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Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: October 9, 2020, 12:19 am
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But back to oil spills:
HTML https://us.yahoo.com/finance/news/u-oil-well-leaked-gases-155407224.html
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> An oil well site in the Permian Basin owned by a bankrupt
shale producer has spewed polluting gases into the atmosphere
for 10 months, despite being investigated by Texas regulators,
according to an environmental group.
>
> Infrared video footage collected during multiple visits from
November 2019 through September show “continuous intense and
significant” emissions from faulty valves and tank hatches at
MDC Energy LLC’s Pick Pocket location in West Texas, Earthworks
said in a letter to two state regulatory agencies on Thursday.
The group called on the Texas Commission on Environmental
Quality and the Texas Railroad Commission to rescind permits for
MDC.
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Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: guest5
Date: October 9, 2020, 12:56 am
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The Ozone Depletion Phenomenon (1996)
Chapter: The Ozone Depletion Phenomenon
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> Although, two decades ago, most scientists would have scoffed
at the notion that industrial chemicals could destroy ozone high
up in the atmosphere, researchers now know that chlorine creates
the hole by devouring ozone molecules. Years of study on the
ground, in aircraft, and from satellites has conclusively
identified the source of the chlorine: human-made chemicals
called chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) that have been used in spray
cans, foam packaging, and refrigeration materials.
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HTML https://www.nap.edu/read/9042/chapter/1
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Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: October 19, 2020, 11:40 pm
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiQqByQnq4o
So, which civilization invented tritium? Answer: the same one
that invented all the other stuff that never should have
existed.
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium#History
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> Tritium was first detected in 1934 by Ernest Rutherford, Mark
Oliphant, and Paul Harteck after bombarding deuterium with
deuterons (a proton and neutron, comprising a deuterium
nucleus). Deuterium is another isotope of hydrogen.[2][3]
However, their experiment could not isolate tritium, which was
later accomplished by Luis Alvarez and Robert Cornog, who also
realized tritium's radioactivity.[4][5]
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At this point, how can anyone still be on the fence about
whether or not Western civilization needs to die?
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Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: guest5
Date: October 22, 2020, 12:27 pm
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Area burned in Indonesia fires ‘greater than the Netherlands’
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> Greenpeace slams Indonesia for lack of action against the palm
oil sector as vast areas of forests burned in five years.
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> Tropical forest and peatland areas bigger than the Netherlands
have burned in Indonesia in the past five years, Greenpeace has
said, lambasting President Joko Widodo’s government for allowing
the pulpwood and palm oil sector to act with impunity despite
bearing “considerable responsibility” for the fire crisis.
>
> In a new report on Thursday, the prominent environmental group
said some 4.4 million hectares (9.9 million acres) of land have
burned in Indonesia between 2015 and 2019.
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HTML https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/10/22/area-burned-in-indonesia-fires-greater-than-the-netherlands
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> History
>
> Oil palms (Elaeis guineensis)
>
> Humans used oil palms as far back as 5,000 years. In the late
1800s, archaeologists discovered a substance that they concluded
was originally palm oil in a tomb at Abydos dating back to 3,000
BCE.[5] It is believed that traders brought oil palm to
Egypt.[citation needed]
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> Palm oil from E. guineensis has long been recognized in West
and Central African countries, and is widely used as a cooking
oil. European merchants trading with West Africa occasionally
purchased palm oil for use as a cooking oil in Europe.
>
> Palm oil became a highly sought-after commodity by British
traders for use as an industrial lubricant for machinery during
Britain's Industrial Revolution.[6]
>
> Palm oil formed the basis of soap products, such as Lever
Brothers' (now Unilever) "Sunlight" soap, and the American
Palmolive brand.[7]
>
> By around 1870, palm oil constituted the primary export of
some West African countries, although this was overtaken by
cocoa in the 1880s with the introduction of colonial European
cocoa plantations.[8][9]
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HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_oil
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Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: October 29, 2020, 3:18 am
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynVdViXUzic
Same questions as always:
1) Which civilization introduced these chemicals into existence?
