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Originally Posted by kennyc
Regardless of Ralph's warped take on the book, it was a landmark book which almost single-handedly started the environmental movement and all the good things that have come from it.
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And all the bad things. Lets be honest, there is an awful lot of absolutism in the environmental movement and some of the more extreme members of the movement really put the environment ahead of people (which logically is the most important reason to be for the environment in the first place).
Just to provide an example; you will probably find it impossible to find any method of power generation that is not opposed by some environmentalists. Wind turbines kill birds, hydro-power kills fish, the chemicals used to create solar cells create toxic waste, nuclear power (which even if you include the use of nuclear weapons has killed fewer people by far in the last 70 years than coal power) creates radioactive waste...
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Bill