text: The EPA is about to issue regulations on mercury emissions designed to kill utilities that rely on coal for power generation. I watch this stuff because it affects investment values, as in whether bonds will default. Or whether the economy will collapse. Do those guys at the EPA who power their computers with PEPCO electricity care about the lights go out?
  My opinion is that its all rhetoric. Of course, like any respectable doomsayer, you never do outright explicit predictions. Everything is a “might” or “may”. Second, it is always polite to point out in the beginning that you are not necessarily calling for the banning of a particular something that will…ahm sorry “may”…kill all our children. That you will leave up to the “experts” to decide. Its like saying “with all due respect”, before saying something disrespectful. She goes on about the “ignorant” people to whom this “potentially” deadly chemical that will…there I go again “may”…kill all birds, is entrusted to. But she never stops to consider the possibility that she may be ignorant too. The “property rights” argument is also entirely typical of the environmental knee-jerks. There’s nothing inherently wrong with the argument (other than the over embellished and often fictitious facts and fearmonegering). The problem is that environmentalists only apply this argument to things they are against. Anyone can apply such an argument to something they are against.
  Of course turning her into a boogeyman isn’t very constructive either. She’s entirely all too typical of the environmental knee-jerk doomsday reaction. Her problem is typical: there’s a limited, weak and unprovable evidence, leading to fear-mongering by “concerned” individuals who are only concerned about what “may” happen to out children/water/air/pets etc and so on and so forth, and for our own good some things just ought not to be left in the hands of the ignorant, but should be controlled better by the hands of the “experts” (of course only physicians and chemists working at a government laboratory can be entrusted to be experts). We saw this in all its glory with vaccines, and certainly we’re seeing it with AGW.
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