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“Gassy Wells” isn’t a pollution problem, it’s a problem with the water table interacting with a natural gas pool. The problem with the modern environmental activists is that they go far beyond what is reasonable, or even safe, into Gaea worship. Listening to these people, humans (including themselves) are a plague – no matter what the numbers – and there is no reasonable compromise. It’s one thing to clean up Lake Washington or Lake Erie; it’s another to kill off the farming industry in central California (see the postings by Victor Davis Hanson) to supposedly protect a smelt that, it turns out, doesn’t really need protecting.