Anti-chemical environmental activists rarely consider the consequences of their policies. They demonize chemicals that have been used safely for decades and advance chemical bans based on weak science without considering whether the replacement products will be any safer.
This is why it is particularly ironic that they are now complaining about the replacement chemical for bisphenol A (BPA), which greens have pressed government to ban. BPA is used to make hard, clear plastics and resins that line food cans among other things. Suddenly, greens are up in arms because new clear plastics are made with an alternative product to BPA called bisphenol S (BPS). “[S]wapping out BPA for BPS may have meant ‘jumping from the frying pan to the fire,’” reads an article on CommonDreams.org. But the greens only have themselves to blame.
Last year, some activists pointed out that BPS may be a more potent “endocrine disrupter” and that the human body does not metabolize BPS as easily as it does for BPA. Now a research paper on the topic has appeared in Environmental Health Perspectives. To Read More…..
My Take - There is one answer to all of this that is so important to understanding the green movement's mentality and the government’s actions. The Precautionary Principle (PP)! It is an irrational zero risk policy that promotes irrational thinking demanding safety standards "beyond those stringent requirements that already provided a margin of safety against hazards which research has not yet identified, in order to protect adverse effects in the most susceptible individuals in the population and then adding and extra margin of safety to protect against any yet 'undiscovered health effects”! Everything is based on a rationale of zero risk as a philosophy propounded by Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. She didn’t start the thinking on this, and in point of fact, none of her work was original or unique within the green movement, but it was her writing that made it all so popular that in Europe, where it started, the Precautionary Principle is written into law, and in the U.S. it has now become an unwritten hidden official practice.
The prevalence of the Precautionary Principle in practice or law is Carson’s true legacy. As a result there is nothing that can make the greenies happy. They are an intellectually doomed group that would be completely at home with the ancient nature worshipping Druids. They are intellectually doomed becuase they are only capable of finding fault, even when fault doesn't exist. That is why they need the PP as a basic tenant of their secular religion. Environmentalism!
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