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Western civilization is a health hazard
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 2, 2020, 1:57 am
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OLD CONTENT
www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-climate-change-heal
th-20190116-story.html
[quote]In a comprehensive accounting, epidemiologist Andrew
Haines and global health specialist Kristie Ebi reprised roughly
20 years’ worth of research on the effects that a warming
environment can be expected to have on heat-related illnesses,
diseases linked to poor air quality, food production, and
scourges spread by such insects as ticks and mosquitoes.
None of that takes into account the fact that the U.S.
healthcare sector’s energy use is itself a major driver of
global warming. One estimate blames hospitals, doctors’ offices,
biomedical labs and pharmaceutical manufacturing for nearly
one-tenth of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions; if the U.S.
healthcare sector were a country, it would rank seventh in the
world, according to that calculation.
The array of health-related ills that flows from a reliance on
fossil fuels is sprawling:
Nutrition: As the climate heats up and agricultural conditions
shift, yields of vegetable and legume crops will suffer. In
addition, rising concentrations of carbon dioxide will adversely
affect the nutritional quality of such cereal crops as rice and
wheat, lowering their levels of protein and B vitamins. A 2016
estimate published in the Lancet reckons that by 2050, unchecked
climate change will reduce food availability to the average
person by 3.2% and will have led to the premature deaths of
529,000 adults worldwide compared with a world without global
warming.
Infectious and microbial disease: Disease-spreading microbes and
insects will proliferate as some of the planet’s hottest,
wettest and poorest places grow hotter, wetter and poorer.
Sea-level rise and coastal flooding will do more than drown
people and crops: they will also accelerate the spread of
cholera, malaria, diarrheal disease, dengue fever, encephalitis
and Zika virus. Bodies of water will be plagued by more and
deadlier algal blooms (as seen in Florida last year) and tainted
more often by cryptosporidiosis, cholera and leptospirosis,
sickening more people.
Chronic conditions: Unchecked air pollution and rising heat will
cause and exacerbate asthma, allergies and cardiovascular
disease. Worldwide, pollutants in the air are reckoned to be
responsible for between 6.5 million and 10 million premature
deaths annually. In the United States, it is estimated that
approximately 58% of the excess deaths are attributable to the
use of fossil fuel and arise particularly from traffic, power
production and industry.
Heat exposure: The sheer weight of exposure to excessive heat
will be deadly across the American South, Africa and East Asia.
One modeling study that plumbed data from 451 locations in 23
countries showed that deaths from heat stroke are already
occurring, and by the end of this century could rise by between
3% and 12% in hotter regions. Already, rising heat has led to
the loss of 153 billion hours of labor in 2017, 80% of it in the
agricultural sector.
And these do not take into account the injuries and deaths
caused by hurricanes, mudslides, wildfires and extreme weather
events — all of which are expected to increase as heat-trapping
gases continue to build up in the Earth’s atmosphere.
The World Health Organization has estimated that between 2030
and 2050, roughly 250,000 deaths annually could be caused by
climate change. That estimate takes into account only a fraction
of expected climate-change effects, including heat exposure in
elderly people, increases in diarrheal disease, malaria, dengue,
coastal flooding, and childhood stunting.
And the World Bank has estimated that unless governments and
societies make preparations to evolve and absorb climate shocks,
global warming could force more than 100 million people into
extreme poverty by 2030. That carries serious implications for
health as well.
That accounting came on the same day that the Trump
administration’s nominee to head the Environmental Protection
Agency, former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler, expressed his
skepticism of scientists’ warnings and promised to continue to
unwind Obama-era regulations aimed at addressing climate
change.[/quote]
If Western civilization had never existed, none of this would be
happening.
WESTERN CIVILIZATION MUST DIE.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation-induced_cancer
[quote]Up to 10% of invasive cancers are related to radiation
exposure, including both ionizing radiation and non-ionizing
radiation.[1] Additionally, the vast majority of non-invasive
cancers are non-melanoma skin cancers caused by non-ionizing
ultraviolet radiation. Ultraviolet's position on the
electromagnetic spectrum is on the boundary between ionizing and
non-ionizing radiation. Non-ionizing radio frequency radiation
from mobile phones, electric power transmission, and other
similar sources have been described as a possible carcinogen by
the World Health Organization's International Agency for
Research on Cancer, but the link remains unproven.[2]
...
Medical
In industrialized countries, Medical imaging contributes almost
as much radiation dose to the public as natural background
radiation. Collective dose to Americans from medical imaging
grew by a factor of six from 1990 to 2006, mostly due to growing
use of 3D scans that impart much more dose per procedure than
traditional radiographs.[7] CT scans alone, which account for
half the medical imaging dose to the public, are estimated to be
responsible for 0.4% of current cancers in the United States,
and this may increase to as high as 1.5-2% with 2007 rates of CT
usage;[8] however, this estimate is disputed.[9] Other nuclear
medicine techniques involve the injection of radioactive
pharmaceuticals directly into the bloodstream, and radiotherapy
treatments deliberately deliver lethal doses (on a cellular
level) to tumors and surrounding tissues.
It has been estimated that CT scans performed in the US in 2007
alone will result in 29,000 new cancer cases in future
years.[10][11] This estimate is criticized by the American
College of Radiology (ACR), which maintains that the life
expectancy of CT scanned patients is not that of the general
population and that the model of calculating cancer is based on
total-body radiation exposure and thus faulty.[11]
Occupational
In accordance with ICRP recommendations, most regulators permit
nuclear energy workers to receive up to 20 times more radiation
dose than is permitted for the general public.[3] Higher doses
are usually permitted when responding to an emergency. The
majority of workers are routinely kept well within regulatory
limits, while a few essential technicians will routinely
approach their maximum each year. Accidental overexposures
beyond regulatory limits happen globally several times a
year.[12] Astronauts on long missions are at higher risk of
cancer, see cancer and spaceflight.
Some occupations are exposed to radiation without being classed
as nuclear energy workers. Airline crews receive occupational
exposures from cosmic radiation because of reduced atmospheric
shielding at altitude. Mine workers receive occupational
exposures to radon, especially in uranium mines. Anyone working
in a granite building, such as the US Capitol, is likely to
receive a dose from natural uranium in the granite.[13]
Accidental
Nuclear accidents can have dramatic consequences to their
surroundings, but their global impact on cancer is less than
that of natural and medical exposures.
The most severe nuclear accident is probably the Chernobyl
disaster. In addition to conventional fatalities and acute
radiation syndrome fatalities, nine children died of thyroid
cancer, and it is estimated that there may be up to 4,000 excess
cancer deaths among the approximately 600,000 most highly
exposed people.[14][15] Of the 100 million curies (4
exabecquerels) of radioactive material, the short lived
radioactive isotopes such as 131I Chernobyl released were
initially the most dangerous. Due to their short half-lives of 5
and 8 days they have now decayed, leaving the more long-lived
137Cs (with a half-life of 30.07 years) and 90Sr (with a
half-life of 28.78 years) as main dangers.
In March 2011, an earthquake and tsunami caused damage that led
to explosions and partial meltdowns at the Fukushima I Nuclear
Power Plant in Japan. Significant release of radioactive
material took place following hydrogen explosions at three
reactors, as technicians tried to pump in seawater to keep the
uranium fuel rods cool, and bled radioactive gas from the
reactors in order to make room for the seawater.[16] Concerns
about the large-scale release of radioactivity resulted in 20 km
exclusion zone being set up around the power plant and people
within the 20–30 km zone being advised to stay indoors. On March
24, 2011, Japanese officials announced that "radioactive
iodine-131 exceeding safety limits for infants had been detected
at 18 water-purification plants in Tokyo and five other
prefectures".[17]
...
The Transit 5BN-3 SNAP 9A accident. On April 21, 1964, the
satellite containing plutonium burnt up in the atmosphere. Dr.
John Gofman claimed it increased the rate of lung cancer
worldwide. He said "Although it is impossible to
estimate[dubious – discuss] the number of lung cancers induced
by the accident, there is no question that the dispersal of so
much Plutonium238 would add to the number of lung cancer
diagnosed over many subsequent decades."[21][22][/quote]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinogen#Common_carcinogens
[quote]Arsenic and its compounds
Lung
Skin
Hemangiosarcoma
Smelting byproduct
Component of:
Alloys
Electrical and semiconductor devices
Medications (e.g. melarsoprol)
Herbicides
Fungicides
Animal dips
Drinking water from contaminated aquifers.
Asbestos
Lungs
Asbestosis
Gastrointestinal tract
Pleural Mesothelioma
Peritoneal Mesothelioma
Not in widespread use, but found in:
Constructions
Roofing papers
Floor tiles
Fire-resistant textiles
Friction linings (brake pads) (only outside Europe)
Replacement friction linings for automobiles still may contain
asbestos
Benzene
Leukemia
Hodgkin's lymphoma
Light fuel oil
Former use as solvent and fumigant
Printing
Lithography
Paint
Rubber
Dry cleaning
Adhesives
Coatings
Detergents
Beryllium and its compounds
Lung
Missile fuel
Lightweight alloys
Aerospace applications
Nuclear reactors
Cadmium and its compounds[27]
Prostate
Yellow pigments
Phosphors
Solders
Batteries
Metal paintings and coatings
Hexavalent chromium(VI) compounds
Lung
Paints
Pigments
Preservatives
IC engine exhaust gas
Lung[28]
Bladder[28]
Exhaust gas from engines
Ethylene oxide
Leukemia
Ripening agent for fruits and nuts
Rocket propellant
Fumigant for foodstuffs and textiles
Sterilant for hospital equipment
Nickel
Nose
Lung
Nickel plating
Ferrous alloys
Ceramics
Batteries
Stainless-steel welding byproduct
Radon and its decay products
Lung
Uranium decay
Quarries and mines
Cellars and poorly ventilated places
Vinyl chloride
Hemangiosarcoma
Liver
Refrigerant
Production of polyvinyl chloride
Adhesive for plastics
Former use in pressurized containers
Shift work that involves
circadian disruption[29]
Breast
Involuntary smoking (Passive smoking)[30]
Lung
Radium-226, Radium-224,
Plutonium-238, Plutonium-239[31]
and other alpha particle
emitters with high atomic weight
Bone (they are bone seekers)
Liver
Nuclear fuel processing
Radium dial manufacturing
Others
Gasoline (contains aromatics)
Lead and its compounds
Alkylating antineoplastic agents (e.g. mechlorethamine)
Styrene
Other alkylating agents (e.g. dimethyl sulfate)
Ultraviolet radiation from the sun and UV lamps
Alcohol (causing head and neck cancers)
Other ionizing radiation (X-rays, gamma rays, etc.)[/quote]
How many of these are we constantly surrounded by in everyday
life whether we like it or not? How much healthier would we be
if Western civilization had never existed?
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eatingourfuture.wordpress.com/eating-meat-raises-risks-of-cancer
-heart-disease-early-death-shorter-life/farm-animal-b12-deficien
cy-supplementation-for-meat-dairy-product-consumption/
inourishgently.com/the-truth-about-b-12/
www.veganlifemag.com/debunking-myth-vegans-vitamin-b12/
---
Lest we forget all the nuclear weapons testing that has occurred
thanks to the west: (Most of the radioactive particles created
by these tests are still on this planet, the gift that keeps on
giving...)
A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 - by Isao
Hashimoto
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLCF7vPanrY
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And then there is this:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvtDG6Tm1Mk
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawn
[quote]Lawns became popular with the aristocracy in northern
Europe from the Middle Ages onward. The early lawns were not
always distinguishable from pasture fields. The damp climate of
maritime Western Europe in the north made lawns possible to grow
and manage. They were not a part of gardens in other regions and
cultures of the world until contemporary influence.[6]
...
Greater amounts of chemical fertilizer and pesticides are used
per surface area of lawn than on an equivalent surface of
cultivated farmland,[44] and the continued use of these products
has been associated with environmental pollution, disturbance in
the lawn ecosystem, and increased health risks to the local
human and wildlife population.[45] It has also been estimated
that more herbicides are applied per surface of lawn than are
used by most farmers to grow crops.
Lawn maintenance commonly involves use of inorganic fertilizers
and synthetic pesticides. These cause great harm. Many are
carcinogens and endocrine disruptors. They may permanently
linger in the environment and negatively affect the health of
potentially all nearby organisms. The United States
Environmental Protection Agency has estimated[when?] nearly
32,000,000 kilograms (71,000,000 lb) of active pesticide
ingredients are used on suburban lawns each year in the United
States.[47][/quote]
And of course:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Levitt (lawn promoter mentioned in
the video)
[quote]Levitt was born in 1907 to a Jewish family. His
generation was the second since immigrating from Russia and
Austria;[2] the paternal grandparents who immigrated to the
United States had been a rabbi grandfather from Russia and a
grandmother from Austria-Germany.[3][/quote]
When I was a child, I got upset whenever my parents weeded the
lawn. Why was "grass" allowed to be on the lawn but "weeds" had
to be pulled out? (And don't get me started on what happened to
the ant-hills.....) I hated lawns back then already. Lawns are a
good reflection of the gratuitous violence underlying Western
notions of aesthetics.
