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JI>In ca.environment dlow@ppg01.sc.hp.com (Danny Low) said:
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JI>>When it comes
JI>>to environmental destruction, the West came no where near what the
JI>Communist
JI>>did in Eastern Europe and Russia. When it comes to fighting environmental

JI>>destruction the West is 50 years ahead of not only the Communist but the
JI>new
JI>>democratic Russians. Pollution of the Caspian Sea still continues
JI>unchecked
JI>>today.
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JI>This is true. We have certainly shown a great deal more intellegence and
JI>forsight in our attempts to improve on the environment than many countries.
JI>Although the United States is perhaps not the best at these things (I think
JI>maybe Holland and New Zealand are better), we have done alot. We should be
JI>proud of these efforts and try to build on them. Environmental wellbeing is
JI>something which is a benefit to



You would be surprised...Ever considered how many nuclear bombs you
people have "tested" in other countries?  You have destroyed Micronesia.
 It was once a beautiful place.  Now there is so much fall out from the
fifty or so years of american nuclear bombardment that the islands now
resemble  a shadow of what they used to be.  Ever wondered how many oil
spills were caused by your peoples unending quest for more and more oil
(and money and wasted energy)?  Consider the Exxon Valdez...I know that
that's nothing compared to the Russian Oil line explosion in the Arctic,
but consider how long your own alaskan pipeline is and what might happen
if it were to explode?  Don't beleive the hype that americans are far
superior in any way to everybody else.  How much land are has your
government designated as park lands?  Compare that to other countries
and you'll find that even Sweden, a country much smaller than yours, has
designated more land towards nature than america has, given the fact
that Sweden is a much smaller nation.  Take for example Niagara Falls.
Compare Niagara Falls New York to Niagara Falls Canada.  The Canadian
government has designated the entire region to be park land, some of
which can be used legally as commercial lands.  The place is green all
over.  Unfortunately so is the water.  This is where the americans come
in.  America decided that it would build industrial sites along the
Niagara River and in that region.  Not only does the infamous Love Canal
are exist in the american Niagara region, but so do at least 50 or so
known chemical and toxic waste sites built right along the river.  You
people are responsible for dumping huge amounts of Dioxin into the
Niagra, which flows into Lake Ontario...Drinking water for about 6
million people on the Canadian side, countless more on your side.  And
dioxin isn't even the start.  There are large amounts of mercury and
lead.  Although Canada, more specifically, Toronto, is also responsible
for some of the pollution in Lake Ontario, science has shown us that
america dumps at least 75 percent of all chemical and toxic pollution in
lake Ontario into the lake.  And you consider yourselves to be much more
intelligent?  Wake up and drink Lake Ontario water.

JMB