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Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: April 6, 2021, 1:10 am
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Just another day in Western civilization:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KPXxh97H40
TYT is far too superficial in only blaming big business for
this. There was big business in ancient times too but no such
problems. Why not? The real problem is not big business, but
Western machines.
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Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: rp
Date: April 6, 2021, 9:49 am
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As usual, by trying to "solve" the problem, Westerners create
more problems:
Millions of gallons of wastewater being pumped into Tampa Bay;
officials say 'no second breach' at Florida reservoir
HTML https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/04/06/piney-point-reservoir-wastewater-leak-tampa-bay-tuesday-updates/7103688002/
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Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: rp
Date: April 6, 2021, 12:08 pm
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FLASHBACK: 2011 Roundup - ARYANISM (eerie prediction)
HTML http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/2011-roundup/
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> Many of us in the Northern hemisphere are probably going to
die of cancer in a few decades from the Fukushima radiation if
something else (e.g. the rumoured “superbug” biological weapon)
doesn’t kill us first. And all signs point to next year being
even worse.
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#Post#: 5405--------------------------------------------------
Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: guest5
Date: April 7, 2021, 11:42 pm
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How Victorians Knowingly Poisoned Their Food | Hidden Killers |
Absolute History
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> Dr Suzannah Lipscomb show us the dangerous ways the Victorians
adulterated food and its deadly consequences.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkQ0RFTHvIo
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> KenDBerryMD
> 11 months ago
> It's fascinating, and frightening, how humans have been
poisoning other humans in the name of profit for centuries...
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> InsecureCow
> 4 days ago
> “One thing Victorians used to love, was profits...”
>
> You say that like that has changed
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When can we get a full psychological analysis of Westerners and
Western culture, because I suspect most of them are raving
lunatics who just manage to keep their lunacy undercover most of
the time?
Another example of what I mean in the sentence above:
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> San Diego, California began water fluoridation in February
2011, despite its Municipal Code Section 67.0101, which
prohibits the city from fluoridating. The local ordinance was
preempted by California law that requires fluoridation when an
outside funding source is available.
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HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_in_the_United_States
Most of these people should be in straight-jackets in a psych
ward at this point. Why are we allowing them to roam freely
among the sane? How is that going to end well?
#Post#: 5495--------------------------------------------------
Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: guest5
Date: April 11, 2021, 3:37 pm
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> A new paper by the World Wildlife Fund reports that 30% of
freshwater fish species is threatened with extinction. 80
species have already gone extinct, of which 16 went extinct in
2020 alone. 19 of the extinct species were found in the U.S.
>
> Since the 1970s, there has been an average decline of 76% in
migratory freshwater fish and a 94% decline in megafish, or fish
heavier than 30 kg. Researchers believe this loss is due to many
human factors, including climate change, pollution, overfishing,
and harming ecosystems with dams, irrigation, and draining.
>
> Freshwater fish make up 51% of known fish species, despite
freshwater ecosystems covering just 1% of Earth's surface.
Freshwater fish provide the main source of animal protein for at
least 200 million people and have an estimated value of $138
billion.
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[img]
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> GRAY WOLF
> 4 hours ago
> They'll destroy the very ground they walk on for profit.
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>
> Dean
> 3 hours ago
> When the last tree has fallen
> And the rivers are poisoned
> You cannot eat money, oh no - The Seed by Aurora
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At least no new fish will be brought into existence to be
tortured and tormented by humans.
See also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-sustainable-evil/
#Post#: 5497--------------------------------------------------
Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: Zea_mays
Date: April 11, 2021, 3:50 pm
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--- Quote ---
> "Japan Says Sorry, But It Has to Dump This Fukushima
Radioactive Water Into the Ocean.
>
> Moving Ahead. Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga says that
the government has put off figuring out what to do with all of
the contaminated water building up at the destroyed Fukushima
Daiichi nuclear power plant for long enough - and it's time to
start dumping it into the ocean.
>
> Suga's hand is forced given that the plant will soon run out
of space to store the contaminated groundwater seeping into the
facility, The Japan Times reports, and he's framing the
controversial plan to release the water into the Pacific Ocean
as "Unavoidable."
