Maelochs

It is all relative to the frame of reference. In terms of what that small community will do and is doing to that part of that river at this period of time ... i cannot think of any benefits. But there are three million children dying every year from diarrhea simply because we cannot provide clean water or cheap filtration.

Over time we are doing massive damage to the rest of the biosphere ... but i doubt we can kill all life on the planet. A shame we kill as much as we do for so little gain.

But ... everything changes, all the time. One death isn't a big thing out of billions of lives. One species lost isn't big deal in a million years. Ten thousand years of humans tearing up the planet won't mater in twenty thousand years ... so one community polluting one stretch of one river isn't a thing.

However, we can only change the stuff around us .... i don't know how to stop disease and starvation. I can fight a hazardous waste incinerator planned for the area, but I can't stop the production of hazardous waste.

Sometimes the best thing we can do is just talk with people around us ... protests and lobbying doesn't always matter, but just talking to people ... they see that rational intelligent people think about things and care about things that are different and in different ways .... strange ideas (like LCF) can come to seem normal ... I don't want to push people. We all have our paths to follow and by following or own paths we do the most good ... IMO.