reason for this....

.....  no use fighting 'em....just ignoring them is probably the best
strategy.....
after all, they are probably getting about $150+/hour to do this 
stuff and the more we "engage," the more they can justify their
fees/salaries/contracts.....  it is kind of like nicotine addiction....
powerful stuff they're "on".....

For the paper industry "beasts," excessive exposure to 
reduced sulfur compounds and chlorine dioxide has probably
trashed the olfactory nerves of these paper industry folks so they are
unable  to  determine that the fish downstream of their plants stink  (fish
taint from phenolic compounds is the reason) and that the
air in many pulp mill towns stinks too from the hundreds of bizarre 
compounds discharged by pulping and bleaching operations..