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What an amazingly good idea from NOAA! While other countries talk, the U.S. does something with real impact.
1 posted on 09/04/2002 9:35:28 AM PDT by cogitator
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What an amazingly good idea from NOAA!

What an amazingly bad choice of a name. It invokes the Clintons.

I don't think they meant to do that...

2 posted on 09/04/2002 9:38:46 AM PDT by hellinahandcart
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It's certainly a reasonable idea.

It must be admitted, BTW, that much of the credit for the U.S. environmental record (which is quite good) goes to the environmentalists of the mid-20th century. Without their campaigns for gov't pressure, one rather doubts that industry would have cleaned up on its own.

But it must also be noted that the only reason the cleanup happened at all is because we were/are rich enough to be able to afford it.

Of course, the really bad coastal pollution is not in the U.S., but in the 3rd world, and they don't have the wealth necessary to do anything about it.

Which implies big bucks from us to make it work.

5 posted on 09/04/2002 9:44:56 AM PDT by r9etb
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The reason it won't go forward in it's present form is that there are no provisions for punishing the Fighting Whitey's for being successful.
8 posted on 09/04/2002 10:49:44 AM PDT by Thebaddog
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