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www.ecowatch.com/teflons-toxic-legacy-dupont-knew-for-decades-it
-was-contaminating-wate-1882142514.html
[quote]Teflon was first created, as many miracle chemicals were,
in a laboratory accident. In 1938, Roy J. Plunkett, a DuPont
chemist, was experimenting with refrigerants when he discovered
a white waxy material that seemed very slippery. The material
turned out to be an inert fluorocarbon—Polytetrafluoroethylene
(PTFE)—that had superior nonstick properties. In 1945, the
company patented the chemical and registered it under the
trademark “Teflon," touting it as “the most slippery material in
existence." By 1948 DuPont was producing about 2 million pounds
of Teflon a year at its Washington Works plant in Parkersburg,
West Virginia.
...
Starting around 1951, DuPont began using another
laboratory-formed chemical known as Perfluorooctanoic (PFOA)
acid, or C8 (so called because it contains eight carbon
molecules), to smooth out the lumpiness of freshly manufactured
Teflon. An unusually durable chemical, C8 first entered the
world in 1947 and due to its nonstick and stain-resistant
properties its use as a “surfactant" spread with extraordinary
speed. The white, powdery compound, often said to look like Tide
laundry detergent, would ultimately be used in hundreds of
products including fast food wrappers, waterproof clothing,
electrical cables, and pizza boxes.
...
The trouble was that the compound—which has since been linked to
a variety of health risks including cancer, liver disease,
developmental problems and thyroid disease—escapes into the air
easily.
...
Because it's an extremely stable chemical, C8 does not
biodegrade. Instead, it bioaccumulates, building up in people's
blood over time if they continue to drink water or breathe air
laced with the substance. Due to its ubiquitous use, the
chemical can now be found in trace amounts in the bloodstream of
more than 98 percent of Americans, and even in umbilical cord
blood and breast milk, according to the Centers for Disease
Control. It's also been found in the blood of seals, eagles, and
dolphins around the world, including in animals living in a
remote wildlife refuge in the middle of the North Pacific. The
chemical is expected to stay in the environment for thousands of
years.[/quote]
theintercept.com/2018/07/07/dupont-carneys-point-chambers-works-
chemours/
[quote]During its 123 years on the site, DuPont released some
107 million pounds of hazardous waste into the soil, air, and
water, according to an environmental analysis completed in 2016.
...
Though DuPont and Chemours have removed some of the
contamination in recent decades, the analysis concluded that, at
the current rate, it would take another 1,600 years to fully
clean up Chambers Works. Even if every possible effort were
made, completely ridding the site of the pollution left by
DuPont and Chemours would take a minimum of 300 years, according
to Andrilenas, who described that as “the rosy picture.”
...
The first cancers in the New Jersey dye workers started
appearing in 1932. The company continued making one of the
carcinogenic components until 1955, though it had been aware of
excess bladder cancers in its workers for decades, according to
the occupational health scholar David Michaels.
In the early 1920s, DuPont began making leaded gasoline at its
plant by the Delaware River. The manufacturing process not only
distributed lead throughout the soil — where much of it remains
today — but also poisoned many of its workers. The five-story
brick building on the site became known as the House of
Butterflies, named for the DuPont workers who seemed to be
plucking nonexistent insects out of the air, but were actually
hallucinating due to the effects of inhaling the neurotoxin.
...
During the 1940s, Chambers Works was also a Manhattan Project
site, which left a legacy of both radiation and fluorine on the
site of DuPont’s operations. There are many more contaminants
left in the ground at Chambers Works. Testing showed 75
chemicals above New Jersey’s standards in ground water at the
boundary of the site. The carcinogen benzene, for instance, was
measured at 28,000 times the allowable level. In 1999, the state
granted DuPont a 999-year exemption from the usual limits on
these chemicals. Many more contaminants exceed safety levels
within the site, according to Andrilenas.[/quote]
If Western civilization had never existed, none of this would
have happened.
Seriously, before post-Renaissance Western chemistry came along,
non-biodegradable waste did not exist at all. (But, according to
rightists, Western civilization is superior.....)
#Post#: 38--------------------------------------------------
Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 2, 2020, 2:31 am
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OLD CONTENT contd.
And then there are motor vehicles, another of Western
civilization's 'gifts' to the world. I'm not even talking about
the energy waste and pollution here, I am purely talking about
traffic deaths:
www.prb.org/roadtrafficaccidentsincreasedramaticallyworldwide/
[quote]Road traffic accidents—the leading cause of death by
injury and the tenth-leading cause of all deaths globally—now
make up a surprisingly significant portion of the worldwide
burden of ill-health. An estimated 1.2 million people are killed
in road crashes each year, and as many as 50 million are
injured, occupying 30 percent to 70 percent of orthopedic beds
in developing countries hospitals.1 And if present trends
continue, road traffic injuries are predicted to be the
third-leading contributor to the global burden of disease and
injury by 2020.2[/quote]
As with so many other aspects of Western civilization, not
personally participating in it does not keep one safe from its
harmful effects, on the contrary puts one in even greater
danger:
[quote]In general, pedestrians, cyclists, and moped and
motorcycle riders are the most vulnerable road users as well as
the heaviest users of roads in poor countries. Most people who
use public transportation, bicycles, or mopeds and motorcycles
or who habitually walk are poor, illuminating the higher risk
borne by those from less privilege.8
...
People in cars are between 8 and 20 times less likely to be
killed in a road accident than walkers, bicyclists, or motorized
two-wheeler users.13[/quote]
To say nothing of: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadkill
[quote]One of the earliest observers of roadkill was the
naturalist Joseph Grinnell, who noted in 1920: "This [roadkill]
is a relatively new source of fatality; and if one were to
estimate the entire mileage of such roads in the state
[California], the mortality must mount into the hundreds and
perhaps thousands every 24 hours." [1]
...
Very large numbers of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and
invertebrates are killed on the world's roads every day.[9] The
number of animals killed in the United States has been estimated
at a million per day.[10][11]
About 350,000 to 27 million birds are estimated to be killed on
European roads each year.[12]
...
Merritt Clifton (editor of Animal People Newspaper) estimated
that the following animals are being killed by motor vehicles in
the United States annually: 41 million squirrels, 26 million
cats, 22 million rats, 19 million opossums, 15 million raccoons,
6 million dogs, and 350,000 deer.[15]
...
In 2011, Dutch biologist Arnold van Vliet coordinated a similar
study of insect deaths on car license plates. He found two
insects killed on the license-plate area for every 10 kilometres
(6.2 mi) driven. This implies about 1.6 trillion insect deaths
by cars per year in the Netherlands, and about 32.5 trillion
deaths in the United States if the figures are extrapolated
there.[19][/quote]
If Western civilization had never existed, all of this could
have been avoided.....
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Next we turn to water fluoridation:
iaomt.org/top-ten-reasons-oppose-water-fluoridation/
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If Western civilization had never existed, this would not be
happening.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorine#History
[quote]In 1529, Georgius Agricola described fluorite as an
additive used to lower the melting point of metals during
smelting.[68][69][note 5] He penned the Latin word fluorés
(fluor, flow) for fluorite rocks. The name later evolved into
fluorspar (still commonly used) and then fluorite.[61][73][74]
The composition of fluorite was later determined to be calcium
difluoride.[75]
Hydrofluoric acid was used in glass etching from 1720
onwards.[note 6] Andreas Sigismund Marggraf first characterized
it in 1764 when he heated fluorite with sulfuric acid, and the
resulting solution corroded its glass container.[77][78] Swedish
chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele repeated the experiment in 1771,
and named the acidic product fluss-spats-syran (fluorspar
acid).[78][79] In 1810, the French physicist André-Marie Ampère
suggested that hydrogen and an element analogous to chlorine
constituted hydrofluoric acid.[80] Sir Humphry Davy proposed
that this then-unknown substance be named fluorine from fluoric
acid and the -ine suffix of other halogens. This word, with
modifications, is used in most European languages; Greek,
Russian, and some others (following Ampère's suggestion) use the
name ftor or derivatives, from the Greek
φθόριος (phthorios,
destructive).[81][82] The New Latin name fluorum gave the
element its current symbol F; Fl was used in early
papers.[83][note 7]
...
Initial studies on fluorine were so dangerous that several
19th-century experimenters were deemed "fluorine martyrs" after
misfortunes with hydrofluoric acid.[note 8] Isolation of
elemental fluorine was hindered by the extreme corrosiveness of
both elemental fluorine itself and hydrogen fluoride, as well as
the lack of a simple and suitable electrolyte.[75][84] Edmond
Frémy postulated that electrolysis of pure hydrogen fluoride to
generate fluorine was feasible and devised a method to produce
anhydrous samples from acidified potassium bifluoride; instead,
he discovered that the resulting (dry) hydrogen fluoride did not
conduct electricity.[75][84][85] Frémy's former student Henri
Moissan persevered, and after much trial and error found that a
mixture of potassium bifluoride and dry hydrogen fluoride was a
conductor, enabling electrolysis. To prevent rapid corrosion of
the platinum in his electrochemical cells, he cooled the
reaction to extremely low temperatures in a special bath and
forged cells from a more resistant mixture of platinum and
iridium, and used fluorite stoppers.[84][86] In 1886, after 74
years of effort by many chemists, Moissan isolated elemental
fluorine.[85][87]
In 1906, two months before his death, Moissan received the Nobel
Prize in Chemistry,[88] with the following citation:[84]
n recognition of the great services rendered by him in his
investigation and isolation of the element fluorine ... The
whole world has admired the great experimental skill with which
you have studied that savage beast among the elements.[note
9][/quote]
For most of history no one cared about fluorine. Then
post-Renaissance Westerners came along and ruined everything.
Fluoridated water is just the symptom. The disease is Western
civilization.
---
We did fine for thousands of years without fluoride:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teeth_cleaning_twig
[quote]Chew sticks are twigs or roots of certain plants that are
chewed until one end is frayed. This end can be used to brush
against the teeth,[1] while the other end can be used as a
toothpick.[2] Most commonly plants are used that have a high
content of tannins (astringent and antibacterial) or other
compounds that benefit the health of gums and teeth.[3] The
earliest chew sticks have been dated to Babylonia in 3500 BC[2]
and an Egyptian tomb from 3000 BC;[1] they are mentioned in
Chinese records dating from 1600 BC[2] and in the Tipitaka,[4]
the Buddhist Canon, purported to be giving account of events
which took place in the north-western India around the 5th
century BC.
In Africa, chew sticks are made from the tree Salvadora persica,
also known as the "toothbrush tree".
In Islam, this tree is traditionally used to create a chew stick
called miswak, as frequently advocated for in the hadith
(written traditions relating to the life of Muhammad).[5]
Traditional Sikhs still use datun today as it is written in
their scriptures:
ਦਾਤਨ ਕਰੇ
ਨਿਤ ਨੀਤ ਨਾ
ਦੁਖ ਪਾਵੈ
ਲਾਲ ਜੀ ॥ (੨੩)
("Dear/beloved, natural twig brush everyday and pains you shall
never get. (23)")
— Guru Gobind Singh, Tankhah Naama,[6] as written down by
Bhai Nand Lal[/quote]
and then post-Renaissance Western civilization suddenly got the
whole (colonized) world believing that fluoride is a must for
dental care......
By the way, I hope no one here is still using toothpaste.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leblanc_process
[quote]The Leblanc process plants were quite damaging to the
local environment. The process of generating salt cake from salt
and sulfuric acid released hydrochloric acid gas, and because
this acid was industrially useless in the early 19th century, it
was simply vented into the atmosphere. Also, an insoluble,
smelly solid waste was produced. For every 8 tons of soda ash,
the process produced 5.5 tons of hydrogen chloride and 7 tons of
calcium sulfide waste. This solid waste (known as galligu) had
no economic value, and was piled in heaps and spread on fields
near the soda works, where it weathered to release hydrogen
sulfide, the toxic gas responsible for the odor of rotten eggs.
Because of their noxious emissions, Leblanc soda works became
targets of lawsuits and legislation. An 1839 suit against soda
works alleged, "the gas from these manufactories is of such a
deleterious nature as to blight everything within its influence,
and is alike baneful to health and property. The herbage of the
fields in their vicinity is scorched, the gardens neither yield
fruit nor vegetables; many flourishing trees have lately become
rotten naked sticks. Cattle and poultry droop and pine away. It
tarnishes the furniture in our houses, and when we are exposed
to it, which is of frequent occurrence, we are afflicted with
coughs and pains in the head ... all of which we attribute to
the Alkali works."[/quote]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvay_process
[quote]The principal byproduct of the Solvay process is calcium
chloride (CaCl2) in aqueous solution. The process has other
waste and byproducts as well.[10] Not all of the limestone that
is calcined is converted to quicklime and carbon dioxide (in
reaction II); the residual calcium carbonate and other
components of the limestone become wastes. In addition, the salt
brine used by the process is usually purified to remove
magnesium and calcium ions, typically to form carbonates;
otherwise, these impurities would lead to scale in the various
reaction vessels and towers. These carbonates are additional
waste products.
In inland plants, such as that in Solvay, New York, the
byproducts have been deposited in "waste beds"; the weight of
material deposited in these waste beds exceeded that of the soda
ash produced by about 50%. These waste beds have led to water
pollution, principally by calcium and chloride. The waste beds
in Solvay, New York substantially increased the salinity in
nearby Onondaga Lake, which used to be among the most polluted
lakes in the U.S.[12] and is a superfund pollution site.[/quote]
This is how fucked up chemical engineering (which is based on
Western chemistry) is. In comparison, salt can be obtained
simply by evaporating seawater in sunlight (as we have been
doing for thousands of years), which creates zero waste!
