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y2k as enviro fiasco
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vladimir Z. Nuri)
Sun Nov 8 21:58:58 1998
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 98 18:38:17 -0800
From: "Vladimir Z. Nuri" <vznuri@netcom.com>
Reply-To: "Vladimir Z. Nuri" <vznuri@netcom.com>
Subject: THE GREATEST ENVIRONMENTAL THREAT IN HISTORY: Y2K /Embedded processors control pollutants, poisons, or toxic substances
THE GREATEST ENVIRONMENTAL THREAT IN HISTORY: Y2K
Embedded processors control countless industrial processes that produce or use
pollutants, poisons, or toxic substances.
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In the Fall '98 issue of Earth Island Journal, an article reveals the prospect
of failing embedded processors which control pollutants, poisons, or toxic
substances.
EIJ: The April issue of *World Oil Magazine* estimates that
"the average oil and gas firm, starting today, can expect to remediate less than
30% of the overall potential failure points in the production environment.
"This reality shifts the focus of the solution (of Y2K) away from trying to fix
the problem, to planning strategies that would minimize potential damage and
mitigate potential safety hazards."
EIJ says that the cold, harsh realization that the embedded processor pro,blem
is not going to get fixed is sinking in and the "environmental implications are
nothing short of staggering.
EIJ says that when the environmentalists realize what is happening they will go
"stark raving nuts" and want to shut everything down.
Faced with ubiquitous contamination of our water and soil, the environmentalists
will "insist on pulling the plug in the last few months of 1999 to prevent
soiling their communities and the world around them."
EIJ: We probably can't take the chance of massive, simulataneous, global
failures in environmentally sensitive systems.
EIJ: A quick scan up and down your community's waterways may reveal a factory
upstream that has the potential to contaminate your water supply if its embedded
systems or emissions monitoring systems fail.
...if you lose your water supply, all you community and family preparedness is
worthless, and you may find yourself a refugee, forced to leave your garden and
your careful preparations behind.
The same is true of those who live any of a number of chemical-intensive
manufacturing operations. Look upland and upwind, as well as upstream.
If the chemical or waste spill contaminates the farmland your counting on for a
local food supply, all your preparations may be for naught.
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Writers of this article are:
Jim Lord
http://www.SurviveY2K.com
and Cynthia Beal
EIJ URL
http://www.earthisland.org
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