Douc COoLLins © get this straight ® BRIAN BALONEY has come out in favor of the environ- ment, Yes, this great mugwump, who cut the environment department’s budget after winning the fast election, has undergone another change of beast. There is to be more money for keeping Canada clean. Why this about-face? Because news about the environment tras boomed since the last election and Brian is out to embrace any bird who can utter a liberal yaffle. It wouldn't surprise me if he offered free tennis shoes to little old kadies. Surprising though it may he, I too am for clean living. { have no more desire to wake up dead from poisoned lungs than you do. But Baloney’s move is another plate of hypocrisy, and from David Suzuki on down, most professional en- vironmentalists are a pain in the W. hear daily that the oceans are dying; that the atmosphere is poisoned; that there’s a hole in the sky over Antarctica into which radiation is pouring....”’ Pick up almost any newspaper, watch almost any TV news, and you will sec small bunches of fa- natical tree-huggers at work. Gov- ernments quail before them. That’s what happened last year on South Moresby. It happened again the other day on Strathcona Park. Why? Because the media are part of the same pack, whether in- tentionally or not, It is in the nature of news, you see, that news people go with activists and pro- testers, and the loonier the better. Thus we saw White Swan (Svend You're Pregnant And Need Support: | GIRTHRIGHT| B 229 Lonstale B North vancouver In Vancouver Call : 687-7223 : Robinson, M.P.) wearing woad on his pallid features up at Moresby and wiggling around like a dying duck. Hf you listen to the doonrsayers, this earth hasn't got long to go. Only last week, Maclean's cover story was “Our Threatened Pianet.”’ We hear daily that the oceans are dying; thal the atmosphere is poisoned; that there's a hole in the sky over Antarctica into which radiation is pouring: that cancer is rampant because of chemicals manufactured by crazy capitalists. But a different perspective comes from U.S. Atomic Energy Commission chairwoman Dixy Lee Ray in an article published in Im- primis magazine, (Imprimis is published by Hillsdale College, Michigan, which is dedicated to teaching its students to think.) As Mrs. Ray puts it: “Warnings that in the past came from the pulpit and called for eternal punishment in the sulfurous fires of hell have been replaced by equally dire predic- tions that come from alarmist en- vironmentalists who call for spen- ding billions of dollars to avoid doom from the sulfurous effluents of industry."’ There is obviously reason for taking care, but: “The total of carcinogenic substances targeted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, including chemicals in the workplace, in the environment, in food additives and in industrial products cause fewer than eight per cent of all cancer deaths in America... “Moreover, a proper look at cancer statistics shows that aside from a sharp inerease in bang cancer caused by smoking, there have been no significant increases in the rate at which people dic from any of the common forms of cancer over the past 50 years. In fact, there have been significant decreases in some types of cancer, e.g. stomach cancer."” Remember the media panic in North America overt’ + Chernobyl nuclear power plant failure in the USSR? When radioactivity from that source reached the U.S., states Mrs. Ray, “the media talked about the number of picocuries in the high clouds without ever explain- ing that one picocurie is one part per (rillion, and that to receive from that Chernobyl cloud as much radioactivity as a patient would get in a diagnostic test for thyroid problems, a person would have to drink 63,000 galions of ‘radioactive’ rainwater.’’ Scare follows scare. That's because the media have little time and frequently no inclination to sort things out. j1’s also because some scientists are more anxious to get their names in the papers (han to be scientific — like Dr. Ernest Ster- nglass, says Mrs. Ray, who wrote in 1969 that all the children in the U.S. would die as a result of fallout from nuclear tests, Yet his opinions are still sought. The public will remain unin- formed about these things until the media stop quoting charlatans and quacks, and until respected scien- tists speak up, she wrote ‘ PERSONAL BANKRUPTCY... tequires protessional help. “FREE” copy of our booklet, “ASSIGNMENT IN BANKRUPTCY” Available Upon Request 291-9151 EVANCIC PERRAULT ROBERTSON LTD. TRUSTEE IN BANKRUPTCY (Across the 2nd Nanows Bndge at Brentwood Mail at Willingdon Ave. & Lougheed Hwy. 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