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Pollution
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Date: March 14, 2022, 4:26 pm
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I have changed the title and the front page background graphic
for two reasons:
1. My purpose, nearly a decade ago, of convincing most reality
based people everywhere that human civilization, in order to
stop and reverse (i.e getting back to 350 PPM of atmospheric
Carbon Dioxide is sine qua non) the multiple extinctions causing
biosphere degradation (i.e. the Sixth Mass Extinction Event now
upon us), must VERY rapidly transition away from Hydrocarbon
Energy Sources to Renewable Energy Sources, has been largely
achieved. I have been one small voice among many that have made
it clear that clean energy must be made available to everyone,
not just the wealthy, if we are to survive Catastrophic Climate
Change.
2. Celebrated social theorist and geographer David Harvey asked,
"Is there a way to capture what (to the detriment of human
civilization) is going on now"?
My answer: YES.
It's the SOCIAL DARWINISM, stupid!
No matter how much progress we make in cleaning up the
biosphere, as long as the egocentric, morally bankrupt, empathy
deficit disordered, Social Darwinist Ideology continues to be
embraced by TPTB, we do not have a snowball's chance in Hell of
surviving our Existential Crisis.
Social Darwinists believe that ethics based principles are
'limitations pretending to be virtues'. To them, ethics are
'feel good illusions' that humans invented to pretend our
species has empathy. To Social Darwinists, empathy is
irrefutable evidence of inexcusable weakness. To them, all who
are guided by ethics are deluded fools that should be eliminated
from the human 'apex predator' gene pool for the "good" of our
species.
The ideology of the Social Darwinist is indistinguishable from
the despicable ideology of NAZI Germany, clearly exemplified in
their brutally enforced morally bankrupt concentration camp law:
“Eat your own bread, and if you can, that of your neighbor.”
Social Darwinism is actually based, not on "survival of the
fittest", but on fear of tomorrow, a morally bankrupt excuse for
rejecting altruism and empathy and embracing a selfish greed
dominated hoarding modus vivendi.
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> "One who fears tomorrow does not offer his bread to others.
But one who is willing to divide his food with a stranger has
already shown himself capable of fellowship and faith, the two
things from which hope is born." -- Primo Levi, author of
Survival in Auschwitz
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Social Darwinism is the world view that spawned the profit over
people and planet neoliberal ideology. Neoliberal intellectuals
like Friedrich von Hayek, Ludwig von Mises and Milton Friedman
were all Social Darwinists long before they renamed
laissez-faire liberalism (that had been thoroughly discredited
by the Great Depression) with the catchy title of
"Neoliberalism".
The celebrated social theorist and geographer David Harvey
explains that neoliberal ideology serves the following
principle:
"There shall be no serious challenge to the absolute power of
money to rule absolutely. And that power is to be exercised with
one objective: Those possessed of money shall not only be
privileged to accumulate wealth endlessly at will, but they
shall have the right to inherit the earth, taking either direct
or indirect dominion, not only of the land and all the resources
and productive capacities that reside therein, but also assume
absolute command, directly or indirectly, over the labor and
creative capacities of all those others it needs. The rest of
humanity shall be deemed disposable."
"In human society, the amount of inequity is directly
proportional to the amount of iniquity." -- A. G. Gelbert
Sober Thinking requires that we all recognize the fact that a
society that is founded on altruism, not the "invisible hand" of
greed, is not optional if we wish to avoid exctinction.
Capitalism's "invisible hand" modus operandi is rooted in the
ideology of Social Darwinism.
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> “Capitalism is the astounding belief, that the most wickedest
of men, will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest
good of everyone.” — John Maynard Keynes
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The main purpose of the Sober Thinking Forum is to convince you,
regardless of your religious beliefs or lack of them, to soberly
think about these two quotes, embrace altruism, reject greed,
and convince as many people as you can that altruism is not
optional for human society:
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> "Look at our world, our country, our interactions with each
other……… this is not the mark of a healthy society, and if these
are the self-appointed leaders of this flaming meteor…..it’s
time to move on to new ideas and new people. Let’s relegate
these fools to history. They perpetuate a narrative that it is
right to behave in a strictly selfish, exploitative manner
towards all. We simply can’t survive it any longer. Things will
change because they have to." -- Kathleen Wallace
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"Technical knowledge of Carrying Capacity will not save us; Only
a Massive Increase in Caring Capacity will." -- A. G. Gelbert
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Where are you most likely to die from air pollution?
