Quote of the Day

I had an experience in my own life with chemical exposure in which there was no recourse.

Obviously, the issue is a real sore spot for me.

If you murder an individual person for profit you get life or the death penalty.  If a company is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of people over the course of, say a decade, and another few thousand cancer deaths because of a "cost/benefit analysis...even if there's proven negligence, the most that happens is a civil fine or a civil dollar judgement.

Individuals who actually make the decisions that cause death and disablement for profit need to be held criminally liable for the consequences.

Pollution, in general, is a kind of WMD that industry unleashes on all of us.  A kind of slow motion terrorism for profit.  Yet if one nutjob releases a bit of anthrax and a few people die; the whole nation becomes hysterical.....meanwhile hundreds of thousands of Americans die (sooner than they otherwise would have) every bleeping year as a "downstream" product of toxins in our environment, food, air, water, and workplaces.

I bet that the billions it would cost to have a clean environment would (eventually) be more than off set by the billions it would save in medical expenses and the economic value of more productive lives (not to mention higher IQ's in whole cross-sections of our children.)

Glad my little house is removed from that.

Knew they were a mistake as they were going up.  Like Nick, I too remember what was there.  Not pretty or healthy.

We won't mention mercury.

XT

Here's some good bits of video reporting of various lead issues/problems in NJ....  http://www.njn.net/c...