> Well, this kind of begs the question. I assume there aren't roadside
> bar-b-ques randomly scattered all over Alaska? The accumulate around
> hungry people. Dioxin is only a problem in the quantities in which it
> occurs because of people.
>
yeah - like cigarettes <wink> which have killed FAR more people than have
died from bio-accumulated chlorinated organics.
and don't dis "cost-benefit" analyses per se -- like any other tool, they
are as good/or as bad, as the data fed to them. there is much to be said for
DDT's prevention of malaria (by killing mosquitos) -- direct lives saved --
and little c-b analysis of "toxins" is based on actuarial data (like
insurance) but instead is hypothesis on top of safety factor on top of
hypothesis and "high dosage". don't get me wrong - we need to do analysis.
but we need to separate the policy part (what constitutes a safety factor,
which population do we protect for) from the scientific analysis. right now,
they are co-mingled, and as a result, bastardized, IMO.
See:
> And hence, trees in areas with high dioxin "by-production" are going to
> release more dioxin when burned,
>
lost me here -- trees don't bioacculate dioxin. it's attracted to fat ....
altho there is some research that suggests in the area of uncontrolled
municipal incineration (old data, since noncontrolled burns are a thing of
the past) dioxin gets into dirt/soil and makes its way up the food chain --
but it manifests in milk, butter, steak -- *fat* products.
> Right now, somewhere down the street here in washington, I'm sure
> someone else is also studying the astonishing fact that humans breathing
> are the primary cause of global warming, because the process produces
> more CO2 than anything else on the planet.
>
gosh -- i thought that distinction belonged to cows & methane <g>
kathy
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