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Date: March 14, 2022, 4:30 pm
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[center]Here’s where you are most likely to die from air
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Carbon pollution is warming the earth, creating dirty weather.
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: March 14, 2022, 4:41 pm
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Agelbert LAMENT: To think that, instead of things being MUCH
WORSE now in 2022, how much better things would be if our
so-called "leaders" had not sat on their hands 9 years ago.
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Climate Reality 20.9K subscribers
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climate denial and put a price on carbon.
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PM2.5 from burning fossil fuels, wildfires, and agriculture
health complications including ...
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Date: March 14, 2022, 4:55 pm
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September 23, 2021
[center]WHO Halves Acceptable PM2.5 Standard[/center]
The World Health Organization released new air quality
guidelines on Wednesday, aiming to reduce, from more than 7
million, the number of people who die prematurely each year
thanks to particulate matter from pollution. Fine particulate
matter, or PM2.5, comes from burning fossil fuels, wildfires,
and agriculture, and can get embedded into the lungs when
inhaled and lead to a number of health complications including
asthma, heart disease, chronic bronchitis, and other respiratory
illnesses.
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The new targets halve the recommended maximum average annual
concentrations of fine particulate matter to no higher than 5
micrograms per cubic meter, half the 10 µg/m3 recommendation
established in 2005.
Much of the world already fails to meet the previously
recommended PM2.5 levels: According to WHO, more than 90% of the
world’s population lives in conditions that don’t meet the 2005
standard.
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air quality in line with the new health guidance will go
hand-in-hand with the commitments coming out of the upcoming
global climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Anenberg, associate professor of environmental and occupational
health and global health at George Washington University. “What
the world decides to do about climate change in the coming weeks
will have major impacts on whether or not we’re able to follow a
guideline like that.” (AP, CNN
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Lung cancer deaths kill more people every year than prostate,
breast, and colon cancer combined.
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Date: April 11, 2022, 2:29 pm
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[center]Lung Cancer: Early Signs, Symptoms, Stages[/center]
Reviewed on 11/3/2020 By: Charles Patrick Davis, MD, PhD
SNIPPET:
The major cause of lung cancer in men and women is cigarette
smoking. In 1876, a machine was invented to make rolled-up
cigarettes and thus provided cheap tobacco products to almost
anyone. Before that time, lung cancer was relatively rare. After
the invention of cigarette mass production, smoking dramatically
increased, and so did lung cancer. Currently, about 90% of all
lung cancers are related to smoking. Radon gas, pollution,
toxins, and other factors contribute to the remaining 10%.
Cigarettes and cigarette smoke contain over 70 cancer-causing
chemicals (carcinogens).
Some of the carcinogens found in cigarette smoke include:
☠️ Lead (a highly poisonous metal)
☠️ Arsenic (an insecticide)
☠️ Cadmium (a battery component)
☠️ Isoprene (used to make synthetic rubber)
☠️ Benzene (a gasoline additive)
read more: 🦉
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He is the author of 6 books, including ☠️ Poison
Spring with Mckay Jenkings.
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: April 21, 2022, 4:50 pm
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COUNTERPUNCH
APRIL 21, 2022 BY EVAGGELOS VALLIANATOS
Evaggelos Vallianatos is a historian and environmental
strategist, who worked at the US Environmental Protection Agency
for 25 years. He is the author of 6 books, including Poison
Spring with Mckay Jenkings.
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Mitchel and John Beard.[/center]
[center]Is America a Sacrifice Zone?[/center]
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In the late 1980s and early 1990s, I taught at Humboldt State
University in northern California, the American University in
Washington, DC, and the University of New Orleans in Louisiana.
Learning out in the open
My teaching was about our environmental tragedy: how corporate
business money captured the government, academia, journalism,
and the medical establishment, with the result of giving
polluters a free hand. The consequences of this massive
corruption, I told my students, was cancer and debilitating
neurological diseases and ecocide pushing wildlife towards
extinction — and the rising climate chaos.
I tried to mingle theory with observation. In each of the
universities I taught, I invited speakers and took the students
to a field trip. ... ...
The cancer alley has been surrounding poor people, especially
blacks, for decades. The air around [color=maroon]🦖
petroleum refineries[/color] and incinerators, I remember,
smelled danger.