Evaporation ponds are even visually beautiful:
english.sina.com/china/p/2010/0628/326798.html
www.kuriositas.com/2014/10/the-ancient-salt-ponds-of-maras-peru.
html
www.123rf.com/photo_49261894_belo-madagascar-november-24-2015-pe
ople-works-in-salt-evaporation-ponds-near-belo-sur-mer-to-extrac
t.html
---
"(Western?) dentistry"
Yes, orthodontics (a form of cosmetic deception) is Western:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_braces
[quote]Around 400-300 BC, Hippocrates and Aristotle contemplated
ways to straighten teeth[/quote]
The man himself!
[quote]Orthodontics truly began developing in the 18th and 19th
centuries. In 1728, French dentist Pierre Fauchard, who is often
credited with inventing modern orthodontics, published a book
entitled "The Surgeon Dentist" on methods of straightening
teeth. Fauchard, in his practice, used a device called a
"Bandeau", a horseshoe-shaped piece of iron that helped expand
the palate.[/quote]
See also:
trueleft.boards.net/thread/93/teeth
Basically, Westerners want to make teeth look like how they did
in pre-Neolithic times.
"what does everyone think about vaccines?"
The main ethical problem I focus on (as a victim myself) is
violent vaccination (mainly of children). We must fight for
children being allowed to choose for themselves regarding
vaccination, as opposed to parents being allowed to make the
choice for them. The same principle should apply to all medical
treatment (including orthodontics!), not just vaccination.
---
"isn't there an argument to be made that the vaccines a
necessary evil insofar as they can save the lives of babies?"
Necessary according to whom? Not according to the babies
themselves.
And then there is the issue of whether the vaccinators can be
trusted. Do we really know what they are injecting, and whether
it helps or harms? If they inject something and then the baby
survives, do you really know whether it was because of the
injection? Or, if they inject something and then the baby dies,
do you really know whether it was despite the injection? It is
as possible that the surviving baby survived despite the
injection, and the dying baby died because of the injection! The
argument you raise above presumes vaccines to invariably be
genuine and beneficial out of blind trust in Western medicine,
in contrast to default scepticism towards non-Western medical
treatments. If a non-Western medic suddenly showed up and told
you to swallow a strange pill that you know nothing about when
you are not even feeling sick, you probably would not swallow
it, and neither would I. This is common sense. The problem is
that an irrational exception to this common sense is
subconsciously made whenever the medic is Western.
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Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 2, 2020, 2:42 am
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OLD CONTENT contd.
Next, powered aircraft:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_aviation
[quote]The environmental impact of aviation occurs because
aircraft engines emit heat, noise, particulates and gases which
contribute to climate change[1][2] and global dimming.[3]
Airplanes emit particles and gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2),
water vapor, hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides,
sulfur oxides, lead, and black carbon which interact among
themselves and with the atmosphere.[4]
...
Comprehensive research shows that despite anticipated efficiency
innovations to airframes, engines, aerodynamics and flight
operations, there is no end in sight, even many decades out, to
rapid growth in CO2 emissions from air travel and air
freight,[6][7] due to projected continual growth in air
travel.[8][9]
...
Airports can generate significant water pollution due to their
extensive use and handling of jet fuel, lubricants and other
chemicals.
...
In cold climates, the use of deicing fluids can also cause water
pollution, as most of the fluids applied to aircraft
subsequently fall to the ground and can be carried via
stormwater runoff to nearby streams, rivers or coastal
waters.[118]:101 Airlines use deicing fluids based on ethylene
glycol or propylene glycol as the active ingredient.[118]:4
Ethylene glycol and propylene glycol are known to exert high
levels of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) during degradation in
surface waters. This process can adversely affect aquatic life
by consuming oxygen needed by aquatic organisms for survival.
Large quantities of dissolved oxygen (DO) in the water column
are consumed when microbial populations decompose propylene
glycol.[119]:2–23
...
Ultrafine particles (UFPs) are emitted by aircraft engines
during near-surface level operations including taxi, takeoff,
climb, descent, and landing, as well as idling at gates and on
taxiways. Other sources of UFPs include ground support equipment
operating around the terminal areas. In 2014, an air quality
study found the area impacted by ultrafine particles from the
takeoffs and landings downwind of Los Angeles International
Airport to be of much greater magnitude than previously
thought.[120] Typical UFP emissions during takeoff are on the
order of 1015–1017 particles emitted per kilogram of fuel
burned. Non-volatile soot particle emissions are 1014–1016
particles per kilogram fuel on a number basis and 0.1–1 gram per
kilogram fuel on a mass basis, depending on the engine and fuel
characteristics.[121][122][123][124][125]
...
Some 167,000 piston engine aircraft—about three-quarters of
private planes in the United States—release lead (Pb) into the
air due to leaded aviation fuel.[126] From 1970 to 2007, general
aviation aircraft emitted about 34,000 tons of lead into the
atmosphere according to the Environmental Protection
Agency.[127] Lead is recognized as a serious environmental
threat by the Federal Aviation Administration if inhaled or
ingested leading to adverse effects on the nervous system, red
blood cells and cardiovascular and immune systems with infants
and young children especially sensitive to even low levels of
lead, which may contribute to behavioral and learning problems,
lower IQ[128] and autism.[129]
...
Flying 12 kilometres (39,000 ft) high, passengers and crews of
jet airliners are exposed to at least 10 times the cosmic ray
dose that people at sea level receive. Every few years, a
geomagnetic storm permits a solar particle event to penetrate
down to jetliner altitudes. Aircraft flying polar routes near
the geomagnetic poles are at particular
risk.[130][131][132][133][/quote]
Plus:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_strike
[quote]Bird strikes are a significant threat to flight safety,
and have caused a number of accidents with human casualties.[3]
There are over 13,000 bird strikes annually in the US alone.[4]
However, the number of major accidents involving civil aircraft
is quite low and it has been estimated that there is only about
1 accident resulting in human death in one billion (109) flying
hours.[5] The majority of bird strikes (65%) cause little damage
to the aircraft;[6] however the collision is usually fatal to
the bird(s) involved.
Most accidents occur when a bird (or birds) collides with the
windscreen or is sucked into the engines of mechanical aircraft.
...
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) reported
65,139 bird strikes for 2011–14, and the Federal Aviation
Authority counted 177,269 wildlife strike reports on civil
aircraft between 1990 and 2015, growing 38% in 7 years from 2009
to 2015. Birds accounted for 97%.[8]
...
Most bird strikes involve large birds with big populations,
particularly geese and gulls in the United States. In parts of
the US, Canada geese and migratory snow geese populations have
risen significantly[17] while feral Canada geese and greylag
geese have increased in parts of Europe, increasing the risk of
these large birds to aircraft.[18] In other parts of the world,
large birds of prey such as Gyps vultures and Milvus kites are
often involved.[5] In the US, reported strikes are mainly from
waterfowl (30%), gulls (22%), raptors (20%), and pigeons and
doves (7%).[17] The Smithsonian Institution's Feather
Identification Laboratory has identified turkey vultures as the
most damaging birds, followed by Canada geese and white
pelicans,[19] all of which are very large birds. In terms of
frequency, the laboratory most commonly finds mourning doves and
horned larks involved in the strike.[19]
...
Large land animals, such as deer, can also be a problem to
aircraft during takeoff and landing. Between 1990 and 2013,
civil aircraft experienced more than 1,000 collisions with deer
and 440 with coyotes.[17]
An animal hazard reported from London Stansted Airport in
England is rabbits: they get run over by ground vehicles and
planes, and they pass large amounts of droppings, which attract
mice, which attract owls, which become another birdstrike
hazard.[21][/quote]
Pictures (warning: graphic images of Western civilization):
www.birdcontrol.it/birdstrikegallery-e.html
But not to worry! In order to reduce the incidence of
birdstrikes, Western civilization deliberately kills even larger
numbers of birds ahead of time!
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/new-york-birds-killed-
70000-planes-flight-path-hudson-miracle-sully-sullenberger-landi
ng-a7528076.html
[quote]Birds took the blame for bringing down the jetliner that
"Sully" Sullenberger landed on the Hudson River eight years ago
this weekend. They have been paying for it with their lives ever
since.
An Associated Press analysis of bird-killing programmes at the
New York City area's three major airports found that nearly
70,000 gulls, starling, geese and other birds have been
slaughtered, mostly by shooting and trapping, since the 2009
accident, and it is not clear if those killings have made the
skies safer.
Federal data shows that in the years after bird-killing
programmes that LaGuardia and Newark airports ramped up in
response to the gutsy landing, the number of recorded bird
strikes involving those airports actually went up.[/quote]
How about we just kill Western civilization instead?
---
While on the subject of birds as victims, let's not forget:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towerkill
[quote]Towerkill is a phenomenon in which birds are killed by
collisions with antenna towers. In the United States, the US
Fish and Wildlife Service estimates that between 5 and 50
million birds are killed each year by tower kill.
...
In at least one instance, several thousand birds were killed at
a single tower in one night. Additionally, the unnatural lights
on communication towers disrupt bird migration patterns in ways
that are still not fully understood. At least 231 species have
been affected, with neotropical migrants making up a large
proportion of all species killed.
...
There are two mechanisms of bird death due to communications
towers. The first is the "blind kill" where birds flying in poor
visibility do not see the guy-wires in time to avoid them. This
is more of a threat for faster flying birds such as waterfowl or
shorebirds. Slower and more agile birds, such as songbirds, are
not as likely to succumb to blind collision.
Communications towers that are lighted at night for aviation
safety may help reduce bird collisions caused by poor
visibility, but they bring about a second, even more deadly
mechanism for mortality.[1] When there is a low cloud ceiling,
hazy or foggy conditions, lights on a tower reflect off water or
other particles in the air creating an illuminated area around
the tower. Migrating birds lose their stellar cues for nocturnal
migration in such conditions. In addition, they often lose any
broad orienting perspective they might have had on the
landscape. When passing the lighted area, it may be that the
increased visibility around the tower becomes the strongest cue
the birds have for navigation, and thus they tend to remain in
the lighted space near the tower, afraid to leave. Mortality
occurs when they run into the structure and its guy wires, or
even other migrating birds as more and more passing birds
aggregate in the relatively small, lighted space.[/quote]
as well as:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird%E2%80%93skyscraper_collisions
[quote]According to FLAP, between one and nine million birds die
each year in the city from hitting skyscrapers due to mistaking
reflective windows for open sky, or being drawn to lights at
night.[1]
According to a 2014 article in the ornithological journal
Condor, an estimated 365 million to 988 million birds die each
year by colliding into buildings in the United
States.[2][/quote]
You don't see birds being killed by stationary structures built
according to the methods of any other civilization. This should
tell you that there is something uniquely wrong with
post-Renaissance Western civilization.
---
www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/03/11/air-pollution-ineq
uality-minorities-breathe-air-polluted-whites/3130783002/
[quote]Blacks and Hispanics disproportionately breathe air
that's been polluted by non-Hispanic whites, according to a
study. This new research quantifies for the first time the
racial gap between who causes air pollution – and who breathes
it.
"Pollution is disproportionately caused by whites, but
disproportionately inhaled by black and Hispanic minorities,"
the study said.
Poor air quality remains the largest environmental health risk
in the United States, the study warns. In fact, with 100,000
deaths per year, more Americans die from air pollution than car
crashes and murders combined.
“Even though minorities are contributing less to the overall
problem of air pollution, they are affected by it more,” said
study co-author Jason Hill, an engineering professor at the
University of Minnesota, who is white. “Is it fair (that) I
create more pollution and somebody else is disproportionately
affected by it?”
...
The study found that black and Hispanic Americans bear a
"pollution burden:" Blacks are exposed to about 56 percent more
pollution than is caused by their consumption. For Hispanics, it
is slightly higher – 63 percent.
However, non-Hispanic whites experience a "pollution advantage,"
meaning they breathe about 17 percent less air pollution than
whites cause.
...
the scientists found that whites spend more money on
pollution-intensive goods and services than do blacks and
Hispanics, which means they generate more pollution than the
other groups do.
...
Other experts agreed with the research: “These findings confirm
what most grassroots environmental justice leaders have known
for decades, ‘whites are dumping their pollution on poor people
and people of color,’”[/quote]
Basically a scaled-up version of passive smoking (which children
are the main victims of despite adults being mostly the active
smokers):
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1748121/
[quote]Philip Morris toxicological experiments with fresh
sidestream smoke: more toxic than mainstream smoke[/quote]
---
sacramento.cbslocal.com/2019/03/12/school-cell-tower-causing-can
cer/
sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/03/13/experts-wireless-headphones
-airpods-could-pose-cancer-risk/
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Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 2, 2020, 2:43 am
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OLD CONTENT contd.
We covered land and air travel, but let's not forget motorboats:
[quote]The environmental impact of shipping includes air
pollution, water pollution, acoustic, and oil pollution.[1]
Ships are responsible for more than 18 percent of some air
pollutants.[2]
It also includes greenhouse gas emissions. The International
Maritime Organization (IMO) estimates that carbon dioxide
emissions from shipping were equal to 2.2% of the global
human-made emissions in 2012[3] and expects them to rise 50 to
250 percent by 2050 if no action is taken.[4]
...
