Both science and technology have their historical roots in the Christian dogma of man's rightful mastery over nature, said Krug, quoting Paul Ehrlich. Nevertheless, the environmentalist assumptions are expressed in scientific language. Many scientists speaking at the DDP meeting showed that those assumptions are often exactly backwards. Every hit by a particle of radiation can cause a cancer. The widely publicized experiments with low-dose radiation in human subjects, portrayed as atrocities by the media, were either harmless or beneficial, according to Dr. Howard Maccabee.
Carbon dioxide is a pollutant.
Actually, CO 2 is the basic building block for all life. Sherwood Idso reviewed extensive experimental evidence that enriching the atmosphere in CO 2 stimulates plant growth while decreasing water requirements. South is always down. Therefore, designers of the Central Arizona Project assumed that water would run one-half mile uphill to Tucson, observed Dr. Jay Lehr. Higher atmospheric CO 2 causes global warming.