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US ---_-M a. Eb TRC A 3 on' SAY YS AN es yo. "A Family Tradition tor 1 27 Years" " CODY AIS Lge lr oh" PORT PERRY STAR - - Tuesday, February 16, 1993 - 11 Civ UmOT Yoasy NAN Letters to the editor Stubborn unwillingness to change To the Editor: Hold the celebrations, folks! Ruth Grier's move from one high level cabinet post to an- other does not necessarily mean that the "alternatives" of shipping garbage to Kirkland Lake - or incinerating it - will soon be under serious consider- ation. Spending millions on the required environmental assess- ment for the Kirkland Lake scheme would. merely divert funds badly needed to kick- start 3Rs initiatives all over the province (initiatives, by the way, that would mean jobs), while the law now forbids the incineration of municiple solid waste in Ontario. It is also true that these sup- posed "alternatives" would create more problems than they might solve. The Kirkland Lake "solution" is a great one - if shipping trash all over the prov- ince, then stashing it right over top of a major aquifer (i.e. water source) seems wise. Hmm.... Incineration is a super idea 'too, provided that building hor- rendously expensive incinera- tors which spew carcinogenic toxins plus greenhouse gases and require the landfilling of toxic ash - in some poor soul's backyard - strikes us as some kind of improvement over what We have been doing. Maybe not, eh? It has occurred to me that pretty well all our environmen- tal problems boil down to this one apparently incurable hu- man defect: our stubborn un- willingness to change. Even the most. shocking predictions de- livered by leading scientists fail to make us flinch - let alone con- template altering our lifestyles. Two months ago, the United Nations Environment Program report, in commenting on the global state of the environment, stated "the pace of destruction has speeded up." As we trash the seas, forests, fresh water, and wildlife, we are destroying "the working parts of our bio- sphere on which all life de- pends." The report concluded "It is no exaggeration to say that the ability of the biosphere to continue to support human life is now in question." Yet this barely even make the news. Strange creatures, we human beings. We can get hundreds of thousands of people hysterical over a Superbowl game, and @ PARA FPAINIS & COATINGS there never seems to be any dif- ficulty whatsoever finding men to fight wars over meaningless differences of race, religion or culture. Meanwhile, this planet, and the human race along with it are going down the tubes. The "normal" response to this, it would seem, 1s to sit back and take in the show - without offer- ing up so much as a whimper. And the people like me - the ones who are not content to watch idly while our species commits mass suicide - are con- sidered oddballs. 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