Ballast water discharges by ships can have a negative impact on
the marine environment.[1]
Cruise ships, large tankers, and bulk cargo carriers use a huge
amount of ballast water, which is often taken on in the coastal
waters in one region after ships discharge wastewater or unload
cargo, and discharged at the next port of call, wherever more
cargo is loaded. Ballast water discharge typically contains a
variety of biological materials, including plants, animals,
viruses, and bacteria. These materials often include non-native,
nuisance, invasive, exotic species that can cause extensive
ecological and economic damage to aquatic ecosystems along with
serious human health problems.
...
Noise pollution caused by shipping and other human enterprises
has increased in recent history.[10] The noise produced by ships
can travel long distances, and marine species who may rely on
sound for their orientation, communication, and feeding, can be
harmed by this sound pollution.[11][12]
The Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species has
identified ocean noise as a potential threat to marine life.[13]
The disruption of whales' ability to communicate with one
another is an extreme threat and is affecting their ability to
survive. According to Discovery Channel's article on Sonic Sea
Journeys Deep Into the Ocean,[14] over the last century,
extremely loud noise from commercial ships, oil and gas
exploration, naval sonar exercises and other sources has
transformed the ocean's delicate acoustic habitat, challenging
the ability of whales and other marine life to prosper and
ultimately to survive. Whales are starting to react to this in
ways that are life-threatening. Kenneth C. Balcomb, a whale
researcher and a former U.S Navy officer,[15] states that the
day March 15, 2000, is the day of infamy. As Discovery says,[16]
where him and his crew discovered whales swimming dangerously
close to the shore. They're supposed to be in deep water. So I
pushed it back out to sea, says Balcomb.[17] Although sonar
helps to protect us, it is destroying marine life. According to
IFAW Animal Rescue Program Director Katie Moore,[18] "There's
different ways that sounds can affect animals. There's that
underlying ambient noise level that's rising, and rising, and
rising that interferes with communication and their movement
patterns. And then there's the more acute kind of traumatic
impact of sound, that's causing physical damage or a really
strong behavioral response. It's fight or flight".
...
Marine mammals, such as whales and manatees, risk being struck
by ships, causing injury and death.[1] For example, a collision
with a ship traveling at only 15 knots has a 79% chance of being
lethal to a whale.[19]
One notable example of the impact of ship collisions is the
endangered North Atlantic right whale, of which 400 or less
remain.[20] The greatest danger to the North Atlantic right
whale is injury sustained from ship strikes.[19] Between 1970
and 1999, 35.5% of recorded deaths were attributed to
collisions.[21] From 1999 to 2003, incidents of mortality and
serious injury attributed to ship strikes averaged one per year.
From 2004 to 2006, that number increased to 2.6.[22] Deaths from
collisions has become an extinction threat.[23] The United
States' National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) introduced vessel
speed restrictions to reduce ship collisions with North Atlantic
right whales in 2008, which expired in 2013.[24] However, in
2017 an unprecedented mortality event occurred, resulting in the
deaths of 17 North Atlantic right whales caused primarily from
ship-strikes and entanglement in fishing gear.[20]
...
Exhaust gases from ships are considered to be a significant
source of air pollution, both for conventional pollutants and
greenhouse gases.[1]
There is a perception that cargo transport by ship is low in air
pollutants, because for equal weight and distance it is the most
efficient transport method, according to shipping researcher
Alice Bows-Larkin.[25] This is particularly true in comparison
to air freight; however, because sea shipment accounts for far
more annual tonnage and the distances are often large,
shipping's emissions are globally substantial.[26][25] A
difficulty is that the year-on-year increasing amount shipping
overwhelms gains in efficiency, such as from slow-steaming or
the use of kites. The growth in tonne-kilometers of sea shipment
has averaged 4 percent yearly since the 1990s.[27] And it has
grown by a factor of 5 since the 1970s.[25] There are now over
100,000 transport ships at sea, of which about 6,000 are large
container ships.[25]
...
Air pollution from cruise ships is generated by diesel engines
that burn high sulfur content fuel oil, also known as bunker
oil, producing sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and particulate,
in addition to carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and
hydrocarbons.[1] Diesel exhaust has been classified by EPA as a
likely human carcinogen. EPA recognizes that these emissions
from marine diesel engines contribute to ozone and carbon
monoxide nonattainment (i.e., failure to meet air quality
standards), as well as adverse health effects associated with
ambient concentrations of particulate matter and visibility,
haze, acid deposition, and eutrophication and nitrification of
water.[28]
...
Of total global air emissions, shipping accounts for 18 to 30
percent of the nitrogen oxide and 9 percent of the sulphur
oxides.[2][30] Sulfur in the air creates acid rain which damages
crops and buildings. When inhaled, sulfur is known to cause
respiratory problems and even increases the risk of a heart
attack.[31]
...
Most commonly associated with ship pollution are oil spills.[1]
While less frequent than the pollution that occurs from daily
operations, oil spills have devastating effects. While being
toxic to marine life, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs),
the components in crude oil, are very difficult to clean up, and
last for years in the sediment and marine environment.[36]
Marine species constantly exposed to PAHs can exhibit
developmental problems, susceptibility to disease, and abnormal
reproductive cycles. One of the more widely known spills was the
Exxon Valdez incident in Alaska. The ship ran aground and dumped
a massive amount of oil into the ocean in March 1989. Despite
efforts of scientists, managers and volunteers, over 400,000
seabirds, about 1,000 sea otters, and immense numbers of fish
were killed.[36]
...
The cruise line industry dumps 255,000 US gallons (970 m3) of
greywater and 30,000 US gallons (110 m3) of blackwater into the
sea every day.[1] Blackwater is sewage, wastewater from toilets
and medical facilities, which can contain harmful bacteria,
pathogens, viruses, intestinal parasites, and harmful nutrients.
Discharges of untreated or inadequately treated sewage can cause
bacterial and viral contamination of fisheries and shellfish
beds, producing risks to public health. Nutrients in sewage,
such as nitrogen and phosphorus, promote excessive algal blooms,
which consumes oxygen in the water and can lead to fish kills
and destruction of other aquatic life. A large cruise ship
(3,000 passengers and crew) generates an estimated 55,000 to
110,000 liters per day of blackwater waste.[42]
...
Greywater is wastewater from the sinks, showers, galleys,
laundry, and cleaning activities aboard a ship. It can contain a
variety of pollutant substances, including fecal coliforms,
detergents, oil and grease, metals, organic compounds, petroleum
hydrocarbons, nutrients, food waste, medical and dental waste.
Sampling done by the EPA and the state of Alaska found that
untreated greywater from cruise ships can contain pollutants at
variable strengths and that it can contain levels of fecal
coliform bacteria several times greater than is typically found
in untreated domestic wastewater.[43] Greywater has potential to
cause adverse environmental effects because of concentrations of
nutrients and other oxygen-demanding materials, in particular.
Greywater is typically the largest source of liquid waste
generated by cruise ships (90 to 95 percent of the total).
Estimates of greywater range from 110 to 320 liters per day per
person, or 330,000 to 960,000 liters per day for a 3,000-person
cruise ship.[44]
...
Solid waste generated on a ship includes glass, paper,
cardboard, aluminium and steel cans, and plastics.[1] It can be
either non-hazardous or hazardous in nature. Solid waste that
enters the ocean may become marine debris, and can then pose a
threat to marine organisms, humans, coastal communities, and
industries that utilize marine waters. Cruise ships typically
manage solid waste by a combination of source reduction, waste
minimization, and recycling. However, as much as 75 percent of
solid waste is incinerated on board, and the ash typically is
discharged at sea, although some is landed ashore for disposal
or recycling. Marine mammals, fish, sea turtles, and birds can
be injured or killed from entanglement with plastics and other
solid waste that may be released or disposed off of cruise
ships. On average, each cruise ship passenger generates at least
two pounds of non-hazardous solid waste per day.[45] With large
cruise ships carrying several thousand passengers, the amount of
waste generated in a day can be massive. For a large cruise
ship, about 8 tons of solid waste are generated during a
one-week cruise.[46] It has been estimated that 24 percent of
the solid waste generated by vessels worldwide (by weight) comes
from cruise ships.[47]
...
On a ship, oil often leaks from engine and machinery spaces or
from engine maintenance activities and mixes with water in the
bilge, the lowest part of the hull of the ship. Though bilge
water is filtered and cleaned before being discharged,[1] oil in
even minute concentrations can kill fish or have various
sub-lethal chronic effects. Bilge water also may contain solid
wastes and pollutants containing high levels of oxygen-demanding
material, oil and other chemicals. A typically large cruise ship
will generate an average of 8 metric tons of oily bilge water
for each 24 hours of operation.[49][/quote]
---
More people starting to get it:
www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2019-03-23-whites-created-cyclone-i
dai-and-must-therefore-pay-says-blf/
[quote]BLF president Andile Mngxitama charged in a statement
that the cyclone, which hit Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi, was
“not a natural disaster but a direct consequence of the white,
Western system of ecological assault for profits”.
...
“The multitudes that died as a result of the cyclone are not
victims of a natural disaster. This is mass murder which could
be prevented if the West abandoned its ways,” Mngxitama
stated.[/quote]
Background:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Idai
---
Fracking:
www.commondreams.org/news/2019/06/19/we-need-ban-fracking-new-an
alysis-1500-scientific-studies-details-threat-health-and
[quote]69 percent of original research studies on water quality
found potential for, or actual evidence of, fracking-associated
water contamination;
87 percent of original research studies on air quality found
significant air pollutant emissions; and
84 percent of original research studies on human health risks
found signs of harm or indication of potential harm.
"There is no evidence that fracking can operate without
threatening public health directly and without imperiling
climate stability upon which public health depends," the
Compendium states.[/quote]
Further information:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_hydraulic_fracturi
ng
[quote]Potential risks are "methane emissions from the wells,
diesel fumes and other hazardous pollutants, ozone precursors or
odours from hydraulic fracturing equipment, such as compressors,
pumps, and valves". Also gases and hydraulic fracturing fluids
dissolved in flowback water pose air emissions risks.[11] One
study measured various air pollutants weekly for a year
surrounding the development of a newly fractured gas well and
detected nonmethane hydrocarbons, methylene chloride (a toxic
solvent), and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. These pollutants
have been shown to affect fetal outcomes.[17]
The relationship between hydraulic fracturing and air quality
can influence acute and chronic respiratory illnesses, including
exacerbation of asthma (induced by airborne particulates, ozone
and exhaust from equipment used for drilling and transport) and
COPD. For example, communities overlying the Marcellus shale
have higher frequencies of asthma. Children, active young adults
who spend time outdoors, and the elderly are particularly
vulnerable. OSHA has also raised concerns about the long-term
respiratory effects of occupational exposure to airborne silica
at hydraulic fracturing sites. Silicosis can be associated with
systemic autoimmune processes.[18]
...
Also transportation of necessary water volume for hydraulic
fracturing, if done by trucks, can cause emissions.[20] Piped
water supplies can reduce the number of truck movements
necessary.[21]
...
Air pollution is of particular concern to workers at hydraulic
fracturing well sites as the chemical emissions from storage
tanks and open flowback pits combine with the geographically
compounded air concentrations from surrounding wells.[18] Thirty
seven percent of the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing
operations are volatile and can become airborne.[18]
Researchers Chen and Carter from the Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
used atmospheric dispersion models (AERMOD) to estimate the
potential exposure concentration of emissions for calculated
radial distances of 5 m to 180m from emission sources.[23] The
team examined emissions from 60,644 hydraulic fracturing wells
and found “results showed the percentage of wells and their
potential acute non-cancer, chronic non-cancer, acute cancer,
and chronic cancer risks for exposure to workers were 12.41%,
0.11%, 7.53%, and 5.80%, respectively. Acute and chronic cancer
risks were dominated by emissions from the chemical storage
tanks within a 20 m radius.[23]
...
Massive hydraulic fracturing typical of shale wells uses between
1.2 and 3.5 million US gallons (4,500 and 13,200 m3) of water
per well, with large projects using up to 5 million US gallons
(19,000 m3). Additional water is used when wells are
refractured.[34][35] An average well requires 3 to 8 million US
gallons (11,000 to 30,000 m3) of water over its
lifetime.[35][36][37][38] According to the Oxford Institute for
Energy Studies, greater volumes of fracturing fluids are
required in Europe, where the shale depths average 1.5 times
greater than in the U.S.[39]
...
Concern has been raised over the increasing quantities of water
for hydraulic fracturing in areas that experience water stress.
Use of water for hydraulic fracturing can divert water from
stream flow, water supplies for municipalities and industries
such as power generation, as well as recreation and aquatic
life.[42]
...
