Fear Mongers and Demonizers Are Out In Force

SEE HERE Well we have to be afraid of something or other or the government won't be able to gin up the next big crisis to motivate the next big power grab. Plastic is pretty benign. The Green crowd don't like it because they say it is not "biodegradable" which is another way of saying it's pretty tough stuff and pretty permanent, like rocks. So what? There are lost of thing like that. Plastic actually can be burned so it's not nearly as non-biodegradable as rocks.

One of the problems with all the scares is that they are often motivated by the fact that there are poisons in our drinking water. That's true. Just about every chemical known to man is present almost everywhere at some concentration. The problem is that it makes headlines to say that there is ... oh arsenic ... in the water supply. The fact that it's actually at a lower level than occurs naturally for example isn't nearly as interesting. John Stossel points out how over the top most of this scare-mongering is. We're living longer. Cancer rates are flat. And the chicken littles of the world are running out of plausible things to scream about. Maybe they should get other jobs, something actually productive.