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Show Balance past with future Dear Editor: Assuming Uinta Basin dwellers are similar to other locals who never visit their own tourist attractions, I would like to say their local dinosaur resources are great, especially to remind us that critters with only baseball sized brains existed for more than 100 million years and when they mysteriously disappeared left a useful legacy to us later inhabitants in coal, oil and scientific awe. May I suggest people of this area develop another tourist resource to ' balance the one-sided emphasis on the past. Take tourists to your presently secreted Uranium mines and mills. Show us tourists how the tailings from these activities are so difficult to isolate from the surroundings (because of wind and water erosion) that even though they contain only low level radioactive material they must be treated like high leveled rodwastes. Explain to us the cost of protecting ourselves from nuclear wastes for thousands of years versus the immediate im-mediate profits of nuclear electricity and weaponry. Try to convince us that the future is solely in the hands of a critter with a melon sized brain who in about one million years of existence has brought us to the brink of knowable extinction and is leaving a legacy of cancer and genetic damage for those in the future that may dig into our radioactive waste piles. Here's hoping thata.ll dinosaur lovers will soon develop regionally available clean energy sources such as solar for domestic water heating, warming and cooling houses, cooking, and distilling alcohol for fuel. Even if they should cost more, what is the price we're willing to pay for economic, and political independence? A Concerned Tourist, Charles Williams 3 Betty St. Ukiah, Calif. 95482 |