In the United States, hydraulic fracturing fluids include
proppants, radionuclide tracers, and other chemicals, many of
which are toxic.[3] The type of chemicals used in hydraulic
fracturing and their properties vary. While most of them are
common and generally harmless, some chemicals are
carcinogenic.[3] Out of 2,500 products used as hydraulic
fracturing additives in the United States, 652 contained one or
more of 29 chemical compounds which are either known or possible
human carcinogens, regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act
for their risks to human health, or listed as hazardous air
pollutants under the Clean Air Act.[3] Another 2011 study
identified 632 chemicals used in United States natural gas
operations, of which only 353 are well-described in the
scientific literature.[18] A study that assessed health effects
of chemicals used in fracturing found that 73% of the products
had between 6 and 14 different adverse health effects including
skin, eye, and sensory organ damage; respiratory distress
including asthma; gastrointestinal and liver disease; brain and
nervous system harms; cancers; and negative reproductive
effects.[49]
An expansive study conducted by the Yale School of Public Health
in 2016 found numerous chemicals involved in or released by
hydraulic fracturing are carcinogenic.[50] Of the 119 compounds
identified in this study with sufficient data, “44% of the water
pollutants...were either confirmed or possible carcinogens.”
However, the majority of chemicals lacked sufficient data on
carcinogenic potential, highlighting the knowledge gap in this
area. Further research is needed to identify both carcinogenic
potential of chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing and their
cancer risk.[50]
...
Less than half of injected water is recovered as flowback or
later production brine, and in many cases recovery is <30%.[52]
As the fracturing fluid flows back through the well, it consists
of spent fluids and may contain dissolved constituents such as
minerals and brine waters.[53] In some cases, depending on the
geology of the formation, it may contain uranium, radium, radon
and thorium.[54] Estimates of the amount of injected fluid
returning to the surface range from 15-20% to
30–70%.[52][53][55]
...
Produced water spills and subsequent contamination of
groundwater also presents a risk for exposure to carcinogens.
Research that modeled the solute transport of BTEX (benzene,
toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene) and naphthalene for a range
of spill sizes on contrasting soils overlying groundwater at
different depths found that benzene and toluene were expected to
reach human health relevant concentration in groundwater because
of their high concentrations in produced water, relatively low
solid/liquid partition coefficient and low EPA drinking water
limits for these contaminants.[61] Benzene is a known carcinogen
which affects the central nervous system in the short term and
can affect the bone marrow, blood production, immune system, and
urogenital systems with long term exposure.[62]
...
Volatile chemicals held in waste water evaporation ponds can
evaporate into the atmosphere, or overflow. The runoff can also
end up in groundwater systems. Groundwater may become
contaminated by trucks carrying hydraulic fracturing chemicals
and wastewater if they are involved in accidents on the way to
hydraulic fracturing sites or disposal destinations.[63][/quote]
If Western civilization had never existed, none of this would be
happening.
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Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 2, 2020, 2:46 am
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And one more thing about lawns:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf_course#Environmental_impact
[quote]Environmental concerns over the use of land for golf
courses have grown since the 1960s. Specific issues include the
amount of water required for irrigation and the use of chemical
pesticides and fertilizers in maintenance, as well as the
destruction of wetlands and other environmentally important
areas during construction. The United Nations estimates that,
worldwide, golf courses consume about 2.5 billion gallons/9.5
billion litres of water per day. Many golf courses are now
irrigated with non-potable water and rainwater. In 1988, the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency prohibited the use of
Diazinon on golf courses and sod farms because of its negative
impact on bird species.
...
In some parts of the world, attempts to build courses and
resorts have led to protests, vandalism, and violence. Populists
perceive golf as an elitist activity, and thus golf courses
become a target for popular opposition. Resisting golf tourism
and golf's expansion has become an objective of some land-reform
movements, especially in the Philippines and Indonesia.
In the Bahamas, opposition to golf developments has become a
national issue. Residents of Great Guana Cay and Bimini, for
example, are engaged in legal and political opposition to golf
developments on their islands, for fear the golf courses will
destroy the nutrient-poor balance on which their coral reef and
mangrove systems depend.[/quote]
For once, the term "populist" is used accurately! Genuine
populism is necessarily anti-Western.
Yet thanks to mainstream media semantic incompetence, this is
whom most people today believe is a "populist":
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Depleted uranium contamination:
www.globalresearch.ca/depleted-uranium-and-radioactive-contamina
tion-in-iraq-an-overview/5605215
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When reality is more absurd than parody:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg_2sSV2HIo
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www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/08/13/chipotle-sweetgreen-bowl
s-may-have-chemicals-linked-cancer/1942912001/
[quote]A story published last week by the New Food Economy, a
non-profit newsroom that investigates food-related issues,
reported the "cancer-linked" presence of PFAS, also called
"forever chemicals," in the fiber bowls used at fast casual
dining spots and other restaurants including Chipotle,
Sweetgreen, Dig Inn and other locations in New York City.
The chemicals are being investigated by scientists and
government officials amid concerns over links to cancer,
obesity, reproductive health problems, immunotoxicity and other
health problems. PFAS have been used in consumer goods since the
1940s, according to the Food and Drug Administration. They've
also been found in water.
...
Why 'forever chemicals' don't go away
PFAS, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, is a family of
man-made chemicals that contain carbon-fluorine bonds. The bonds
don't break down easily, which is why PFAS are often referred to
as "forever chemicals."
They have been used in the production of common goods since the
1940s, according to the FDA.
And PFAS are everywhere: Drinking water, food, cookware, paints,
water-repellent fabrics, nonstick products, firefighting foams
and more.
Because it doesn't break down, PFAS remain present in our
groundwater, soil and in human and animal bloodstreams, the FDA
said in a statement.[/quote]
Screw this "man-made" bullshit. These are Western-made
chemicals. They would never have existed if the Renaissance had
not happened.
Every other civilization could have been left running for
thousands of years more and not one of them would have ever come
up with such chemicals. Western civilization and nothing but
Western civilization poisons the world in this way.
[quote]There are nearly 5,000 chemicals in the PFAS group. Only
a handful have been studied for toxicity, and the results are
"very concerning," said Cox.
According to Marchewka, PFAS tend to move "through the entire
ecosystem." Because such a chemical may not biodegrade, "it
works its way through the entire life-cycle of anything it
touches," she said.[/quote]
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edition.cnn.com/2019/02/14/health/us-glyphosate-cancer-study-scl
i-intl/index.html
[quote]Common weed killer glyphosate increases cancer risk by
41%, study says[/quote]
edition.cnn.com/2018/08/15/health/glyphosate-oat-products-ewg-st
udy/index.html
[quote]Unsafe levels of a weed killer chemical in oat products,
report says[/quote]
For reference:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate
[quote]In many cities, glyphosate is sprayed along the sidewalks
and streets, as well as crevices in between pavement where weeds
often grow. However, up to 24% of glyphosate applied to hard
surfaces can be run off by water.[50] Glyphosate contamination
of surface water is attributed to urban and agricultural
use.[51] Glyphosate is used to clear railroad tracks and get rid
of unwanted aquatic vegetation.[41] Since 1994, glyphosate has
been used in aerial spraying in Colombia in coca eradication
programs[/quote]
We had been farming for thousands of years perfectly well with
no weedkillers. Then Western civilization came along.
Everyone repeat after me: if Western civilization had never
existed, none of this would be happening.
(Additional information:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbicidal_warfare )
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www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6886561/Cell-phone-tower-shut
-elementary-school-eight-kids-diagnosed-cancer.html
[quote]Morris says he is not convinced that the tower is
harmless.
But he also says other forms of contamination may be compounding
factors, implying that a Nestle plant may have leaked toxins
into the soil for years.[/quote]
It's not just the tower that needs to be taken down, it's the
whole of Western civilization which needs to be taken down.
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news.yahoo.com/leaf-blowers-insects-german-government-200143209.
html
[quote]Leaf blowers kill insects and cause pollution and should
not be used, the German government has said.
The country’s Ministry for the Environment stopped short of an
outright ban, but issued new guidance in response to a request
by a German Green Party MP.
...
The guidance added that the devices are “fatal to insects in the
foliage”.
The government said: “There is a risk that small animals are
absorbed or blown and thereby damaged.”
...
In terms of insect biomass (the total weight of insects), the
results were even more alarming, with a decline of 40% of insect
biomass since 2008.[/quote]
The whole world had been comfortable with using brooms* for
thousands of years. Then Western civilization came along.
(* I have accidentally swept insects hiding inside debris using
a broom on occasions, but the insects generally have time to
move away - I try not to sweep too hard or fast in order to give
them more time to react - and hence are unharmed. This is the
superiority of manual tools.)
I don't like vaccuum cleaners either, for the same reason. (When
I was a child, my parents used vaccuum cleaners on insects
deliberately.)
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You cannot be green while remaining Western:
qz.com/1759150/reusable-plastic-shopping-bags-are-making-the-pro
blem-worse/
[quote]Over the past few years, reusable plastic shopping bags
began showing up in grocery stores in many parts of the world.
They are sturdier than the flimsy plastic bags that have become
a symbol of the global movement against disposable plastics, and
so can be used many times, lending to their marketing as the
ethical choice for the environmentally conscious shopper.
But of course, these thicker bags require more plastic to make.
That means they could only improve the overall situation if they
led to stores handing out overall less plastic, by volume, than
they would without them—by, say, replacing thousands of
single-use plastic bags a shopper might otherwise use over the
years. Because no matter the style of plastic bag, it will still
contribute to the global problem of forever-trash entering the
environment, and the greenhouse gases associated with
manufacturing the bag from fossil fuels in the first place.
But it seems they haven’t. A new report from the Environmental
Investigation Agency (EIA) and Greenpeace looking at grocery
stores in the UK suggests that the plastic “bags for life”
utterly failed to do the one thing they were ostensibly meant
to. So far in 2019, the top 10 UK grocery stores reported
selling 1.5 billion of these bags, which represents
approximately 54 “bags for life” per household in the UK.
...
Overall, those same supermarkets increased the volume of plastic
packaging they put out—including the “bags for life”—by 18,739
tons (17,000 metric tons) from 2017 to 2018. “It’s shocking to
see that despite unprecedented awareness of the pollution
crisis, the amount of single-use plastic used by the UK’s
biggest supermarkets has actually increased,” the EIA’s Juliet
Phillips told the Guardian. The grocery stores’
plastic-footprint increase was caused in part by the reusable
plastic bags.
“We have replaced one problem with another,” Fiona Nicholls, a
Greenpeace UK campaigner who is one of the report’s authors,
told the New York Times.[/quote]
Plastic itself is the problem. And guess who created this
problem?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic#History
[quote]Parkesine (nitrocellulose) is considered the first
man-made plastic. The plastic material was patented by Alexander
Parkes, in Birmingham, England in 1856.[19] It was unveiled at
the 1862 Great International Exhibition in London.[20] Parkesine
won a bronze medal at the 1862 World's fair in London. Parkesine
was made from cellulose (the major component of plant cell
walls) treated with nitric acid as a solvent. The output of the
process (commonly known as cellulose nitrate or pyroxilin) could
be dissolved in alcohol and hardened into a transparent and
elastic material that could be molded when heated.[21] By
incorporating pigments into the product, it could be made to
resemble ivory.
In 1897, the Hanover, Germany mass printing press owner Wilhelm
Krische was commissioned to develop an alternative to
blackboards.[22] The resultant horn-like plastic made from the
milk protein casein was developed in cooperation with the
Austrian chemist (Friedrich) Adolph Spitteler (1846–1940). The
final result was unsuitable for the original purpose.[23] In
1893, French chemist Auguste Trillat discovered the means to
insolubilize casein by immersion in formaldehyde, producing
material marketed as galalith.[22]
In the early 1900s, Bakelite, the first fully synthetic
thermoset, was reported by Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland by
using phenol and formaldehyde.
After World War I, improvements in chemical technology led to an
explosion in new forms of plastics, with mass production
beginning in the 1940s and 1950s (around World War II).[24]
Among the earliest examples in the wave of new polymers were
polystyrene (PS), first produced by BASF in the 1930s,[2] and
polyvinyl chloride (PVC), first created in 1872 but commercially
produced in the late 1920s.[2] In 1923, Durite Plastics Inc. was
the first manufacturer of phenol-furfural resins.[25] In 1933,
polyethylene was discovered by Imperial Chemical Industries
(ICI) researchers Reginald Gibson and Eric Fawcett.[2]
In 1954, polypropylene was discovered by Giulio Natta and began
to be manufactured in 1957.[2]
In 1954, expanded polystyrene (used for building insulation,
packaging, and cups) was invented by Dow Chemical.[2] The
discovery of Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is credited to
employees of the Calico Printers' Association in the UK in 1941;
it was licensed to DuPont for the US and ICI otherwise, and as
one of the few plastics appropriate as a replacement for glass
in many circumstances, resulting in widespread use for bottles
in Europe.[2][/quote]
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Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 2, 2020, 2:56 am
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www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/17/rainwater-pfas-us-po
tentially-toxic-levels-study
[quote]New data shows that rainwater in some parts of the US
contains high enough levels of potentially toxic per- and
polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to possibly affect human
health and may, if found in drinking water, in some cases be
high enough to trigger regulatory action.
PFAS chemicals appear in an array of everyday items, such as
food packaging, clothing and carpeting. Chemicals in this family
are the subject of the film Dark Water, which chronicles the
real-life efforts of a lawyer seeking to hold a polluting
factory to account in West Virginia.
Estimates pin the number of different PFAS variants at more than
4,700 but federal regulations so far target only two of them:
PFOS and PFOA. Some of these chemicals have been known to cause
serious health issues such as cancer, and immune system and
thyroid problems.