☠️ Cancer alleys, sacrifice zones
More than 40 years later, the cancer alleys, sacrifice zones,
and hot spots continue to proliferate. A nonprofit newsroom,
ProPublica, investigated these hazardous places and counted
about 1,000 of them all over the country. The air in most of
them is laced with plumes of poisons, certainly unhealthy to
breathe.
Many of these fence-line communities are sacrifice spots. They
are in the South, and, like animal farms, they are primarily in
the midst of black neighborhoods. Black people live with filthy
air, leaks, explosions, and fires.
“These fence line communities are sacrifice zones,” said Jane
Williams to ProPublica. She is the executive director of
California Communities Against Toxics. “Before there was climate
denial, there was cancer denial. We release millions of pounds
of carcinogens into our air, water, and food and act mystified
when people start getting sick,” she said. ... ...
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Yes, someone benefits from giving disease and death to the black
communities and other vulnerable people trapped in sacrifice
zones. But it’s not the region, state, or the country. The
benefit goes directly to the
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companies, and other manufacturers. ... ...
Deception at EPA
I studied the EPA from within for 25 years. I asked ProPublica
if its reporters had read my book, Poison Spring: The Secret
History of Pollution and the EPA. ProPublica remained silent.
Instead, they interviewed plenty of former EPA staff. They did
not enlighten the situation of corruption that ties the hands of
the agency to the industry, including the EPA of the Biden
administration.
Full article:
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“US fracking boom could tip world to edge of climate disaster.”
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Date: May 14, 2022, 12:48 pm
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CleanTechnica
By Nexus Media Published22 hours ago
[center]🦖 Fossil Fuel 😈 Firms Planning 195
Carbon Bombs[/center]
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SNIPPET:
Fossil fuel companies are planning nearly 200 “carbon bomb”
projects that would push the climate past international limits,
causing catastrophic global disasters, the Guardian reports. The
195 projects, defined by research published in Energy Policy as
capable of producing at least a billion tons of CO2 pollution,
include 22 oil and gas drilling projects in the U.S. (more than
any other country), which, combined, could pump almost four
years of global climate pollution into the atmosphere.
“Only the colonial mindset of political leaders in rich
countries can make the brutal calculation that the interest of
fossil fuel giants and their billions in profit is more
important than the lives of people who are overwhelmingly black,
brown and poor,” UK climate justice advocate Asad Rehman told
the Guardian.
Full article: 🤦‍♂️
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Steve Hanley • 21 hours ago
I was unaware that capitalist theory teaches killing your
customers is a good long term business strategy.
AGelbert > Steve Hanley
It doesn't. At least that's what Taylor's Theory of Managment
says. However, Social Darwinism, the ideological "justification"
for Corporate Capitalism's "fiduciary duty" to do 24/7 profit
over people and planet (i.e. "fittest" predators 'R' US),
requires it.
When you look at the following quote from the "point of view" of
the Social Darwinist Wall Street worshipping greedball, it makes
perfect "evolutionary" sense:
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> “Capitalism is the astounding belief, that the most wickedest
of men, will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest
good of everyone.” — John Maynard Keynes
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The atheist religion of Social Darwinsm is what is destroying
the fabric of human society today by completely rejecting
altruism because it is a "weakness" and completely embracing
unrestrained greed because it is an integral "strength" of the
"fittest", though few will admit it. We aren't talking about hot
dog stands or your local bakery, where common sense ethics based
principles like empathy and respect for customers are sine qua
non for a successful business.
Social Darwinists believe that ethics based principles are
'limitations pretending to be virtues'. To them, ethics are
'feel good illusions' that humans invented to pretend our
species has empathy. To Social Darwinists, empathy is
irrefutable evidence of inexcusable weakness. To them, all who
are guided by ethics are deluded fools that should be eliminated
from the human 'apex predator' gene pool for the "good" of our
species.
Social Darwinism is the morally bankrupt world view that spawned
the profit over people and planet neoliberal ideology.
Neoliberal intellectuals like Friedrich von Hayek, Ludwig von
Mises and Milton Friedman were all Social Darwinists long before
they renamed laissez-faire liberalism (that had been thoroughly
discredited by the Great Depression) with the catchy title of
"Neoliberalism".
We don't need "isms" of any sort; We just need ethics based
principles. Without them, we will not make it.
