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From: mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.med
Subject: More NRDC Propaganda on TV
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Date: 15 Apr 89 01:11:23 GMT
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Today (4/14/89) on the TODAY show (NBC) a guest from the Natural Resources
Defense Council launched the latest campaign, the fight against ozone
pollution.

Do I mean "depletion of the ozone layer"?  Nope.  Ozone pollution of the
lower atmosphere.

David Hawkins from the NRDC claims ozone "rots nylon and rubber" and "does
the same thing to the inside of your lungs".  Granted, ozone is not a nice
gas to inhale.  And it does contribute to the decomposition of rubber.
But haven't these people got anything better to do with their time?

Why does the NRDC attack ozone production, when there are far more important
problems with the atmosphere, like the general production of all pollutants
related to combustion?

Why does the NRDC attack insignificant amounts of Alar in apples, when
there are real dangers in the food supply, like aflatoxin and EDB?

Why?  In industry it's called "market niche".  Everybody else in the
ecology biz is going after the big ones.  For a small group to make big bucks,
they have to find a market which isn't taken, then exploit the hell out
of it.  So they go out and find a niche pollutant and an orphan pesticide
residue, they call up all their movie-star friends, and they plug into
the mass-media machine.

Want to help save the world from Alar and ozone?  Step right up and open
your checkbook.  For some reason, we'll find it necessary to spend all your
money in New York and Washington DC on our expensive, new, environmentally-
sound offices.  (I saw a news story a few days ago about the New York office.
Oy!  Ed Koch should have such a nice office.)

Meanwhile, who protects the American public from the NRDC.