>
> Japanese officials have been debating how to best contain the
radioactive water at the Fukushima plant for years, but the plan
that seems to have stuck is to purify the water as best as
possible, dilute the radioactive tritium that persists even
after the cleaning process, and to dump it over the course of 30
years."
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HTML https://futurism.com/the-byte/japan-sorry-dump-radioactive-water-ocean
Meanwhile, Western civilization junkies are celebrating that
Biden has embraced nuclear energy for the US because it's "safe"
and "really is 'clean' energy because it doesn't produce that
much waste"...
Just think, if the oldest dynasties of ancient Egypt used
nuclear reactors, the waste would still be toxic today and for
thousands of more years. Just think, ONE mishap and Japan is
going to be doing damage control for the next 30+ years at the
least.
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> As of 2014, there have been more than 100 serious nuclear
accidents and incidents from the use of nuclear power.
Fifty-seven accidents or severe incidents have occurred since
the Chernobyl disaster, and about 60% of all nuclear-related
accidents/severe incidents have occurred in the USA.[10] Serious
nuclear power plant accidents include the Fukushima Daiichi
nuclear disaster (2011), the Chernobyl disaster (1986), the
Three Mile Island accident (1979), and the SL-1 accident
(1961).[11] Nuclear power accidents can involve loss of life and
large monetary costs for remediation work.[12]
>
> Nuclear-powered submarine accidents include the K-19 (1961),
K-11 (1965), K-27 (1968), K-140 (1968), K-429 (1970), K-222
(1980), and K-431 (1985)[11][13][14] accidents. Serious
radiation incidents/accidents include the Kyshtym disaster, the
Windscale fire, the radiotherapy accident in Costa Rica,[15] the
radiotherapy accident in Zaragoza,[16] the radiation accident in
Morocco,[17] the Goiania accident,[18] the radiation accident in
Mexico City, the radiotherapy unit accident in Thailand,[19] and
the Mayapuri radiological accident in India.[19]
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HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accidents_and_incidents
With a basic understanding of probability, if the risk is
non-zero, it will happen if given enough time... (And this isn't
even considering nuclear weapons, which are even more dangerous
and would never have existed without Homo hubris's quest to
harness nuclear power).
Meanwhile, we have this free energy source called the Sun.
HTML https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Smiling_Sun_English_Language.svg/240px-Smiling_Sun_English_Language.svg.png
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiling_Sun
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Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: April 11, 2021, 11:47 pm
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"if the risk is non-zero"
And even if the risk were zero, the mere quantity of energy
generated by Western methods is responsible for enabling human
population explosion, which itself scales up in quantity every
other form of human damage to the environment that is occurring
constantly. So it's not just when Western civilization
malfunctions that it is hazardous; it is also hazardous when it
functions as intended!
"Meanwhile, we have this free energy source called the Sun."
Moreover, which provides energy/unit area at a fixed rate, thus
automatically precluding population explosions.
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Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: guest5
Date: April 16, 2021, 1:13 am
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Antony Blinken sparks backlash over his support for Japan's
wastewater dumping
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> On April 13, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken thanked
Japan for its decision to release contaminated water from the
Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea, prompting a backlash
in the comments section of Blinken's Twitter post.
> According to research in 2012 by Helmholtz Center for Ocean
Research Kiel (GEOMAR), a marine research institute in Germany,
It would only take 57 days for the radioactive materials from
Japan's contaminated water to spread to most of the Pacific
Ocean, three years to reach the coastal areas of the U.S. and
Canada, and 10 years to spread worldwide.
> Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Zhao Lijian claimed that
the world should not face the consequences of Japan's actions.
Japan's fishing industry in Fukushima and many other countries
also opposed this plan.
