Re: Fear, etc.

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

Brian said:

> what is so wrong about expending a small effort educating and demonstrating
> to a skeptical (or worse) person that their concerns and fears are
> unfounded?  

Brian, I agree, and that is why I said in my initial post that we 
need to be educating the public, the media etc. Our job is to not 
only protect, but to educate. Having said that, performing 
unnecessary surveys, sampling ground deposition .. that's not 
educating. That is taking actions simply to placate fear. And I 
firmly believe that when we do take these totally unnecessary 
surveys, does the public believe us? Hell no!!  They will believe the 
Greenpeace numbers of fantasy. So what have we gained? We are now 
viewed as providing the public false information, and are part of an 
ongoing conspiracy to cover up a real serious accident, no matter 
what really happened.

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