Shipbreaking in England
I had
blogged about this earlier.
Now Robert Hinkley at
SemiSkimmed points to some environmental flip/flopping going on...
Against:
From the
BBC:
bq.
'Ghost fleet' row heads to court
Environmental campaigners are taking legal action over a fleet of rusting US navy vessels heading to the UK for wrecking.
For:
From the
BBC
bq.
Call to break up ships in the UK
Greenpeace has called for British ships to be scrapped in the UK to stop them ending up in the developing world.
If the enviro's had used their little grey cells a bit back in November, this would never have been an issue. I do not know the shipyard at Hartlepool but I would imagine that it is well equipped to deal with asbestos, PCBs and all of the other nasty stuff that was used in shipbuilding back in the 1940's. Much better than the beaches of India.
The enviros need to learn to see the big picture. NIMBY and BANANA is OK but the stuff will happen somewhere and it's a lot better to have it happen under close observation than with zero checks and balances. It may not impact your water table but the
whole ... entire ... purpose of environmentalism is to vouchsafe
everybody's environment, not just your own.
That is why the Kyoto protocol is such an incalculably bad bit of thinking.
UPDATE: Jennifer brought to my attention that the Kyoto protocol was not based on thinking.
The use of the word "thinking" assumes that mental powers are at work -- the people who drafted the protocol were bereft of these facilities and so the word "thinking" should not really be used. Cogitation, the scent of burnt wood-smoke issuing from the ears, a furrowing of the brow and silent moving of the lips -- these febrile efforts constitute thinking.
Kyoto has none of these advantages -- it is political...
Posted by DaveH at March 23, 2004 8:37 PM