[ExI] Cephalization, proles--Where is government going?

Mirco Romanato painlord2k at libero.it
Sun May 22 19:45:18 UTC 2011


Il 22/05/2011 04:24, Richard Loosemore ha scritto:

> But you have to look at the technology:  if we outlawed these things
> they woudl not be able to use hydraulic fracturing at all, because they
> would then be taking whole rivers, filling them with (undisclosed)
> poisons, sending them underground to do the fracking, then bringing them
> up and ...... putting them WHERE?

> There would be no place for them to go.  They could not store them in
> plastic bottles.

> So, outlawing these problems is, ipso facto, equivalent to outlawing
> fracking itself.

I think this is simply false.

If you outlaw fracking you are not allowed to fracking.
If you outlaw dumping water with poisonous contaminants they could find
a way to frack without the poisons or decontaminate the water after the use.

Do you ever read Cesare Beccaria? False Ideas of Utility?

Mirco



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