Modern Luddite

Any Suggestions: The News Friday Dec 5/2014

I have a suggestion Cherryl maybe you could give us your expert opinion on the hundreds if not thousands of other chemicals and other deadly toxins released in the burning and recovery of fossil fuels, maybe you could enlighten us of the benign inconsequential global affects of say Sulfur Dioxide which just one supertanker produces 5000 tons a year, and 16 super tankers produce more pollution than all the cars in the world and acidify our oceans, create acid rain, pollute our fresh water supplies and the very air we breath, not to mention damage our and our childrens health. Maybe you could give us your expert opinion about some of the other deadly byproducts of the fossil fuel industry such as Benzene, Nitrogen Oxides, Pet Coke, Formaldehyde, Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH), Mercury, Silica, Radon, Hydrofluoric acid(HF) Hydrogen Fluoride, to name a few of the more deadly ones. You continue to deny or trivialize the deadly affects this old fossil fuel technology dumps on the earth every minute of every day as though there is no other options, with flippant comments like going back to pre-industrial times. 

The simple irrefutable truth is that 97 percent of actual climate scientists agree that climate warming trends over the last century are very likely due to human activity but you chose to ignore the obvious and chose to not take the only sensible path out of this clear and present danger to life on this fragile planet.

I read your letters and it is quite clear the only degrees you have are in trickle down economics 101 and a masters degree in ultra right-wing double speak, thanks but I think I will trust and listen to the 97 percent instead of a modern Luddite.

Like Daniel Patrick Moynihan says Cherryl "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts”.