> Russian government expressed "serious concern" over Japan's
plan, South Korea’s president Moon Jae-in ordered officials to
explore petitioning an international court over Japan's
decision.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzTinxldDxg
Fukushima radioactive waste water to be dumped into the sea
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> The Japanese government on Tuesday approved plans to release
more than 1 million metric tons (1.1 million US tons) of
radioactive water from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant into
the ocean two years from now. The controversial plan was
approved following years of heated wrangling and despite
concerns from neighboring countries. In response, the South
Korean foreign ministry summoned Japan's top envoy to Seoul.
South Korea's Vice Foreign Minister Choi Jong-moon met with
Japanese Ambassador Koichi Aiboshi, according to officials. Choi
was expected to express regrets and lodge a protest during the
meeting.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT6OQM3GaUk
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Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: April 25, 2021, 10:39 pm
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On the energy inefficiency of Western civilization:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt
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> A laborer over the course of an eight-hour day can sustain an
average output of about 75 watts; higher power levels can be
achieved for short intervals and by athletes.[4]
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I would imagine that light labour such as sweeping the floor
would actually require significantly less than 75W, but let's
assume it is 75W. People all around the world have been happily
sweeping floors for thousands of years, and then Western
civilization came along:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_cleaner
--- Quote ---
> The first vacuum-cleaning device to be portable and marketed
at the domestic market was built in 1905 by Walter Griffiths, a
manufacturer in Birmingham, England.[12] His Griffith's Improved
Vacuum Apparatus for Removing Dust from Carpets resembled
modern-day cleaners; – it was portable, easy to store, and
powered by "any one person (such as the ordinary domestic
servant)", who would have the task of compressing a bellows-like
contraption to suck up dust through a removable, flexible pipe,
to which a variety of shaped nozzles could be attached.
>
> In 1906 James B. Kirby developed his first of many vacuums
called the "Domestic Cyclone". It used water for dirt
separation. Later revisions came to be known as the Kirby Vacuum
Cleaner. In 1907 department store janitor James Murray Spangler
(1848–1915) of Canton, Ohio invented the first portable electric
vacuum cleaner,[13] obtaining a patent for the Electric Suction
Sweeper on 2 June 1908. Crucially, in addition to suction from
an electric fan that blew the dirt and dust into a soap box and
one of his wife's pillow cases, Spangler's design utilized a
rotating brush to loosen debris.[14] Unable to produce the
design himself due to lack of funding, he sold the patent in
1908 to local leather goods manufacturer William Henry Hoover
(1849–1932), who had Spangler's machine redesigned with a steel
casing, casters, and attachments, founding the company that in
1922 was renamed the Hoover Company. Their first vacuum was the
1908 Model O, which sold for $60. Subsequent innovations
included the beater bar in 1919 ("It beats as it sweeps as it
cleans"),[15] disposal filter bags in the 1920s, and an upright
vacuum cleaner in 1926.
>
> In Continental Europe, the Fisker and Nielsen company in
Denmark was the first to sell vacuum cleaners in 1910. The
design weighed just 17.5 kg (39 lb) and could be operated by a
single person. The Swedish company Electrolux launched their
Model V in 1921 with the innovation of being able to lie on the
floor on two thin metal runners.[16] In the 1930s the Germany
company Vorwerk started marketing vacuum cleaners of their own
design which they sold through direct sales.
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So how does a vaccuum cleaner compare?
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> After August 2014, due to EU rules, manufacture of vacuum
cleaners with a power consumption greater than 1600 watts were
banned within the EU, and from 2017 no vacuum cleaner with a
wattage greater than 900 watts was permitted.[28][29]
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So taking into account the newest environmental regulations,
suppose a vaccuum cleaner consumes 750W. That is still a full
order of magnitude more than 75W! In other words, the broom is
(at least) 10x better than the vaccuum cleaner purely
operationally. And that doesn't even take into account how much
more resources are required to manufacture a vaccuum cleaner
than a broom, nor how much heavier a vaccuum cleaner is, or how
much NOISIER, etc..
The overwhelming inferiority of Western civilization can be seen
literally everywhere if only we care to pay attention.
