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Originally posted by BobF:
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You are free to give more credence to a view that is obviously more of a conspiracy theory than an analysis, but nothing is ever that simple. But if you can just set that mindset aside for long enough to consider that each one of those bits of "suspicious evidence" you raise could just as easily have very simple and far less malign explanations. If those simpler explanations are correct then your concerns are just that much less worrying. It makes the world a lot more comprehensible place, and living in it a lot less terror inducing. always because somebody is directly to blame for it happening. We are not perfect and even our best efforts are flawed. I agree that if we look around the world we don't have to look far to see incompetence and poor decision making, but it is not universal. do think that algal blooms are a bad thing, and most people do recognise that is our own human activities that have caused them, largely by how we farm. It is clear that the phosphorus that causes those algal blooms largely comes from the run-off from over-fertilising agricultural land, and that makes our widespread short-term-view farming practices the "bad thing" that actually has to be dealt with. Because as well as it being an expensive waste of precious resources, it is destructive to our own land and to the earth as a whole. Not dealing with the problem is a case of not dealing with short-sighted stupidity by a smaller group of self-interested people who don't actually give enough of a damn, so long as they personally make money. Most people do know that we have to take action, and most holders of PET know that Phoslock is a viable solution to the problem even if only in the shorter term. I have no doubt that all the directors and board of PET also are there primarily because they also think they are doing something right. When they don't get it quite right I am sure they know it along with the rest of us.
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Ok, thanks. But..so, here is the question then:
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