On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mary Yugo wrote: > > Rossi views the mention of Petroldragon, a stupendously expensive and >> environmentally disastrous failure, >> >> > That is an absurd exaggeration. A thing like that can be cleaned up > without much difficulty or expense. A "stupendously expensive and > environmentally disastrous failure" would be something like the Deepwater > Horizon oil spill or the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster. > > Petroldragon was a minor, annoying, short term problem. > I'm sure it was minor for you -- you don't live there. For the people dealing with millions of pounds of toxic waste at a cost of millions of dollars, it was far from trivial. See for example: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fit.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPetroldragon By the way, do you always excuse outrageous neglect and/or criminality by pointing out the world's worst cases as counterpoint? Is Fukushima somehow an excuse for Petroldragon? Really?
