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9. Here is some irony for you:
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 03:39 PM
Mar 2014

Back in the early years of the Clinton Administration, the Precautionary Principle was contained in legislation that industry felt would "hamper" their ability to "help" the population of the USA by offering the industry total freedom regarding the pesticide manufacture, licensing process, and distribution.

The issue was highly contentious, and back then, we still had people in the House and the Senate who were not totally owned by Big Industry.

So in the Senate, this important piece of legislation came down to a tie vote. And in the US Senate, in order to avoid a tie vote, the Vice president of the USA is allowed to vote and break the tie.

So Al Gore, the supposed "Master of all things environmental" voted with industry and against the Precautionary Principle. Not only did he vote against the Precautionary Principle, many other decent items went down a black hole when Industry won that vote and defeated that legislation.

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