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Originally Posted by graciegirl
And whose fanny was seated in the Governor's seat when this all began? Who knows????? We have to have industry. It is as important to all of us as MONEY which in itself is NOT a bad word. I am a little tired of those saying AHA to everything. Industry has halved poverty and starvation since 1990. It also sends plumes of bad stuff into the atmosphere. We gotta eat. We gotta have people manufacturing stuff.
And the radioactive stuff. It appears to be quite minimal...see here; "The pond at the old Piney Point phosphate mine sits in a stack of phosphogypsum, a waste product from manufacturing fertilizer that is radioactive. It contains small amounts of naturally occurring radium and uranium."
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"Industry has halved poverty and starvation since 1990" That is probably WORLDWIDE starvation. In the US before WW2 most families lived on farms and usually had plenty to eat. They could even shoot plentiful game, or have fished. India and China and other 3rd world countries had populations too large for their natural resources. American agriculture methods of machines and fertilizers used in foreign countries may have alleviated much WORLDWIDE hunger around 1990. The US had many advantages.