Toxics All Around Us
In our modern world, we are exposed to small amounts of toxics through various methods. It's in the food we eat, it's in our household products, it's in our air, and it's in our water. As much as we would rather not think about it, taking a blood test might reveal a chemical build up of up to 39 different pesticides and harmful chemicals that will never go away. Environmental health organizations around the country are working to expose the truth about the dangers we all face to prevent diseases that will eventually catch up with us. [- see this Washington Study for details]
If you live in the Pacific Northwest, exposures to benzene, fine particulate matter from wildfires and agricultural field burning, and chemical exposures through aerial sprays in rural areas are almost inescapable. If you live in a home that was built before 1978, which consists of 80% of the homes in America today, lead exposure from old paint can be built up your body. Teflon from clothing and non-stick cooking ware are prevalent in most humans. [ see the Oregon Toxics Alliance for more info]
Living a healthy life seems to be quite a daunting task. I became a vegetarian due to the concerns of mercury in fish, the arsenic that's fed to chicken, the genetically engineered corn being used in high fructose corn syrup (which is in your soda and store bought juices), and not to mention all the antibiotics. Synthetic hormones, cloned meat, and excessive pesticides and fertilizers all are a part of the diet of the everyday American. The safety of certain ingredients manufactured by Monsanto, Bayer, and other bio tech companies are questionable with MSG, aspartame, and chemical coatings that could be attributing to colony collapse disorder. Pollution is continuing to accumulate in conjunction with respiratory and cardiovascular ailments.
Our world is struggling to cope with energy resources, food supplies, and an unstable economic future. In my eyes, the world will need nothing short of a savior to correct itself and provide stability for all. Some recent articles and comments on talk radio suggest that American is headed for a great depression. What can we all do at this point? I suppose we can change our lifestyles, but I doubt it will be enough. I suggest prayer or meditation. Peace.
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If common sense could describe global warming, perhaps common math can do similar. Using volume math, based on the assumption of shrinking the earth to the size of a small orange or baseball perhaps, would give us a breathable air space of less then the thickness of a human hair. The volume of product brought up to the surface is simply crowding us out. An estimate using my Windows Calculator suggests we have brought up enough oil product to coat the entire planet with an oil slick approaching 1/16" in thickness, based on possible peak oil amounts. I would be interested if such math has been done on the matter. I did not figure volumes of natural gas, coal or the more scarce diamond, as my ex suggested her diamond was not a factor.
Surely commons sense suggests we are simply crowding out our own environment with a carbon excrement that is growing daily, and getting more foul. Toxic poisoning by carbonation perhaps. Which suggests even carbonated beverages out gassing daily may be a factor. Every tank of vaporized gasoline we know adds to the carbon build up, not forgetting the out gassing of asphalt as it deteriorates, natural gas and coal product combustibles, etc. I don't know at what height the carbon collects, but the inside of that larger area above us must have an increased molecular coating of carbon that simply has to be recovered and placed back in the ball, or we are perhaps simply running out of space. The solution seems simple, stop bringing up product, and determine a way to put the carbon above us back where it came from. Or it may already be too late.
I read that it is better to die than commit murder; perhaps we homo sapiens must die so that Mother Earth may live. It is a possible scenario, if one frees the mind of religious superstition.
I may be in error on my simple math calculation, but have scientists considered the simplicity of the argument?
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