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Plastic kills – let's stop treating it like a normal part of modern life

The oceans are now so full of man-made detritus that our health is being put at risk too. About a third of fish caught off the coast of the UK now contain traces of plastic. Some plastics contain diethylhexyl phthalate, which is toxic and thought to be carcinogenic. When you bear in mind that British seafood eaters may ingest more than 10,000 pieces of plastic each year, it’s obvious that plastic has been a complete disaster for health.

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september 2017 by asterisk2a

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Future of Steel - Ken Clarke & Paul Mason - BBC Newsnight

[TORIES CRISIS: bedroom tax, JSA sanctions killing people, Food Banks, redefining child poverty and fuel poverty, Independent Living Fund closed, Housing Crisis, tax cut defeat in Lords, mental health, NHS strikes, Hinkley Point C, energy prices, London Airport expansion/3rd runway, ESA cut, PIP cut and resignation of IDS, Brexit splitting the Party, shit world economy, can't touch triple-lock pensions, Academy plans, Panama Papers (British Territory: Bahamas, Cayman & Co).] Now - Tories are victims to their own policy of underinvestment since 2010 of a future-proof economy "long-term predictability" [BREXIT & austerity not predictable]. Energy prices too high, not competitive. Manufacturing never recovered. Monetary policy has run its course (sedative + Chinas credit bubble). policy folly now wholly exposed! AND now they tinker with the idea of picking winners! LOL! nationalising or part-nationalising through guarantees or subsidies on energy price. & youtu.be/QJw24Z-cEoQ

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april 2016 by asterisk2a

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Whale CSI: why sperm whales are washing up dead on British shores | Environment | The Guardian

Heavy metals are now so concentrated in fish that pregnant women and small children are advised to eat no more than two portions of affected fish in a week.

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february 2016 by asterisk2a

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Drug Residues in Meat | NutritionFacts.org
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december 2015 by asterisk2a

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You'll Never Guess The Biggest Cause of Inflammation Causing Free Radicals - YouTube

selenium, nutrients, - vs oil and fried foods ( Acrylamide ), meat (cooked, burned, ...) + arachidonic acid.

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november 2015 by asterisk2a

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Omega 3s, Prostate Cancer, and Atrial Fibrillation | NutritionFacts.org

GMO in Fodder aka animal feed, livestock feed. and Fodder also can contain ground up meat waste from other animals (see “mad cow” disease instance). farmed fish eating ground up male chicken. Or in EU pig fodder (Schweinefutter) containing too high toxin called dioxin ( http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs225/en/ ). Or in other instance added hormones to fatten pigs quicker that show up in the meat and are thus hormones that people ingest unkowingly, low-dose long-time, ... // in a commercialised profit driven environment, nothing is wasted. NOTHING. If the consumer doesn't eat the ground up food waste, then its processed and added to Fodder. // Do you really know what you are eating?

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october 2015 by asterisk2a

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Global Capitalism: September 2015 Monthly Update - YouTube

Private Education (Charter Schools) that get public money, without the public being involved in decision-making how to spend that public money ... were outlawed/illegal, by Seattle Judges 6-2. //&! Tax exception of universities. Yale (4th richest uni of USA with 20bn in endowments) is being subsidized by people of the 7th poorest state. no property tax (largest land owner & employer in New Haven (Connecticut)). Public Services (Fire, Police, Hospitals) & Infrastructure. //&! min 41 Greg Mankiw: carbon tax would discriminate (burden too much) the middle class & poor with no wage growth last 30 yrs in disposable income vs corporates, well off, Super Rich, 1%. Rebuttal: tax more progressively those who can afford it. The crux of a carbon tax & tobin tax, setting it nationally, corporate lobby that it "will" be anti-competitive. Destroy Jobs. // 47:35 Science & Money. 1:09:20 Hegemony 1:22:20 public transport, US dogma; THE CAR! Committed 2 Private Free Enterprise. << Ideology. LA traffic

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october 2015 by asterisk2a

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How Soviet pollution destroyed the Aral Sea - BBC News

[ one example. doesn't mean its the last one ] In October 1990 Western scientists confirmed the virtual disappearance of the Aral Sea in Soviet Central Asia, formerly the fourth largest inland sea in the world.The loss of sea water was the result of 60 years of intensive agriculture and pollution by the Soviet authorities. It is considered the biggest manmade loss of water in recorded history. The surrounding areas were devastated. Local fisherman watched as the shore gradually receded and fish stocks ran out. Local children fell victim to respiratory illnesses. Professor Denys Brunsden, of London's King's College, was one of the first Western scientists to visit the Aral Sea in 1990. //&! Volunteers map UK coastline for industrial damage - bbc.in/1GSy6ZT - science led management; new artificial strip on coast changed things and beach stripped itself of sand ... //&! Beach litter 'increasing', says Marine Conservation Society - bbc.in/1xat2Q6

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october 2015 by asterisk2a

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How humans are driving the sixth mass extinction | Environment | The Guardian

Scientists have been warning for decades that human actions are pushing life on our shared planet toward mass extinction. Such extinction events have occurred five times in the past, but a bold new paper finds that this time would be fundamentally different. Fortunately, there’s still time to stop it.

