SIGNIFICANCE OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN GREENWAY VOTE
(The contents were posted to Nextdoor, but taken down, labeled as Misinfo.). For grins: Google
misinfo “Rocky Flats”
More than 6800 people read my post about the Westminster vote on the Greenway. Some people appear fuzzy about the two sides of the Rocky Mountain Greenway issue. One side, willing to believe the DOE, the EPA, the CDPHE (all directly using international radiation standards and multiple sets of measurements) thinks it will improve non-motorized recreational facilities without seriously impacting the purpose of a wildlife refuge. The other side, ignorant of the intimate connection between radiation dose and health consequences because they’ve never been told about it by their leaders or favorite anti-nuclear websites, believe any plutonium is deadly and blame their illnesses on Rocky Flats. They would close down the Refuge and place it off-limits to humans because of radiation doses (at peak plutonium locations on the Refuge’s eastern edge) about 1000 times smaller than background radiation. This side wins most local political battles (but not those in municipalities with expertise such as Arvada and Boulder), but not federal ones. The Greenway results MATTER in the same way that local support for vaccination (or for anti-vax conspiracies) matters—it assesses whether a population actually trusts science, even if it does not understand it.