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Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: guest5
Date: April 30, 2021, 12:29 am
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Why 99% of ocean plastic pollution is "missing"
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> The plastic we dump into the ocean might be hiding in plain
sight.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsjvwQclGLo
Toxic waste dump site more than twice the size of Manhattan
discovered in Pacific Ocean
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> A massive underwater toxic waste site has long been suspected
off the Southern California shore, since industrial companies
used the ocean as a dumping ground until 1972. Now marine
scientists have identified over 25,000 barrels they believe
contain the toxic chemical "DDT" in the Pacific Ocean. Stephanie
Sy talks to David Valentine, a UC Santa Barbara professor of
microbiology, about the barrels.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xyy1ypRG_Q
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Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: guest5
Date: May 1, 2021, 5:03 pm
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Fukushima nuclear polluted water has potential impact on North
America's West Coast
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> The Japanese government recently announced it would start
releasing treated but still radioactive wastewater from the
Fukushima nuclear plant in about two years, and the U.S.
government supports the plan. CGTN's Mark Niu takes a look at
some of the reactions along the North American Pacific Coast.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27OHs8oF54Y
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> So it becomes an experiment....
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> We can at least learn something from it....
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The only honest lesson to learn from it is that Western
civilization is a health hazard!
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> Wandering Questions
> 5 hours ago
> If they release it, track it, and then ‘see what it does’, it
appears too late to do anything about any problems that come up.
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> Discover China探索中国
> 5 hours ago
> US is still supporting Japan's decision of the release of the
Fukushima nuclear polluted water even they know it will poses
-ve impact on North America's West Coast, this is just sad to
see......
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> Ayush bhagwat
> 4 hours ago (edited)
> This is not the first time something like this is happening
and You know when’ll this stop?
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> When it’s too late
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> Tee Pee
> 5 hours ago
> Someone has to stop them.... That’s crazy and could harm all
of us that swim in the oceans
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Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: guest5
Date: May 4, 2021, 12:17 am
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Patrick Radden Keefe: The Story Of Purdue Pharma Is ‘A Crime
Story’
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> Patrick Radden Keefe joins Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss his
new book “Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler
Dynasty” and describes how the Sackler family changed the
perception of how dangerous and addictive opioids were, the
“shocking” paper trail of “what they knew and when they knew it”
and the billions in profit they pulled out of Purdue Pharma
while the company “was engaged in criminal misconduct.”
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Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: Zea_mays
Date: May 5, 2021, 10:34 pm
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In operation for 6 years and 50 years later, they are still
decontaminating it. But it's "clean" energy somehow.
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> This 298,400lb nuclear waste cask and the dolly trailer used
to transport it. Not my video, but I live nearby. It is coming
from West Valley Demonstration Project in NY, a spent fuel
reprocessing facility that was only in operation from 1966-1972.
It has been undergoing decontamination ever since.
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All I can think of when I read about "self-driving" cars is that
highway scene from the Matrix...
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> Authorities in Texas say two people were killed when a Tesla
with no one in the driver’s seat crashed into a tree and burst
into flames, Houston television station KPRC 2 reported.
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> The cause of the crash, which happened at about 9PM local time
in Spring, Texas (near Houston), is under investigation.
According to KHOU in Houston, first responders had to use 30,000
gallons of water over four hours to put out the fire, as the
Tesla’s battery kept reigniting. Authorities tried to contact
Tesla for advice on putting out the fire; it’s not clear whether
they received any response.
> [...]
> Preliminary reports suggest the car was traveling at a high
rate of speed and failed to make a turn, then drove off the road
into a tree. One of the men killed was in the front passenger
seat of the car, the other was in the back seat, according to
KHOU. Harris County Precinct 4 Constable Mark Herman told KPRC
that “no one was driving” the fully-electric 2019 Tesla at the
time of the crash. It’s not yet clear whether the car had its
Autopilot driver assist system activated.
> [...]
> There have been at least 23 Autopilot related crashes under
investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration, but this appears to be the first fatal crash
where there was no driver in the driver’s seat. Tesla has
previously cautioned its customers that Autopilot is not an
autonomous driving system and still requires constant attention
to the road while in use.
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HTML https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/18/22390612/two-people-killed-fiery-tesla-crash-no-driver
Why not invest in expanding rail and bus transit instead? Not
even mentioning bikeable infrastructure... But seriously,
imagine if all the brains, time, and money that went into
researching this went into researching optimal bus transit
patterns instead of car traffic patterns? Or building intra-city
rail networks? Many subway trains are already driverless!!!
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automated_train_systems
lol
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Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: May 5, 2021, 10:41 pm
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As I have always said, anyone who thinks travelling by car is a
good idea should be forced to push their car for the whole
length of their intended journey. That is how much additional
energy cars cost (compared to walking).