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> "A society that loses the capacity for the sacred, that lacks
the power of human imagination, that cannot practice empathy,
ultimately ensures its own destruction." -- Chris Hedges
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Steve Hanley • 19 minutes ago
Thanks for this magnificent comment. Pertinent and cogent. I may
feel constrained to quote from it from time to time.
AGelbert > Steve Hanley • 4 minutes ago
Thank you Steve. Please do. People need to see what is really
undermining the efforts of people of good will.
rawlsio > AGelbert
Atheism has nothing to do with it. None of the great ethical
systems that recognize and incorporate the scientific / genetic
realities of human cooperation, reason, empathy and sociability
rely on religious explanations for these capacities. Religious
explanations are extraneous and (usually) motivated by the
desire of some to seek power over others -- just as the Social
Darwinists / Libertarians seek to do. Masking this "will to
power" in religious doctrine is no better than their attempt to
mask their power grab in the language of Darwin and evolutionary
theory. It might even be worse...
AGelbert > rawlsio
"Atheism has nothing to do with it. "
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How do you define the moral imperative if there is no ethical
standard?
How can there be an ethical standard we are merely a species of
apex predator which is the result of random undirected
processes, as all atheists firmly believe?
Do you define morality by caloric intake? How about nutrition
level? How about energy use? How about how little or how much
you defecate where you "eat"? Do you see where I am going? You
don't? Try this: HOW do YOU know when an action is morally
"right" or "wrong"?
If you are an honest person of good will, you will answer that
ethical standards MUST apply EQUALLY across the board to all
humans. If you are a Social Darwinist, you will say the action
is "right" if you gain an "evolutionry advantage" by practicing
it, even if that requires harming a fellow human.
Now then, if that doesn't present a moral quandary to an honest
atheist, I don't think said atheist is being honest.
"Situational Ethics" is an evident absurdity only a Social
Darwinist could love.
Spare me the many examples of religious bigotry, murder and
mayhem to make a case for the "ethical superiority" of atheism.
Religious bigotry is NOT, and never has been, the product of
Honest Worship of the Creator of the Universe that Commands that
we treat our neighbor with the SAME RESPECT we treat ourselves,
though you probably broad brush stroke all religious people as
the "scourge of humanity".
LOOK AROUND. Social Darwinism is what DOMINATES OUR SOCIETY NOW,
not "religious" dictates. All those bigots on the Supremely
bigoted Court make a PRETENSE of religiosity, nothing more. They
are all Social Darwinist "Might equals Right" to the core. The
same goes for the Mega-Church Con-artist greedballs.
Labelling the PRETENSE as the "real thing" is Orwellian.
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She realized people need to talk about these benefits more —
especially in communities that are plagued by air pollution
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May 25, 2022
[center]Quote of the Week:[/center]
“For far too long, communities of color as well as other
frontline communities, rural communities, have been left out of
discussions
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most impacted by fossil-fuel burning vehicles like trucks and
buses,” said
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cyanobacteria blooms have continued to appear on the lake, and
advocates say the work is far from finished. The pressur
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May 30, 2022 By Shaun Robinson
[center]As a busy summer approaches, challenges remain at Lake
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SNIPPET:
Raising ‘holy hell’
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Lake Carmi State Park boasts the largest campground in Vermont.
In the summer, the lake is a popular destination for walleye
fishing and other outdoor recreation.
But the 1,375-acre body of water — along with nearby Lake
Champlain — has been plagued for decades by phosphorus
pollution, largely caused by agricultural runoff. It has been
classified as “impaired” under state water quality standards.
In 2017, cyanobacteria blooms at the lake were bad enough to
close its beaches for weeks. Locals “raised holy hell,” as
former Rep. David Deen, D-Putney, put it at the time. Their
advocacy led to legislation a year later that required the state
Agency of Natural Resources to come up with a “crisis response
plan” for the lake.
A draft update to that plan, published two months ago, estimated
that by the end of 2020, Vermont was just more than 40% of the
way toward meeting its target for the maximum amount of
phosphorus entering the lake each day.
Oliver Pierson, who manages the Vermont Department of
Environmental Conservation's Lakes and Ponds Program, noted the
state’s estimate is based on modeling because it has no way to
definitively measure the flow of external phosphorus into the
lake.
