AW: [ RadSafe ] " Chernobyl benefit/harm"

[howard long]

Franz,
  May I take my tongue out of my cheek now? Dospedanya.
   
  The flourishing of life where LNT and anti-nucs predicted wasteland, does deserve publicity,
  
Howard Long
  
Franz Schönhofer <franz.schoenhofer at chello.at> wrote:
  Mike,

What I suspect is that Howard Long does not know, that the exclusion zone is
situated both in the Ukraine and Bjelorussia. He obviously does not know,
that these are two independent countries since the crash of the Sovjet-Union
and are clearly politically separated from Russia, that there are border
controls and Russians cannot travel anywhere in both Ukraine and Bjelorussia
to take land! Not to talk about the inherent fear about radiation - people
living in the exclusion zone despite of the ban are said to be the old ones,
who have no other choice and want to die at the place they lived all their
life long. 

The Ukrainian part of the contamination zone and its vicinity (rather this
large part of the Ukraine) is settled exclusively by Ukrainians, who are not
only distinct from Russians, but even have a different language. Howard
Longs comment seems to originate in the bad habit, to call the former
Sovjetunion "Russia" and the inhabitants "Russians". I do not know, how many
dozens of different ethnic groups and how many hundred languages existed in
the former Sovjetunion, but anybody interested may search on the internet
for it. 

This wrong perception of Howard Long would be in line with his comments on
radioprotection matters.....

Best regards,

Franz

Franz Schoenhofer, PhD
MinRat i.R.
Habicherg. 31/7
A-1160 Wien/Vienna
AUSTRIA


-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] Im Auftrag
von Brennan, Mike (DOH)
Gesendet: Freitag, 08. Juni 2007 21:30
An: Radsafe (E-mail)
Betreff: RE: [ RadSafe ] " Chernobyl benefit/harm"

Actually, I suspect that what would happen if the Ukrainian Government
tried that is the death toll would be in the thousands as people fought
over the best pieces, as people who "got there first" fought with people
who had lived there before, and as organized crime groups brought
organization to chaos by killing anyone who opposed them. 

If Russians tried to get involved in the land grab I suspect there would
be a war.

The area exclusion area around Chernobyl could vanish from the Earth on
not decrease the amount of land in the Ukraine by a detectable amount.
That land not being used by people has little impact on the economic
health of the region. Corruption within the government is a bigger
problem than a largish radioactive parkland. 




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