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Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: guest5
Date: May 5, 2021, 11:38 pm
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And, even with electric vehicles the cost of having to replace
the batteries negates any savings you may have accumulated from
not buying gas. Not to mention lithium mining and exploitation
to produce the batteries in the first place.
The U.S., especially states like California, have been built
upon the foundations of automobile culture. It is almost
impossible to live in many large Western cities these days
without owning a car. The entire infrastructure is dedicated to
their existence.
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Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: guest5
Date: May 5, 2021, 11:41 pm
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Bayer and the bees | DW Documentary
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> Insecticides are sometimes necessary in farming. But some
substances, like neonicotinoids, kill not only pests but bees as
well. Now the Bayer Group, one of the main manufacturers of
these pesticides, is coming under pressure.
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> Scientists around the world have found that neonicotinoids are
the main cause of mass bee deaths. Research has shown that a
number of insecticides should have been banned long ago. For
years, the Bayer Group has sought to silence the critics and
pressure scientists into not publishing their findings.
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> For more than two decades, experts have been warning of the
negative effects of neonicotinoids, with a whole range of
studies published on the subject. It would appear that the
industry, aided by the authorities, managed to successfully
delay any ban on these substances for years. Studies show that
neonicotinoids not only kill pests, but also bees and other
beneficial insects. Dutch toxicologist Henk Tennekes was among
the first to recognize the problem. He believes neonicotinoids
are the most toxic insecticides ever produced. He discovered a
study carried out by Bayer itself, back in 1991, which found
that a particular neonicotinoid had a negative effect on the
nervous system of a fly species. These effects were said to be
"irreversible”. Tennekes then confronted the company with his
findings. He was taken aback by the response: "Bayer now claims”
he says, "that the binding of critical receptors in the nervous
system by neonicotinoids is reversible. So they’re contradicting
the results of their own study. ... If they had considered what
impact this substance has, they would have had to take it off
the market."
>
> Scientists in France also analyzed mass bee deaths and
likewise identified an insecticide made by Bayer as the culprit.
Toxicologist Jean-Marc Bonmatin reveals how the company then
sought to prevent the results from being published. Meanwhile,
toxicologists in Japan discovered that neonicotinoids also harm
other creatures, such as fish and river crabs. There too, Bayer
sought to suppress publication.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaNSByf4sLA&list=TLPQMDYwNTIwMjHfplOKnl0N3w&index=1
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> Bayer played a key role in the Wirtschaftswunder in post-war
West Germany, quickly regaining its position as one of the
world's largest chemical and pharmaceutical corporations. In
2006, the company acquired Schering, in 2014, it acquired Merck
& Co.'s consumer business, with brands such as Claritin,
Coppertone and Dr. Scholl's, and in 2018, it acquired Monsanto,
a leading producer of genetically engineered crops, for $63
billion.[9] Bayer CropScience develops genetically modified
crops and pesticides.
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HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer
Once the Bees are gone most other life will follow shortly
thereafter....
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Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: May 5, 2021, 11:53 pm
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"Once the Bees are gone most other life will follow shortly
thereafter...."
That would be a good thing. But you can bet Western civilization
will step in at the last moment to prevent species extinction.
Then once species are in no danger of extinction, Western
civilization will resume killing any number of individual
victims:
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Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: guest5
Date: May 6, 2021, 12:12 am
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>
> "Once the Bees are gone most other life will follow shortly
thereafter...."
>
> That would be a good thing. But you can bet Western
civilization will step in at the last moment to prevent species
extinction. Then once species are in no danger of extinction,
Western civilization will resume killing any number of
individual victims:
>
>
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I think the plan is actually robotic drone bees to be honest....
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Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: Zea_mays
Date: May 6, 2021, 12:28 am
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Leave it to Western Civilization to invent a Rube Goldberg
pollinating machine when you could just do it with a piece of
cloth on a stick:
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> In parts of rural China, humans are doing the work bees once
did.
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> Striking new photos show farm workers in Hanyuan county, in
China’s Sichuan province, painstakingly applying pollen to
flowers by hand.
>
> Hanyuan county is known as the “world’s pear capital.” But
pesticide use has led to a drastic reduction in the area’s bee
population, threatening the fruit crop. Workers now pollinate
fruit trees artificially, carefully transferring pollen from
male flowers to female flowers to fertilize them.
>
> For photographer Kevin Frayer, the images of human pollinators
tell a story of both loss and human creativity.
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> “On the one hand it’s a story about the human toll on the
environment, while on the other it shows our ability to be more
efficient in spite of it all,” Frayer told The Huffington Post.
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HTML https://www.huffpost.com/entry/humans-bees-china_n_570404b3e4b083f5c6092ba9
If the pesticides directly poisoned the bees, then that is an
unfortunate amount of initiated violence against them. However,
at least millions of future generations of bees will never
become victims of birth or future poisonings if the species goes
extinct. The pesticides certainly do poison the humans who have
to spray them on the crops, however! Another health hazard
brought to us by Western Civilization.
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