Dear
HCN,
As I read the latest
issue (HCN, 9/02/02: EPA puts cleanup in local hands), I was
fascinated by the article relating the drinking of untreated lake
water by Christine Whitman and others. I was struck not only by the
ignorance of doing such a thing, but by the ironic similarity to an
incident in Edward Abbey’s fictional book Hayduke Lives. The scene
in the book has Utah Gov. Bishop Dudley Love beaming for the
cameras at a press conference, extolling the virtues of uranium
mining, and finally eating a chunk of radioactive carnotite while
loudly proclaiming “radiation is good for
you!”
Cheers!
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Drink up, it’s good for you!.
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