Previously it was known that there is widespread PFAS
contamination of the nation’s lakes, rivers and groundwater
reserves but until recently, researchers were largely in the
dark as to whether this family of chemicals could also be
ubiquitous in rain.
...
Shafer says he suspects PFAS chemicals are entering rainwater
through a variety of avenues, like direct industrial emissions
and evaporation from PFAS-laden fire-fighting foams. Still,
“there’s a dearth of knowledge about what’s supporting the
atmospheric concentrations and ultimately deposition of PFAS”,
he says.[/quote]
Who is to blame? Answer: Western civilization.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organofluorine_chemistry#History
[quote]Organofluorine chemistry began in the 1800s with the
development of organic chemistry.[17] [36] The first
organofluorine compounds were prepared using antimony
trifluoride as the F− source. The nonflammability and
nontoxicity of the chlorofluorocarbons CCl3F and CCl2F2
attracted industrial attention in the 1920s. on April 6, 1938,
Roy J. Plunkett a young research chemist who worked at DuPont's
Jackson Laboratory in Deepwater, New Jersey, accidentally
discovered polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE).[37]discovered
polytetrafluoroethylene.[38][39] Subsequent major developments,
especially in the US, benefited from expertise gained in the
production of uranium hexafluoride.[5] Starting in the late
1940s, a series of electrophilic fluorinating methodologies were
introduced, beginning with CoF3. Electrochemical fluorination
("electrofluorination") was announced, which Joseph H. Simons
had developed in the 1930s to generate highly stable
perfluorinated materials compatible with uranium
hexafluoride.[14] [/quote]
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www.yahoo.com/news/notre-dame-fire-wakes-world-075620750.html
[quote]Poisoning from lead dust can cause permanent loss to
cognitive ability, seizures, coma, or death — and exposure is of
greatest risk to pregnant mothers and to young children, who can
easily transfer toxic dust into their mouths.
After 250 tons of lead on Notre Dame’s spire and roof was
engulfed in flames in central Paris on April 15 and authorities
alerted Parisians to an environmental health risk, they were
forced to cobble together disparate and incomplete research to
set a makeshift safety level in an attempt reassure the public.
“When the Notre Dame fire happened, we didn’t have any threshold
for what represented dangerous lead levels outdoors,” Anne
Souyris, the Paris City Hall deputy mayor in charge of public
health, told the AP. “It was a wake-up call ... the amount of
lead that was burned in Notre Dame was unprecedented.”
Officials were surprised to discover that while safety
guidelines exist in France for lead levels inside buildings and
schools, as well as in paint, soil and air pollution, there were
zero hazard guidelines for lead accumulations in public spaces,
such as dust on the ground.
The inherent danger and the regulatory gap for lead dust became
impossible to ignore for French officials as it collected as a
toxic film on the cobblestones of Paris’ Ile-de-la-Cite
following the fire.
“The authorities basically tried to create safety guidelines
after the fire by piecing together a mixture of old fragments of
data and reports,” Souyris said. “But there was really nothing
official ... we simply didn’t realize that lead outside might be
a problem.”[/quote]
Do you realize that Western civilization might be a problem?
[quote]“Paris is a beautifully preserved city,” Souyris said.
“But we realize we have also beautifully preserved its lead.”
Experts say Paris’ rare status as a highly conserved historic
city makes it a particular danger spot for lead.
“Preservation does make Paris unusual,” said Neil M. Donahue, a
chemistry professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. “Incineration of one of the most famous roofs in
the world may be especially dramatic, but there is no alchemy in
this world. Lead will remain lead forever.”[/quote]
Sigh.....
By the way:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead#History
[quote]Lead was a key material in parts of the printing press,
which was invented around 1440; lead dust was commonly inhaled
by print workers, causing lead poisoning.[159] Firearms were
invented at around the same time, and lead, despite being more
expensive than iron, became the chief material for making
bullets.
...
In the New World, lead production was recorded soon after the
arrival of European settlers. The earliest record dates to 1621
in the English Colony of Virginia, fourteen years after its
foundation.[165] In Australia, the first mine opened by
colonists on the continent was a lead mine, in 1841.[166] In
Africa, lead mining and smelting were known in the Benue
Trough[167] and the lower Congo Basin, where lead was used for
trade with Europeans[/quote]
In other words, "whites" (including Jews) got "non-whites" to
literally mine lead for "whites" to mass-produce bullets with
which to shoot "non-whites". Also known as the colonial era.
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www.yahoo.com/news/u-drinking-water-widely-contaminated-05022955
0.html
[quote]WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The contamination of U.S. drinking
water with man-made "forever chemicals" is far worse than
previously estimated with some of the highest levels found in
Miami, Philadelphia and New Orleans, said a report on Wednesday
by an environmental watchdog group.
The chemicals, resistant to breaking down in the environment,
are known as perfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS. Some have been
linked to cancers, liver damage, low birth weight and other
health problems.
The findings www.ewg.org/research/national-pfas-testing by the
Environmental Working Group (EWG) show the group's previous
estimate in 2018, based on unpublished U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) data, that 110 million Americans may be
contaminated with PFAS, could be far too low.
"It's nearly impossible to avoid contaminated drinking water
from these chemicals," said David Andrews, a senior scientist at
EWG and co-author of the report.
The chemicals were used in products like Teflon and Scotchguard
and in firefighting foam. Some are used in a variety of other
products and industrial processes, and their replacements also
pose risks.
Of tap water samples taken by EWG from 44 sites in 31 states and
Washington D.C., only one location, Meridian, Mississippi, which
relies on 700 foot (215 m) deep wells, had no detectable PFAS.
Only Seattle and Tuscaloosa, Alabama had levels below 1 part per
trillion (PPT), the limit EWG recommends.
In addition, EWG found that on average six to seven PFAS
compounds were found at the tested sites, and the effects on
health of the mixtures are little understood. "Everyone's really
exposed to a toxic soup of these PFAS chemicals," Andrews said.
In 34 places where EWG's tests found PFAS, contamination had not
been publicly reported by the EPA or state environmental
agencies.
The EPA has known since at least 2001 about the problem of PFAS
in drinking water but has so far failed to set an enforceable,
nationwide legal limit. The EPA said early last year it would
begin the process to set limits on two of the chemicals, PFOA
and PFOS.
The EPA said it has helped states and communities address PFAS
and that it is working to put limits on the two main chemicals
but did not give a timeline.
In 2018 a draft report from an office of the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services said the risk level for exposure to
the chemicals should be up to 10 times lower than the 70 PPT
threshold the EPA recommends. The White House and the EPA had
tried to stop the report from being published.[/quote]
Again, not "man-made", but WESTERN-made.
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Some civilization did something:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iNbPEjnL1M
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www.yahoo.com/news/trump-tells-colombia-spray-coca-084300438.htm
l
[quote]Trump Tells Colombia: Spray Coca Fields With Alleged
Carcinogen—or Else
CALI, Colombia—During a meeting with Colombian President Iván
Duque at the White House early last week, Donald Trump more or
less ordered Colombia to wipe out coca plants—the main
ingredient in ****—by spraying the controversial herbicide
glyphosate from the air.
No, it’s not the infamous chemical Agent Orange used in Vietnam,
but it’s bad enough, and likely to poison the people and the
land beneath the toxic clouds.
...
Colombia had curtailed the practice back in 2015 due to health
risks, including cancer.[/quote]
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I actually gave a ride to someone once who had gotten cancer
from spraying glyphosate and was part of the class action law
suit against Monsanto. He told me back when they first started
working with it they were spraying that stuff everywhere all day
long, with very little protective clothing. I hadn't really
given to much credit to the case against Monsanto until that
conversation. Sounds like some really nasty ****.
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[quote]From Fish to Humans, A Microplastic Invasion May Be
Taking a Toll
Tiny bits of plastic have seeped into soil, fish and air, posing
a threat to animal and human health.[/quote]
Plastic is a western invention....
[quote]Their size—from about five millimeters, or the size of a
grain of rice, down to microscopic—means they can be ingested by
a wide range of creatures, from the plankton that form the basis
of the marine food chain to humans. As Browne’s 2008 study was
one of the first to demonstrate, those plastic particles don’t
always pass harmlessly through the body. The finding “was one of
those sort of bittersweet moments,” the ecotoxicologist at the
University of New South Wales in Sydney says. “You’re pleased
that some prediction you’ve made has come true—but then you’re
devastated” because of the potentially profound ecological
implications.[/quote]
getpocket.com/explore/item/from-fish-to-humans-a-microplastic-in
vasion-may-be-taking-a-toll?utm_source=pocket-newtab
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Western civilization is so bad that coronavirus actually
improves things:
us.yahoo.com/news/air-pollution-clears-northern-italy-180047352.
html
[quote]LONDON (Reuters) - Air pollution over northern Italy fell
after the government introduced a nationwide lockdown to combat
coronavirus, satellite imagery showed on Friday, in a new
example of the pandemic's potential impact on emissions.
...
The European Space Agency (ESA) said it had observed a
particularly marked decline in emissions of nitrogen dioxide, a
noxious gas emitted by power plants, cars and factories, over
the Po Valley region in northern Italy.
"Although there could be slight variations in the data due to
cloud cover and changing weather, we are very confident that the
reduction in emissions that we can see coincides with the
lockdown in Italy causing less traffic and industrial
activities," Claus Zehner, who manages the agency's Copernicus
Sentinel-5P satellite mission, said in a statement.
ESA published an animation www.esa.int showing how NO2 emissions
fluctuated across Europe from Jan. 1-March 11, using a 10-day
moving average, clearly showing pollution levels dropping over
northern Italy.
[/quote]
In fact just the other day I was saying to Starling over email:
[quote]One side-effect of the coronavirus pandemic that I am
actually enjoying is that society has suddenly gone back to
something significantly closer to a subsistence economy as a
consequence. Less traffic, shopping only for food and other
essentials (and hence heavy scaling down of luxury product
manufacturing), collapse of nightlife, tourism, etc. have
together produced a considerably more tranquil habitat that is
instantly much more pleasant to live in (not to mention better
for the environment). It is a pity that most people require fear
of infection to behave as I wish they could behave even without
fear of infection!
I especially love the shutting down of schools and hence
children getting a break from the daily violence of compulsory
schooling (spread across the world by Western civilization). If
only this had happened when we were kids![/quote]
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[quote] The Story Of... Smallpox – and other Deadly Eurasian
Germs
Much of the credit for European military success in the New
World can be handed to the superiority of their weapons, their
literary heritage, even the fact they had unique load-bearing
mammals, like horses. These factors combined, gave the
conquistadors a massive advantage over the sophisticated
civilisations of the Aztec and Inca empires.
But weapons alone can't account for the breathtaking speed with
which the indigenous population of the New World were completely
wiped out.
Within just a few generations, the continents of the Americas
were virtually emptied of their native inhabitants – some
academics estimate that approximately 20 million people may have
died in the years following the European invasion – up to 95% of
the population of the Americas.
No medieval force, no matter how bloodthirsty, could have
achieved such enormous levels of genocide. Instead, Europeans
were aided by a deadly secret weapon they weren't even aware
they were carrying: Smallpox.
In the era of global conquest which followed, European
colonizers were assisted around the world by the germs which
they carried. A 1713 smallpox epidemic in the Cape of Good Hope
decimated the South African Khoi San people, rendering them
incapable of resisting the process of colonization. European
germs also wreaked devastation on the aboriginal communities of
Australia and New Zealand.
More victims of colonization were killed by Eurasian germs, than
by either the gun or the sword, making germs the deadliest agent
of conquest.[/quote]
www.pbs.org/gunsgermssteel/variables/smallpox.html
[quote]Did Colonists Give Infected Blankets to Native Americans
as Biological Warfare?
There’s evidence that British colonists in 18th-century America
gave Native Americans smallpox-infected blankets at least
once—but did it work?[/quote]
www.history.com/news/colonists-native-americans-smallpox-blanket
s
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Americans Need to Eat 90% Less Meat for Planet to Survive,
Report Says
www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/humans-need-to-eat-less-meat/
[quote]In fact, humans need to eat 75% less red meat, 90% less
pork, and half as many eggs on average to both prevent the
environment-ravaging consequences of climate change and ensure
that there will be enough food to go around when the global
population surges to 10 billion later in the century.
.......
In the US and UK, for example, people need to eat 90% less red
meat and 60% less milk, while some low-income countries are
encouraged to eat more meat in the years ahead to improve
nutrition standards, but the authors note that such an increase
would be paltry compared to eating habits in Western countries.
.......
Meat production is one of the leading causes of deforestation,
which accelerates climate change and destroys ecosystems,
because of the large swaths of land required for cattle grazing.
Raising animals also requires huge amounts of animal feed, which
requires even more land to grow, and water.
Animal feed takes up around 36% of global farmland, while a
single pound of hamburger requires 600 gallons of water,
compared to 5 gallons for a pound of potato, according to the US
Geological Survey.
.......
Reducing meat production calls for more of the world’s farmland
to be used for high-yield, low-resource crops that put little
pressure on the planet and can feed as many people as possible.
These include legumes, grains, vegetables, and more.
.......
Meat consumption is high on the list of practices that need to
be dramatically scaled down if not nearly abandoned altogether,
according to the report.[/quote]
With some good information, however these issues are still be
framed around the terms "sustainable" and are thus from a
survivalist perspective.
