Ann M. Martin says people should get a clean job instead of working at the new power plant near St. George (“Lungs trump jobs,” Forum, April 20). But since all jobs are tied to electricity, which is produced by coal or nuclear power plants, they are also connected to pollution. That is just the price we must pay for our modern civilization.

Without those jobs we would have nothing but economic depression, misery and hunger. I guess that it is all right, just so long as we have pristine, 100 percent totally clean air to satisfy a few idealistic, unreasonable individuals.

Instead of staying here and complaining, they should move to a nice, clean, unpolluted place like Mongolia's Gobi Desert where there are no jobs, water or food - but they'll have 100 percent pure, pristine air.

John L. Anderson

Salt Lake City