Dioxins intresting article.

[cooolandrew]

Check this out, very intresting. Link...

http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/reg19n2h.html

[fasttense]

1. This is written by the Cato Institute

You know the "free market" people. Of course they are going to bash any book that might recommend restraining corporations in favor of protecting our planet. The only thing interesting about the review is they are against the book "Dying from Dioxin: A Citizen's Guide to Reclaiming Our Health and Rebuilding Democracy". So you know it must have some good information if the CATO Institute is against it.

[Buzz Clik]

2. I was surprised to see a Cato publication posted without comment.

I was hoping that someone had infiltrated Cato that would not take an unblinking stand that supports industry. It didn't happen.

This publication reads just like Bjorn Lomborg's The Skeptical Environmentalist, and it has the same positive and negative attributes. A trained reader of this material will recognize the deceit and misdirection instantly. The untrained reader will be left to their own devices. Needless to say, readers of Cato will likely be untrained with a heavy dose of despise for environmental regulation, and they will find great comfort in this article.

[LiberalEsto]

3. Once dioxin gets into the environment & food chain

it is impossible to remove. The molecules are very large and unwieldy, and they don't biodegrade, to the best of my knowledge.

The Hudson River bottom is one place that is loaded with dioxin. Dioxin gets absorbed by bottom feeders and works its way up the food chain and ends up in human fat cells. Where it stays.

These Cato people are fools. They have been utterly brainwashed into supporting corporations, so the corporations can do whatever they want and rake in huge profits without taking responsibility for the actual costs of their processes.

What gets me is that ultimately these fools breathe the same air, drink the same water, and eat the same food everybody else does. Their children and grandchildren will inherit the same damaged environment that our own children will. Their descendants will likely curse them for their enabling of corporate environmental destruction.

[chelaque liberal]

4. Thank you!