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Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 2, 2020, 3:04 am
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OLD CONTENT contd.
Since ballet was brought up, for the record:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_ballet
[quote]Ballet is a formalized form of dance with its origins in
the Italian Renaissance courts of 15th and 16th centuries.
Ballet spread from Italy to France with the help of Catherine
de' Medici, where ballet developed even further under her
aristocratic influence. An early example of Catherine's
development of ballet is through 'Le Paradis d' Amour', a piece
of work presented at her daughter's wedding, Marguerite de
Valois to Henry of Navarre. Aristocratic money was responsible
for the initial stages of development in 'court ballet', as it
was royal money that dictated the ideas, literature and music
used in ballets that were created to primarily entertain the
aristocrats of the time. The first formal 'court ballet' ever
recognized was staged in 1573, 'Ballet des Polonais'. In true
form of royal entertainment, 'Ballet des Polonais' was
commissioned by Catherine de' Medici to honor the Polish
ambassadors who were visiting Paris upon the accession of Henry
of Anjou to the throne of Poland. In 1581, Catherine de' Medici
commissioned another court ballet, Ballet Comique de la Reine,
however it was her compatriot, Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx, who
organized the ballet. Catherine de' Medici and Balthasar de
Beaujoyeulx were responsible for presenting the first court
ballet ever to apply the principles of Baif's Academie, by
integrating poetry, dance, music and set design to convey a
unified dramatic storyline. Moreover, the early organization and
development of 'court ballet' was funded by, influenced by and
produced by the aristocrats of the time, fulfilling both their
personal entertainment and political propaganda needs.
In the late 17th century Louis XIV founded the Académie Royale
de Musique (the Paris Opera) within which emerged the first
professional theatrical ballet company, the Paris Opera Ballet.
The predominance of French in the vocabulary of ballet reflects
this history. Theatrical ballet soon became an independent form
of art, although still frequently maintaining a close
association with opera, and spread from the heart of Europe to
other nations. The Royal Danish Ballet and the Imperial Ballet
of the Russian Empire were founded in the 1740s and began to
flourish, especially after about 1850. In 1907 the Russian
ballet in turn moved back to France, where the Ballets Russes of
Sergei Diaghilev and its successors were particularly
influential.[/quote]
Western, check.
prezi.com/2llvv_y0vyvw/negative-effects-of-ballet-dancing-on-ana
tomy-physiology/
www.balletforadults.com/4-common-health-conditions-that-affect-d
ancers/
www.healthline.com/health/ballerina-feet
Health hazard, check.
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By the way:
[quote]en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-heeled_shoe#Health_impacts
Injury and pain[edit]
Wearing high-heeled shoes is strongly associated with injury,
including injury requiring hospital care. There is evidence that
high-heel-wearers fall more often, especially with heels >2.5cm
high,[21] even if they were not wearing high heels at the time
of the fall.[22] Wearing high heels is also associated with
musculoskeletal pain,[22] specifically pain in the paraspinal
muscles (muscles running up the back along the spine)[citation
needed] and specifically with heel pain and plantar calluses
(only women tested).[21]
A 2001 survey conducted by researchers from Pennsylvania State
University using 200 women found that 58% of women complained of
lower back pain when wearing heels and 55% of women said they
felt the worst overall back pain when wearing the highest
heel.[23] The researchers explained that as heel height
increases, the body is forced to take on an unnatural posture to
maintain its center of gravity. This changed position places
more pressure and tension on the lower lumbar spine which
explains why the women complained of severe back pain at a
higher heel length.
In a 1992 study, researchers from the University of California,
Davis and Thomas Jefferson University wanted to investigate the
effects of increased heel height on foot pressure using
forty-five female participants walking across a pressure plate
in various heel heights.[24] A Biokinetics software was used to
analyze the exact pressure locations on and along each
participants' foot. The researchers were able to conclude that
an increase in heel height lead to an increase in pressure
beneath each of the Metatarsal bones of the foot. Additionally,
they found that the highest heel heights caused constant
pressure that could not be evenly dispersed across the foot.
In a 2012 study, Kai-Yu Ho, Mark Blanchette and Christopher
Powers, wanted to determine if heel height increased
patellofemoral joint stress during walking.[25] The
patellofemoral joint refers to junction where the femur and
patella meet. The study consisted of eleven participants wearing
tracking and reflective markers as they walked across a 10-meter
force plated walkway in low, medium and high heels. The study
showed that as the height of the heel increased, the ball of the
foot experienced an increase in pressure resulting in increased
discomfort levels and peak patellofemoral joint stress. The
researchers also mentioned that the long term usage of high
heels would lead to repetitive overstress of the joint which
would result in an increase in pain and eventually,
patellofemoral joint osteoarthritis and Patellofemoral pain
syndrome.
In a 2012 study, researchers examined the risk long time high
heel wearers would have in regards to calf Muscle fascicle
length and strain.[26] The control group consisted of women who
wore heels for less than ten hours weekly and the experimental
group consisted of women who wore heels for a minimum of forty
hours weekly for at least two years. The experimental group was
told to walk down a walkway barefoot and in heels while the
control group walked down barefoot as cameras recorded their
movements to calculate muscle fascicle lengths. The data showed
that wearing heels shortened the length of the medial
gastrocnemius (MG) muscle fascicles in the calf significantly as
well as increasing stiffness in the Achilles Tendon. The
experimental group also demonstrated a larger amount of strain
on the muscle fascicles while walking in heels because of the
flexed position the foot is forced into. The researchers were
able to estimate that when wearing heels, the estimated fascicle
strains were approximately three times higher and the fascicle
strain rate was approximately six times higher. Additionally,
they were able to conclude that the long term usage of high
heels can increase the risk of injuries such as strain along
with discomfort and muscle fatigue.
Bunions[edit]
High-heeled shoes almost always have pointed toeboxes[27] which
do not fit around the toes, but displace them from their natural
position.
Wearing high-heeled shoes is associated with developing bunions,
a deformity of the foot.[22][21]
Balance control of the body[edit]
In 2016, scientists from the Department of Physical Therapy in
the Sahmyook University in Korea conducted a study to examine
the effects of increased heel height and gait velocity on
balance control.[28] Balance control refers to the ability of
the body to maintain itself along the line of the center of
gravity within a base of support. This must be achieved with
minimal postural sway velocity which is the horizontal movement
of a body trying to maintain balance when standing still.
Wearing high heels narrows the base of support that the body has
in order to avoid falling and also restricts the area within
which the body must sway. In this study, the participants were
told to wear either a low or high heel and walk at a low and
high speed on a treadmill. As a result of this experiment, the
researchers were able to conclude that as heel height increased,
the sway velocity of the bodies increased which also modified
the position of the knee joint. Muscles have to realign the
entire body especially the hips along the line of gravity. As
the weight of the body shifted forward, the hips were taken out
of alignment and the knee joints experienced stress in order to
adjust to the shift.
Postural effects[edit]
In a 2016 study from the Sahmyook University in Korea,
researchers wanted to investigate the effects of high heels on
the activation of muscles in the cervical and lumbar portions of
the spine which refers to the neck and lower back.[29] Thirteen
women were recruited to walk down a walkway in three different
testing conditions: barefoot, in 4 cm heels and in 10 cm heels.
Surface electrodes were placed on the muscle mass of the women's
spines as well as their feet to measure the electrical activity
of muscles at different points of movement. The results of the
study indicated an increase in both cervical and lumbar muscle
activation as heel height increased. The cervical spine, the
neck, assists in maintaining head stability and postural control
in the body. The usage of high heels shifts the body's center of
mass which forces the spine to adjust itself in order to
maintain balance. The researchers mentioned that over time these
results would increase local muscle fatigue that could lead to
muscle swelling, decreased muscle movement and even tissue
deformation.
Vein swelling[edit]
Further research reveals that another possible consequence of
wearing high heels is an increase of pressure in one's veins.
Experiments have proven that the higher the heel, the "higher
[the] venous pressure in the leg." This means that after
repeated use of high heels, varicose veins and other undesirable
symptoms are much more likely to appear in the legs.[18] Other
research supports these two claims when arguing that wearing
high heels can lead to numerous long term effects, including
accidental trauma to multiple areas of the body.[4][/quote]
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[quote]In recent years, surging numbers of infants have gotten
minor surgeries for “tongue tie,” to help with breastfeeding or
prevent potential health issues. But research suggests many of
those procedures could be unnecessary.[/quote]
getpocket.com/explore/item/why-so-many-babies-are-getting-their-
tongues-clipped?utm_source=pocket-newtab
What a wonderful world....
---
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingual_frenectomy
[quote]some South Korean parents have their children undergo
frenectomy "which lengthens the tongue by about one millimeter"
in the belief they will pronounce English better.[3][/quote]
And some people think Eurocentrism is not as bad as I say it is.
No, it's worse.
---
[quote]Forest fires burning in northern Ukraine are now just a
few kilometers from the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear plant.
Emergency services insist the fires are under control, but
environmental groups claim radiation levels are rising. The area
has been empty since the nuclear disaster in 1986.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayrrlp-XjIQ
---
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/17/us-coronavirus-peo
ple-of-color-pollution
[quote]For decades, organizations on the frontlines of
environmental justice have pleaded with politicians and
policymakers to pay attention to the public health impacts of
pollution on disadvantaged communities. Activists knew all too
well that toxins from industrial runoff and other sources were
shortening the lives of many brown and black Americans, but
policymakers rarely listened.
According to some estimates, more than 100,000 people die
prematurely from air pollution every year in America. About 25
million people – including 7 million children – have asthma. We
also know that a disproportionate share of those deaths are
composed of African Americans and Latinx people.
One of the reasons that black and brown communities are getting
infected and dying at higher rates from Covid-19 is the air they
breathe. A recent Harvard TH Chan school of public health study
confirmed that “people with Covid-19 who live in US regions with
high levels of air pollution are more likely to die from the
disease than people who live in less polluted areas”.
...
The term “the wrong complexion for protection” was coined by
Latinx environmental justice leaders more than 30 years ago and
popularized by Drs Robert Bullard and Beverly Wright in their
book by the same name, which highlighted how people of color
were disproportionately affected by toxic pollution.[/quote]
Western civilization will keep killing us until we kill it.
---
us.yahoo.com/news/people-stay-home-earth-turns-053219600.html
[quote]As people across the globe stay home to stop the spread
of the new coronavirus, the air has cleaned up, albeit
temporarily. Smog stopped choking New Delhi, one of the most
polluted cities in the world, and India’s getting views of
sights not visible in decades. Nitrogen dioxide pollution in the
n ortheastern United States is down 30%. Rome air pollution
levels from mid-March to mid-April were down 49% from a year
ago. Stars seems more visible at night.
People are also noticing animals in places and at times they
don't usually. Coyotes have meandered along downtown Chicago’s
Michigan Avenue and near San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. A
puma roamed the streets of Santiago, Chile. Goats took over a
town in Wales. In India, already daring wildlife has become
bolder with hungry monkeys entering homes and opening
refrigerators to look for food.
...
“It is giving us this quite extraordinary insight into just how
much of a mess we humans are making of our beautiful planet,”
says conservation scientist Stuart Pimm of Duke University.
“This is giving us an opportunity to magically see how much
better it can be.”[/quote]
Which is still only a small fraction of how much better it would
have been if Western civilization had never existed. It's not
generic humans making the mess, it's Westernized humans.
[quote]Researchers are tracking dramatic drops in traditional
air pollutants, such as nitrogen dioxide, smog and tiny
particles. These types of pollution kill up to 7 million people
a year worldwide, according to Health Effects Institute
president Dan Greenbaum.
The air from Boston to Washington is its cleanest since a NASA
satellite started measuring nitrogen dioxide,in 2005, says NASA
atmospheric scientist Barry Lefer. Largely caused by burning of
fossil fuels, this pollution is short-lived, so the air gets
cleaner quickly.
Compared to the previous five years, March air pollution is down
46% in Paris, 35% in Bengaluru, India, 38% in Sydney, 29% in Los
Angeles, 26% in Rio de Janeiro and 9% in Durban, South Africa,
NASA measurements show.[/quote]
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High microplastic concentration found on ocean floor
[quote]
Scientists have identified the highest levels of microplastics
ever recorded on the seafloor.
The contamination was found in sediments pulled from the bottom
of the Mediterranean, near Italy.
The analysis, led by the University of Manchester, found up to
1.9 million plastic pieces per square metre.
These items likely included fibres from clothing and other
synthetic textiles, and tiny fragments from larger objects that
had broken down over time.
The researchers' investigations lead them to believe that
microplastics (smaller than 1mm) are being concentrated in
specific locations on the ocean floor by powerful bottom
currents.
"These currents build what are called drift deposits; think of
underwater sand dunes," explained Dr Ian Kane, who fronted the
international team.
"They can be tens of kilometres long and hundreds of metres
high. They are among the largest sediment accumulations on
Earth. They're made predominantly of very fine silt, so it's
intuitive to expect microplastics will be found within them," he
told BBC News.[/quote]
www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52489126
Earth is becoming 'Planet Plastic'
[quote]US scientists have calculated the total amount of plastic
ever made and put the number at 8.3 billion tonnes.
It is an astonishing mass of material that has essentially been
created only in the last 65 years or so.
The 8.3 billion tonnes is as heavy as 25,000 Empire State
Buildings in New York, or a billion elephants.