2) If Western civilization hadn't done so, would any other
civilization in the world have done so?
3) Therefore, which civilization must die?
#Post#: 1897--------------------------------------------------
Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: guest5
Date: October 31, 2020, 1:15 am
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The power of the pharmaceutical companies | DW Documentary
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> How much is a human life worth? An innovative cancer therapy
promises to save lives. But it is extremely expensive. Will the
insurance companies pay for it? What is the manufacturer's
return on investment? And do lobbyists drive up prices?
>
> In 2018, the Kymriah gene therapy was approved in Europe.
Immune cells are taken from the patient, genetically
reprogrammed into cancer killer cells and returned to the
patient as an infusion. The results of the Kymriah study only
cover a period of 18 months. In 40 percent of patients, lymph
gland cancer does not return during this time. It is not clear
whether Kymriah has a long-term effect. The Swiss pharmaceutical
company Novartis offers the new therapy - it costs 370,000 Swiss
francs per patient. Health insurance companies are not usually
prepared to pay that much and are complaining about a lack of
transparency.
>
> But the killer cells were not invented in the Novartis
laboratories, but at a US university. When Professor Carl June
started his research almost 30 years ago, no pharmaceutical
company was interested. It was only thanks to funding from tax
money and donations that he was able to develop Kymriah at all.
After a story went around the world about a girl with leukemia
whose cancer disappeared thanks to Kymriah, the pharmaceutical
company contacted Novartis and secured exclusive marketing
rights. To launch Kymriah on the market, Novartis funded the
necessary clinical trials. It's not an isolated incident: Over
60% of newly approved medicines in the US are developed by small
biotech companies or universities. Pharmaceutical companies
today frequently act as capital providers, cooperating with
universities or buying up biotech companies.
>
> A paradigm shift has taken place in the pharmaceutical
industry: Whereas high drug prices used to be justified by
research costs, the industry is now using the value of gained
lifetime to argue its case.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LelUHLl-xM
#Post#: 1903--------------------------------------------------
Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: guest5
Date: October 31, 2020, 12:18 pm
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New book says U.S. military is poisoning the Pacific
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> A new book says American military operations have been
contaminating the Pacific region for decades. What's the story,
and what important questions does it raise?
>
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4_rEibIbpU
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Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: guest5
Date: November 6, 2020, 11:53 pm
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How Humans Destroyed 60% of All Wildlife Over Half a Century |
NowThis Earth
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> Humans have decimated 2/3 of all wildlife since 1970,
according to a new report from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). In
the same time frame, the human population doubled to 7.4
billion.
>
> 'We are driving species extinct,' says WWF Chief Scientist Dr.
Rebecca Shaw.
>
> The biggest losses have taken place in Latin America and the
Caribbean. The report finds that much of this is due to habitat
destruction and species exploitation, where animals are sold as
food or pets — further contributing to viruses spreading from
animals to humans.
>
> But Dr. Shaw remains optimistic because of action taken by
millennials and Gen Z.
>
> '2020 is really the year to act.'
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa3MbiMDjhM
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Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: November 7, 2020, 2:16 am
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> 'We are driving species extinct,'
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To clarify, species extinction in itself is a good thing. It is
initiation of violence against individuals which we oppose. But
of course False Leftists do not understand this.
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> In the same time frame, the human population doubled to 7.4
billion.
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The real problem is that species extinction is occurring not as
part of an overall reduction in number of individuals, but as a
side effect of total increase in number of individuals.
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Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: guest5
Date: November 10, 2020, 10:46 pm
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Delhi residents complain of breathlessness as air quality
worsens
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> New Delhi’s overall air quality index reached its highest
levels since last November and stood more than 30 times the WHO
safe limit.
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HTML https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/11/10/delhi-residents-complain-of-breathlessness-as-air-quality-worsens
The industrial revolution was a western phenomenon which spread
globally....
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