Posted on 03/14/2005 7:12:17 AM PST by dead
As they say, it offers the most beautiful view in Paris, because it is the only place in Paris from which you cannot see the Tower of Montparnasse.
"A powerful carcinogenic, it is considered responsible for about 4000 deaths a year in France."
I think this is a lot of BS...I am 60..I grew up with Asbestos all around me in school and other buildings.
I have never known it to kill anyone, or make them sick, other then reported disease with asbestos workers in mills that made asbestos products.
Too much of anything will kill you.
I would not be the least bit worried about walking in a building full of asbestos.
I hate to bring this up, but were there any substantive findings to the rumors of asbestos in the WTC?
I don’t think there were rumors. There were facts.
Up until a certain floor, the girders were fireproofed with asbestos. Then, asbestos was outlawed, and the remaining floors were fireproofed with other substances.
I believe some people speculated that the reason the buildings failed was the lack of asbestos on those upper floors.
From what I understand, and I barely remember, is that one reason the floors collapsed so quickly, was that there wasn't enough asbestos. Excuse my lack of knowledge, but from what I understand, the Towers had too little asbestos.
"the lawyer for the unions representing the building's employees"
It's a lawyers disease not a health issue!
30-40 years ago I breathed hundreds of pounds of dry asbestos when we were mixing 1 quart of dry asbestos per sack of cement to make it pump and after that "gun cement" contained 4% asbestos mixed in and i've never had a lung or breathing problem.
I've received hundreds of comp claims for asbestos and don't know of one that was associated with a health problem. They were all filed within 3 months of a workers filing for retirement and were sent to see the union lawyer who filed the claims.
I'm sure there are a minority of people that are affected by it just as there are a minority affected by any other element or food that they might consume.
Building is the ugliest peace of RE in Paris a real scourge on an otherwise beautiful urban landscape. It is a sad reminder of the arrogance of unchecked urban developement.
Could we maybe arrange for our highly experienced asbestos lawyers to go to France on a humanitarian mission and help out? (Get them out of the US)
I visited the observation deck of the Montparnasse Tower in 1983 (you're right - what a view!). Now I want to know whom to sue for exposure to that life-threatening asbestos. *cough*
This is just as off the wall as the metallic mercury hissy fit of last week: pure B.S.
But then if France wants to go for it, why not?
I visited the observation roof of the tower several times, and I don't really plan to stay awake nights...
Correction: France is a 'cancer trap'
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