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Carmi in August 2019. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger
Despite this progress, Lake Carmi still faces persistent
challenges from internal phosphorus that has built up in the
lake sediment for decades. According to Pierson, this “legacy”
contamination could take decades to address.
The state is aiming to keep average summertime phosphorus
concentrations in Lake Carmi at or below 22 parts per billion.
That figure is based on data from years when local residents
expressed satisfaction with lake conditions.
Data from the lake shows an overall improvement in water clarity
in recent years, according to the updated crisis response plan.
Even so, recent summertime averages continue to range between 30
and 40 ppb.
Pierson said officials are considering whether that 22 ppb
target, established in 2008, is still a realistic goal. For now,
he said, “that's the target we have on the books. And that's
what we're working towards.”
Starts and stops
Lake Carmi’s aeration system works by sending compressed air
through a tube to a “manifold,” which shoots air into pipes
spread out at the bottom of the lake. The pipes feed into
ceramic diffusers with holes that send a column of air into the
lake, continuously mixing the water.
When there’s oxygen present, the phosphorus in the sediment
remains immobile and doesn’t get released into the water, where
it could feed algae growth, according to Mindy Morales-Williams,
an assistant professor in UVM’s Rubenstein School of Environment
and Natural Resources. ... ...
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“Knock on wood,” he said, “we can monitor its impact on lake
water chemistry all summer long. And the icing on the cake would
be that it actually works to suppress internal loading.”
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Why Are Americans Dying Earlier? 👀
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Date: September 1, 2022, 4:01 pm
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Alliance for Natural Health USA – Protecting Natural Health
08/31/2022 By ANH-USA (graphics by AGelbert)
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[center]Why Are Americans Dying Earlier?[/center]
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A new analysis
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/>found that US life expectancy has dropped for the second year
in
a row, by about six months in 2021, after falling by two years
in 2020. This has driven overall US life expectancy to 76.99
years, its lowest point in 25 years. This should spur a moment
of reflection among policymakers and public health experts.
A report from the National Center for Health Statistics broke
down the drop in life expectancy by state
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Experts say that the COVID-19 pandemic and the opioid overdose
epidemic are the main drivers of this startling drop in life
expectancy. These explanations aren’t wrong, but they obscure
deeper truths about what is really going on here.
For starters, the government’s response to the pandemic cost
hundreds of thousands of lives. In the early days, government
health authorities ignored, censored, and attacked any treatment
for COVID-19; all the focus was on self-isolating, masking, hand
washing, and waiting for a vaccine to be developed. Some
estimate that 85 percent of COVID deaths could have been
prevented had early treatment with repurposed drugs combined
with supplements been widely adopted.
But the real reason so many Americans died from COVID is that we
are a profoundly sick nation. Half the population has at least
one chronic condition, and almost a third have multiple chronic
illnesses.
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/>There are many causes of the chronic disease epidemic:
🚩 The way we grow our food means it is less nutritious
than it once was, making us deficient in key nutrients and
priming us to develop chronic diseases;
🚩 Federal agencies like the EPA allow all sorts of
☠️ toxic chemicals onto the market. We’re exposed
to these toxins in the air, in our water, in consumer products,
and in our food. The accumulation of these exposures is making
us sick.
🚩 Rather than treating the root cause of illness by
addressing diet and lifestyle, mainstream medicine relies on
pharmaceutical drugs which are expensive and often dangerous.
Which brings us to the opioid epidemic. This is a case study in
how broken our health system is. We previously detailed
HTML https://anh-usa.org/cdc-opts-for-opioids-over-natural-alternatives/<br
/>the sordid history of how the FDA aided and abetted the
😈 maker of OxyContin in their reckless marketing of the
drug to millions of Americans. This is emblematic of our
crippling reliance on dangerous, expensive, and startlingly
ineffective pharmaceutical drugs to solve our health issues
rather than utilizing natural therapies that are far less
expensive, safer, and more effective. Consider that more than 15
million people take prescription drugs for heartburn, but
Nexium, one of the more popular medications, works for 1 in 25
people
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/>And even for the small percentage of people for whom it works,
Nexium and other proton pump inhibitors come with a host of
nasty side effects like pneumonia, kidney disease, increased
heart attack and dementia risk, and inhibiting energy production
and detoxification.
Does this look like a health system that works?
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[move]AGelbert NOTE: Life expectancy in Vermont dropped a full
year 🥺. It is now 78.8 years.[/move]
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