The great issue is that plastic items, like packaging, tend to
be used for very short periods before being discarded.
More than 70% of the total production is now in waste streams,
sent largely to landfill - although too much of it just litters
the wider environment, including the oceans.
"We are rapidly heading towards 'Planet Plastic', and if we
don't want to live on that kind of world then we may have to
rethink how we use some materials, in particular plastic," Dr
Roland Geyer told BBC News.[/quote]
www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40654915
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8gfbKVQXz0
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Meat-Heavy Diets Now Kill More People Than Tobacco
www.livekindly.co/meat-heavy-diets-kill-more-people-than-tobacco
/
[quote] Eating a meat-heavy diet kills more than
smoking tobacco
A new study has shown meat-heavy diets have higher health risks
and may kill more people than tobacco.
Published in The Lancet journal, the study tracked consumption
trends in 195 countries by looking at data from between 1995 and
2017. Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, it shows
that a poor diet can be associated with one-fifth of deaths
worldwide.
Dr. Ashkan Afshin, an assistant professor of Health Metrics
Sciences at the University of Washington, and one of the study’s
authors characterized “poor diet” for CBS News.
He explained, “Poor dietary habits, which is a combination of
high intake of unhealthy foods, such as red meat, processed
meat, and sugar-sweetened beverages and a low intake of healthy
foods such as fruits, vegetables, nuts, whole grains, and seeds,
overall causes more deaths than any other risk factors
globally.”
The study elaborates that worldwide, the recorded dietary risk
factors contributed to 11 million deaths in 2017. CBS News
reported that unhealthy, meat-heavy diets are “responsible for
more deaths than tobacco and high blood pressure.”
However, the study also revealed that it isn’t just about
reducing the amount of red meat, processed meats and other risk
factors such as high sodium. The key is to include more healthy
dietary aspects, such as fruit, vegetables, and whole grains.
Afshin commented that public health advice should “focus on
healthy replacements for unhealthy foods” rather than simply
avoiding “unhealthy foods like processed meat and sugary
drinks.”
The study recommends increasing the amount of
nuts, seeds and whole grains
Health and Diet
The study follows a range of other investigations into the
effect of diet on issues such as heart disease.
A 2018 study by the American Heart Association (AHA) showed that
a vegan diet could help reduce inflammation, and therefore the
risk of heart disease. The eight-week study monitored 100
participants suffering from coronary artery disease.
Some followed a plant-based diet and some followed the
AHA-recommended diet, which allows small amounts of lean meats,
fish, eggs, and low-fat dairy products. The AHA found that those
on the vegan diet saw the best results, with inflammation
reduced significantly more compared to other groups.
A 2017 study had similar findings. It explained that by
replacing two servings of animal protein in your diet with two
servings of plant-based protein every day, cholesterol markers
could be reduced by five percent, lowering the overall chance of
developing heart disease.
The U.S. ranked 43rd in the number of diet-related deaths in the
most recent study, titled “Health effects of dietary risks in
195 countries, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global
Burden of Disease Study 2017”[/quote]
#Post#: 44--------------------------------------------------
Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 2, 2020, 3:09 am
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ehtrust.org/new-study-power-lines-linked-to-brain-tumors/
[quote]The journal Environmental Research has published a new
study entitled “Residential proximity to power lines and risk of
brain tumor in the general population” which found an increased
risk of brain tumors was associated with living near power
lines. Powerlines are a source of residential exposure to
magnetic field electromagnetic radiation (EMF) and repeated
research studies for decades have associated magnetic field
power-line frequency ELF-EMF from power lines to a type of
childhood leukemia.
In 2001 the International Agency for Research on Cancer
concluded that exposure to power-line frequency ELF-EMF is a
“possible” human carcinogen- a decision based largely evidence
of an increased risk for childhood leukemias with residential
exposure .
Kaiser Permanente researchers have published several studies
linking pregnant women’s exposure to magnetic field
electromagnetic fields to not only increased miscarriage and but
also increased ADHD, obesity and asthma in the woman’s
prenatally exposed children.[/quote]
So, which civilization invented power lines? (Hint: see title of
thread.)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overhead_power_line#History
[quote]The first transmission of electrical impulses over an
extended distance was demonstrated on July 14, 1729 by the
physicist Stephen Gray.[citation needed] The demonstration used
damp hemp cords suspended by silk threads (the low resistance of
metallic conductors not being appreciated at the time).
However the first practical use of overhead lines was in the
context of telegraphy. By 1837 experimental commercial telegraph
systems ran as far as 20 km (13 miles). Electric power
transmission was accomplished in 1882 with the first
high-voltage transmission between Munich and Miesbach (60 km).
1891 saw the construction of the first three-phase alternating
current overhead line on the occasion of the International
Electricity Exhibition in Frankfurt, between Lauffen and
Frankfurt.
In 1912 the first 110 kV-overhead power line entered service
followed by the first 220 kV-overhead power line in 1923. In the
1920s RWE AG built the first overhead line for this voltage and
in 1926 built a Rhine crossing with the pylons of Voerde, two
masts 138 meters high.[/quote]
And, going back to the first link, how did other Westerners
discover power lines are a health hazard?
[quote]Two published studies by the Ramazzini Institute
“Carcinogenic Synergism of S-50 Hz MF Plus Formaldehyde in Rats”
(2016) and “Life-span exposure to sinusoidal-50 Hz
magnetic field and acute low-dose γ radiation induce
carcinogenic effects in Sprague-Dawley rats” (2016) found that
ELF exposed rats had statistically significant increased
incidence of several type of malignant tumors when combined with
a known carcinogen.[/quote]
Western civilization damages even more health just to check that
it was damaging health!
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www.npr.org/2020/06/04/869936256/russian-power-plant-spills-thou
sands-of-tons-of-oil-into-arctic-region
[quote]Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared a state of
emergency after a giant diesel fuel spill in a remote Arctic
region 1,800 miles from Moscow.
...
Of the approximately 23,000 U.S. tons of oil products that
spilled into the environment, nearly 17,000 tons flowed into a
river, according to Russia's environmental inspection agency. By
comparison, the volume of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off
the coast of Alaska was about 39,000 tons of oil.
...
Dyachenko said on state television that the fuel reservoir at
the power plant may have collapsed because of thawing
permafrost, a result of global warming and a threat to
constructions across the Arctic region.[/quote]
Burning fossil fuels leads to global warming, which leads to the
same fuel getting spilled. The most important point is that none
of this would ever have happened if one particular civilization
never existed. Which one do you think it is?
[quote]restoring the ecological balance in the affected bodies
of water will take decades, according to Russia's Federal
Fisheries Service.
Environmentalists are criticizing the clean-up efforts on the
Ambarnaya River.
"The booms that were set up will only collect an insignificant
part of the pollution, so we can assert that almost all of the
diesel fuel will remain in the environment," Greenpeace Russia
said in a statement.[/quote]
So, which civilization invented diesel in the first place?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_fuel#Origins
[quote]Diesel fuel originated from experiments conducted by
German scientist and inventor Rudolf Diesel for his
compression-ignition engine he invented in 1892.[/quote]
Yep, the same one as usual.....
Further information:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_fuel#Hazards
[quote]NOx[edit]
...
Diesel engines, like other lean-burn (excess of oxygen in
proportion to the fuel) forms of combustion, recombine the
atmospheric oxygen (O2) and nitrogen (N2) into mono-nitrogen
oxides NO and NO2, collectively known as NOx, due to the high
temperature and pressure. While naturally present in the
atmosphere, their excess can contribute to smog and acid rain,
as well as influence human health after reacting with ammonia,
moisture, and other compounds.
...
Particles[edit]
...
Small particles (PM 2.5) can penetrate deeply into lung tissue
and damage it, causing premature death in extreme cases.[57]
Inhalation of such particles may cause or worsen respiratory
diseases, such as emphysema or bronchitis, or may also aggravate
existing heart disease.
...
Environment hazards of sulfur[edit]
High levels of sulfur in diesel are harmful for the environment
because they prevent the use of catalytic diesel particulate
filters to control diesel particulate emissions, as well as more
advanced technologies, such as nitrogen oxide (NOx) adsorbers
(still under development), to reduce emissions. Moreover, sulfur
in the fuel is oxidized during combustion, producing sulfur
dioxide and sulfur trioxide, that in presence of water rapidly
convert to sulfuric acid, one of the chemical processes that
results in acid rain.
...
Algae, microbes, and water contamination[edit]
...
There has been much discussion and misunderstanding of algae in
diesel fuel. Algae need light to live and grow. As there is no
sunlight in a closed fuel tank, no algae can survive, but some
microbes can survive and feed on the diesel fuel.[62]
These microbes form a colony that lives at the interface of fuel
and water. They grow quite fast in warmer temperatures. They can
even grow in cold weather when fuel tank heaters are installed.
Parts of the colony can break off and clog the fuel lines and
fuel filters.[63]
Water in fuel can damage a fuel injection pump; some diesel fuel
filters also trap water. Water contamination in diesel fuel can
lead to freezing while in the fuel tank. The freezing water that
saturates the fuel will sometimes clog the fuel injector
pump.[64] Once the water inside the fuel tank has started to
freeze, gelling is more likely to occur. When the fuel is gelled
it is not effective until the temperature is raised and the fuel
returns to a liquid state.
Road hazard[edit]
Diesel is less flammable than gasoline / petrol. However,
because it evaporates slowly, any spills on a roadway can pose a
slip hazard to vehicles.[65] After the light fractions have
evaporated, a greasy slick is left on the road which reduces
tire grip and traction, and can cause vehicles to skid. The loss
of traction is similar to that encountered on black ice,
resulting in especially dangerous situations for two-wheeled
vehicles, such as motorcycles and bicycles, in
roundabouts.[/quote]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_exhaust#Health_concerns
[quote]Emissions from diesel vehicles have been reported to be
significantly more harmful than those from petrol
vehicles.[42][better source needed] Diesel combustion exhaust is
a source of atmospheric soot and fine particles, which is a
component of the air pollution implicated in human
cancer,[43][44] heart and lung damage,[45] and mental
functioning.[46] Moreover, diesel exhaust contains contaminants
listed as carcinogenic for humans by the IARC (part of the World
Health Organization of the United Nations), as present in their
List of IARC Group 1 carcinogens.[7] Diesel exhaust pollution is
thought[by whom?] to account for around one quarter of the
pollution in the air in previous decades,[when?] and a high
share of sickness caused by automotive pollution.[47][better
source needed]
...
Exposure to diesel exhaust and diesel particulate matter (DPM)
is an occupational hazard to truckers, railroad workers,
occupants of residential homes in vicinity of a rail yard, and
miners using diesel-powered equipment in underground mines.
Adverse health effects have also been observed in the general
population at ambient atmospheric particle concentrations well
below the concentrations in occupational settings.
In March 2012, U.S. government scientists showed that
underground miners exposed to high levels of diesel fumes have a
threefold increased risk for contracting lung cancer compared
with those exposed to low levels. The $11.5 million Diesel
Exhaust in Miners Study (DEMS) followed 12,315 miners,
controlling for key carcinogens such as cigarette smoke, radon,
and asbestos. This allowed scientists to isolate the effects of
diesel fumes.[48][49]
For over 10 years, concerns have been raised in the USA
regarding children's exposure to DPM as they ride diesel-powered
school buses to and from school.[50]
...
Diesel particulate matter (DPM), sometimes also called diesel
exhaust particles (DEP), is the particulate component of diesel
exhaust, which includes diesel soot and aerosols such as ash
particulates, metallic abrasion particles, sulfates, and
silicates. When released into the atmosphere, DPM can take the
form of individual particles or chain aggregates, with most in
the invisible sub-micrometre range of 100 nanometers, also known
as ultrafine particles (UFP) or PM0.1.
The main particulate fraction of diesel exhaust consists of fine
particles. Because of their small size, inhaled particles may
easily penetrate deep into the lungs.[1] The polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the exhaust stimulate nerves in the
lungs, causing reflex coughing, wheezing and shortness of
breath.[52] The rough surfaces of these particles makes it easy
for them to bind with other toxins in the environment, thus
increasing the hazards of particle inhalation.
...
Exposures have been linked with acute short-term symptoms such
as headache, dizziness, light-headedness, nausea, coughing,
difficult or labored breathing, tightness of chest, and
irritation of the eyes, nose, and throat.[55] Long-term
exposures can lead to chronic, more serious health problems such
as cardiovascular disease, cardiopulmonary disease, and lung
cancer.[43][44][56] Elemental carbon attributable to traffic was
significantly associated with wheezing at age 1 and persistent
wheezing at age 3 in the Cincinnati Childhood Allergy and Air
Pollution Study birth cohort study.[57]
The NERC-HPA funded Traffic Pollution and Health in London
project at King's College London is currently[when?] seeking to
refine understanding of the health effects of traffic
pollution.[58] Ambient traffic-related air pollution was
associated with decreased cognitive function in older men.[46]
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Experiments in 2013 showed that diesel exhaust impaired bees'
ability to detect the scent of oilseed rape flowers.[63][/quote]
Meanwhile, rightists complain about protestors destroying motor
vehicles. If you ask me, the protestors in so doing are probably
improving national health.
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Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 2, 2020, 3:11 am
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Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 14, 2020, 1:38 pm
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