"Chuck Sherwood" wrote in message
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I suggest you read about three-mile island and Chernobl.
I wound rather rather more to a farm and cut my own wood for heat
than build a potentail time bomb that could kill the entire world
with one accident.



Death toll from Chernobyl so far about 41. The death toll from Three Mile
Island, 0.

Now compare farming:

Farmers lead healthy lives but, farming is dangerous. Farmers smoke less,
drink less, and are more active than most other adults. Their calorie intake
and cholesterol percentage is higher but their death rate from coronary
artery heart disease is 10% lower than matched contemporaries. Each year,
four of every 10,000 agricultural workers (an average of 700 people per year
in the United States) are killed and 140,000 disabling accidents occur
especially in planting and harvest seasons. Agricultural workers are 8% of
the work force but sustain 29% of work fatalities.

http://www.vh.org/adult/patient/inte...accidents.html

Now consider coal: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/ma...chin-m16.shtml
(a US Coal industry report.)

Fatal accidents in the nation's coal mines dropped to an historic low of 27
in 2002, according to preliminary figures from the Mine Safety and Health
Administration (MSHA). Forty-two miners died in chargeable accidents in
2001, MSHA said.

The previous low fatality record for the coal industry was 29, set in 1998,
MSHA said. Powered haulage equipment accidents, the leading cause of
fatalities in the mines, contributed to seven deaths in coal mines last
year.



From: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/ma...chin-m16.shtml (the world
socialist web site)


Every year, gas explosions, cave-ins and mine flooding kill thousands of
miners who are driven by deepening poverty to risk their lives in China's
notoriously dangerous coal mining industry. According to China's State
Administration of Work Safety, 6,702 died in mining accidents in 2003, but
other sources put the number at 7,197.

This is a report that kind of ties it all in together:
http://www.ecolo.org/documents/docum...e_Cohen.en.htm

"The epidemiological evidence, however, seems fairly clear in indicating
that something like 30,000 deaths per year in U.S. result from air pollution
due to emissions from fossil fuel burning power plants."


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Roger Shoaf

About the time I had mastered getting the toothpaste back in the tube, then
they come up with this striped stuff.