People are idiots. Evidence to support the proposition can be found in the medieval frenzy over “witches,” the panic induced by Orson Welles’ 1939 “War of the Worlds” broadcast, and the hysteria attendant to environmentalist rantings.
No sane person wants to live next to a nuclear waste dump. No sane person wants to live atop a nuclear waste storage site. No sane person wants to drink water contaminated by nuclear waste.
The process to license a nuclear waste storage site must be meticulous. Evidence and reasoning must be well documented and clear. Hysteria and lies must be avoided at all cost.
So what do we get from the left? Hysteria, lies and distortions.
It has been asserted that Envirocare seeks to handle “high-level” waste. This is, quite simply, a lie. Even anti Envirocare lobbying group Heal Utah admits that Envirocare seeks a license for “low-level” waste.
If the case against the company is so clear, why do its opponents need to resort to such palpable and easily countered lies? And if the opponents of Envirocare are willing to lie so blatantly, what other lies have they told?
How about the lie that “Envirocare is pushing to expose Utahns to radioactive waste?” So, according to opponents of the company, Envirocare is deliberately seeking to poison Utahns, is intentionally planning to contaminate our water, is with malice aforethought seeking to spray schoolchildren with strontium-90, is with the maniacal glee of a cartoon supervillain conspiring to bury spent control rods underneath people’s homes.
What planet do leftists live on? This kind of fevered delusion is normally limited to the “Elvis was kidnapped by Klingons” crowd. It is one thing to say that accidental exposure can be dangerous, but it is quite another to charge a company with being a criminal organization that seeks to kill people, that wants to kill people, that is inventing new ways to kill people.
Heal Utah, in its attempts to demonize Envirocare, also spouts inane gibberish: “Most scientists today believe there is no safe dose of radiation.” Really? No safe dose of radiation?
Take a moment to look out the window. If it’s a reasonably uncloudy day, you might spy a giant yellowish thing scientists like to call Sol or “the sun.”
This stellar object is a giant fusion nuclear reactor that pours out unimaginable quantities of radiation and, by the way, makes life on Earth possible.
Every single time you step outside during the day, you are being bathed with radiation-radiation which can cause skin cancer.
Ever warm up food in a microwave? Know what makes that food warm? Radiation. Ever listen to the radio or watch television? TV signals and radio waves are forms of radiation. Ever use a cell phone? You are sending and receiving radiation. Ever turn on a light bulb or use a flashlight? Both emit radiation.
If no level of radiation is safe, then no one should be given a CT scan, MRI or X-ray, ever. According to these environmentalists, your doctor is trying to kill you, just like Envirocare.
Radiation is around us all the time. It if wasn’t, we couldn’t see. Light-like that emitted by TV screens and computer monitors-is a form of radiation.
“No safe dose of radiation?” The fool ignorant enough to advance that claim should be sentenced to 200 hours of community service, retaking high school physics courses. There are plenty of forms of radiation which are completely harmless.
Intellectually, the opponents of Envirocare are 98-pound weaklings. They lie about basic facts, engage in junk science and spread hysteria.
Envirocare may be a bad company. However, the opponents of the company have done nothing to establish this.
Instead of building a case, they engage in hysterics, distortions and lies. The number of factual errors in their case is so overwhelming as to be unbelievable. In a debate pertaining to as serious an issue as this, the public deserves better than to be harangued by idiots.
