ELEMENTAL POLITICS

Just how difficult it is going to be for Americans to implement Greenpeace's world-wide totalitarian agenda is indicated in the chapter by W. Fenical entitled "Natural Halogenated Organics'', Marine Organic Chemistry, Elsevier p 375 (1981). He reports that there were, in 1981, about 400 known organohalogenated compounds (primarily bromine and chlorine) produced by marine organisms. These are excreted into the sea and are also stored at levels of approximately 5 to 6% of the dry weight of marine plants and animals.

Moreover, as cited by Environment Betrayed, PO Box 1161, Winona, MN 55987, J. S. Pallister et al. EOS supplement for Fall 1983 meeting pp 667-668 and T. M. Gerlach pp 105-106 of the same EOS supplement report that Mount Pinatubo injected 2 million tons of chlorine into the stratosphere in one day. See also Z. Jaworowski, 21st Century Research Communications p 6 Spring issue (1993).

The Wall Street Journal, February 2, 1994 p B5 reports that Rick Hind, legislative director of the Greenpeace toxics campaign said, "This is the first time we've been able to give unqualified praise to the administration since they took office'' while commenting on a new EPA anti-chlorine offensive which includes a new task force to study and then restrict or prohibit chlorine and chlorine compounds as "appropriate.'' CFCs were just a beginning skirmish. With Clinton-Gore support, the chlorine witchhunt will soon become a major assault against American industry.