re to be or not to be a disaster in article qs aninnin charnel ecst csuchico edu dyoung ecst csuchico edu douglas young writes you should face the facts love canal was not and is not an environmental disaster nor even a problem nor is times beach and tmi and acid rain killing trees and not a problem would you move to three mile island i would imagine there is some cheap property available no because i don t like the weather back east however it would bother me not one bit to live in an equivalent area here by the way do you know what the extra exposure to radiation from tmi was the naturally occurring catastrophic events disasters that destroy property ie hurricanes tornados earthquakes do not usually leave toxic wastes that prevent people from re building their lives there the man made disasters oil spills toxic dumping radioactive waste dispersions cause death and make an area unliveable far beyond the initial event o k in the u s tell me about some of these deaths and some of these unliveable areas oh and if you manage to find some of these unliveable areas tell me what percentage of the total us land area they are hint the total waste produced by all nuclear reactors in the us can be safely stored in the area of three footbal fields there are actually people that still believe love canal was some kind of environmental disaster weird eh these opinions are mine and you can t have em but i ll rent em cheap