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Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: April 29, 2021, 10:20 pm
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It's OK for breathing to be "white":
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/people-color-breathe-more-hazardous-191448101.html
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> Over the years, a mountain of evidence has brought to light a
stark injustice: Compared with white Americans, people of color
in the United States suffer disproportionately from exposure to
pollution.
>
> Now a new study on a particularly harmful type of air
pollution shows just how broadly those disparities hold true.
Black Americans are exposed to more pollution from every type of
source, including industry, agriculture, all manner of vehicles,
construction, residential sources and even emissions from
restaurants. People of color more broadly, including Black and
Hispanic people and Asian Americans, are exposed to more
pollution from nearly every source.
>
> The findings came as a surprise to the study’s researchers,
who had not anticipated that the inequalities spanned so many
types of pollution.
>
> “We expected to find that just a couple of different sources
were important for the disparate exposure among racial ethnic
groups,” said Christopher W. Tessum, an assistant professor in
environmental engineering and science at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who led the study. “But what we
found instead was that almost all of the source types that we
looked at contributed to this disparity.”
>
> The study builds on a wealth of research that has shown that
people of color in America live with more pollution than their
white neighbors. Fine particulate matter air pollution, known as
PM 2.5, is harmful to human health and is responsible for 85,000
to 200,000 excess deaths a year in the United States.
> ...
> They found that nearly all emissions sources caused
disproportionate exposures for people of color, on average, as
well as separately for Black, Hispanic and Asian people. Black
people were exposed to higher-than-average concentrations from
all major emissions groups, while white people were exposed to
lower-than-average concentrations from almost all categories.
The disparities were seen nationally as well as at the state
level, across income levels and across the urban-rural divide.
>
> These findings were consistent with the experiences of
communities on the ground, said Robert D. Bullard, a professor
at Texas Southern University who has written for more than 30
years about the need to redress environmental racism, who was
not involved in the study.
>
> “If you go to communities of color across this country and ask
them, ‘What’s the source of the environmental problems?’ they
can point you to every one: the highway, the chemical plants,
the refineries, the legacy pollution left over from decades ago,
in the houses, in the air, in the water, in the playgrounds,” he
said. “Empirical research is now catching up with the reality:
that America is segregated and so is pollution.”
>
> On Wednesday, the Environmental Integrity Project, a nonprofit
group founded by former officials from the EPA, released a
separate report that found that 13 refineries across the United
States had released elevated levels of benzene, another harmful
pollutant, into mostly minority and lower income neighborhoods
in 2020.
>
> These disparities have roots in historical practices, like
redlining, under which the federal government marked certain
neighborhoods as risky for real estate investments because their
residents were Black. For decades, residents of redlined areas
were denied access to federally backed mortgages and other
credit, fueling a cycle of disinvestment and environmental
problems in those neighborhoods.
>
> “Communities of color, especially Black communities, have been
concentrated in areas adjacent to industrial facilities and
industrial zones, and that goes back decades and decades, to
redlining,” said Justin Onwenu, a Detroit-based organizer for
the Sierra Club. “And a lot of our current infrastructure, our
highways, were built on — built through — Black communities, so
we’re breathing in diesel emissions and other pollution just
because we’re located right next to these highways,” Onwenu
said.
>
> The latest research, published Wednesday in the journal
Science Advances, shows how that legacy continues to cast a
shadow. Emissions from industry, construction and both light-
and heavy-duty vehicles were among the sources that caused the
largest absolute disparities for Black, Hispanic and Asian
Americans.
> ...
> The coronavirus pandemic, which has taken a disproportionate
toll on Black, Latino and other communities, added to the
burdens.
>
> “A lot of families have kids with asthma. There’s high rates
of respiratory illness. Many people have died from cancer and
other types of diseases,” said Vivian Huang, a director at the
Asian Pacific Environmental Network, which works with
communities that live at the fence line of refineries and other
polluting facilities in California. “The COVID pandemic has just
exacerbated these immense inequalities.”
> ...
> “When nearly every major source category in the U.S.
disparately impacts people of color, reducing sources alone is
really insufficient to solve this problem,” he said. “We have to
think about where the sources are as well.”
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