Quote Originally Posted by PoolDoc
Maybe that's been your experience, but mine has been quite different. The portion of environmentalists who are anti-chlorine has seemed to me neither small nor atypically extreme.

I'll offer this challenge to you: Try to find even TWO articles which are, overall, pro-chlorine and which are published anywhere on the net by any community, blog, or periodical which self-identifies as being 'environmentalist' in focus and values.
C'mon, Ben--that's a sucker bet and we both know it. The only people give a dang about chlorine in the environmental movement are those that worry about it. Others spend their time on hydrocarbons, water pollution, landfills, and smokestacks. In other words, all the writing about it is by those who CARE about it, and stay up nights worrying about it. Everyone else (which is most of them) have far, FAR bigger fish to fry. So they DON'T write about it--and why alienate part of your coalition? That's simply politics.

My mother's next door neighbor is one who worries about chlorine. But she also tossed out her stove because she doesn't believe food should be cooked. They live on raw fruits and vegetables, the children are VERY small for their age, they are being "home-schooled" (Hah! I doubt either can read--not to crack on home-schooling but the way THIS nut does it.) She's stunted their growth and their intellectual growth. To me, that's MY stereotypical view of an anti-chlorine fanatic.