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october 2015 by asterisk2a

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What's going on in UK manufacturing? - BBC News

Manufacturing abt 10% of UK output. The rest of the production industries: mining, quarrying, gas, electricity, water and sewage account for another 5%. The service sector accounts for 79%, with construction making up the final 6%. In the last decade, manufacturing grew gradually from 2005 to 2008, at which point it took a dive in the financial crisis in common with the rest of the economy. It recovered from 2010 until the start of 2012 and has been pretty volatile since then. The sector is still below its pre-crisis peaks, unlike the service sector, which is well above its pre-crisis level. [...] the sector had been "stunned by a triple combination of a sharp slowdown in consumer spending, weak business investment and stagnating export order inflows". But most of the big headlines have been about one sector: steel [ energy price not competitive & bust of commodity prices blown up by ZIRP, NIRP & QE ] [ why not lower energy prices for all!?] & bit.ly/1hPrPrn &! bbc.in/1jRMjRF

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october 2015 by asterisk2a

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SEASPIRACY: What You Should Know About Fish, The Ocean, and More! - YouTube

fish pellets (heavy metals) are fed to on land livestock. ... do you know what is fed to your beef? fish pellets?! GMO crop!? what you piece of meat has been treated with (antibiotics, medication, supplements, etc)?! no. no disclosure. no transparency. no accountability. //&! http://nutritionfacts.org/?s=fish

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october 2015 by asterisk2a

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Bangalore's lake of toxic foam – in pictures | World news | The Guardian

[ we have only one planet, its all connected. ] IT professional Debasish Ghosh has been documenting toxic foam in the Indian city’s polluted lake system. The snowy froth, a cocktail of chemicals and sewage, has a pungent odour and causes irritation on contact with the skin

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october 2015 by asterisk2a

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Is it OK to eat farmed salmon now? | Environment | The Guardian

"ethical killing." we deny people suicide, assisted dying. but kill and eat other beings not so unsimilar to use. and search for ethical means now, defining what is ethical. double standard. one for animal called human because we are so evolutionary advanced. and another for animals not similar to us. // //After years of bad press, salmon farms are signing up to new certification standards in a bid to prove their environmental and social credentials

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september 2015 by asterisk2a

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Q&A With Durianrider & Freelee - YouTube

MAKE BETTER CHOICES. not abt being perfect. living in the woods running arnd naked // we just have 1 planet but we live like we have 1.4-1.6 // make common sense (science peer reviewed) educated decisions. self-awareness. consciousness. mindfulness // bullshit excuses; comfortably unaware, inconvenient truth. white lies. PR/spin doctor - reframing. denialists. denial. apathy, Perspektivlosigkeit (boogie and co). GIVEN UP ON URSELF, WHEN U ARE STILL IN CHARGE. &! youtu.be/7yovAflZrN4 SMALL CHANGES! remember; there is an addiction component to it & forming new habits is hard! // like to hear, being sold, consuming advice abt keeping bad habits. // long-term cost, economic damage, people cant see (project exponential/linear) (ie retirement savings, compound) // there is an alternative. // its for each an individual personal journey. there is no straight line. // &! youtu.be/W7mqWcSM8ts #2 - FOCUS ON LONG-TERM HEALTH & FITNESS! NOT MICRO MANAGING. &! water weight (low sodium intake).

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september 2015 by asterisk2a

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5 Reasons to STOP eating FISH [warning graphic] - YouTube

http://nutritionfacts.org/?s=Fish //&! NOBODY ELSE CAN BE AS MUCH CARING TO LOOK AFTER U AS U SHOULD LOOK AFTER URSELF. intrinsic motivation. enlightenment. self-education. informed decision. ethical machine. consciousness. instead comfortably unaware. inconvenient truth. out of sight, out of mind. consumer habit = consumer has it in their hands. // small dose of antibiotics, long-term exposure by spin doctors (reframing) is too small 2 make u sick. // Fukushima fallout = radioactive seafood. // see also nutritionfacts.org/?s=ALS - ALS (& other neurodegenerative diseases) onset/occurrence among population correlates with seafood consumption among population. // The Planet, the environment/ecology is a Public Good. //&! youtu.be/TS9hh-Npc50 - MILK INDUSTRY! - nutritionfacts.org/?s=milk &! youtu.be/0O-ehIkwGME &! youtu.be/TJvrlwnEqbs &! youtu.be/E-PQCCiw_Zs // corporate media reliant on ad$, cant report truthfully&weekly (aka destroy) on culprits of sick population. the food industry!

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september 2015 by asterisk2a

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Wasser: Mineralwasser, Leitungswasser - Welches ist am besten? - SPIEGEL ONLINE

Eine Gefahr droht dagegen aus der Politik: Das Handelsabkommen TTIP könnte dazu führen, dass die eher strengen europäischen Regeln für den Einsatz von Pestiziden aufgeweicht werden. "Zum Beispiel dürfen amerikanische Äpfel mit einem fünfmal so hohen Restgehalt des Gifts Captan verkauft werden, als in Europa erlaubt ist", sagt Ole Braukmann von Hamburg Wasser. Er fürchtet, dass die deutschen Bauern bald ebenfalls mehr spritzen: "Für den Gewässerschutz kann die diskutierte Angleichung der Gesetze einen Rückschritt in die Siebzigerjahre bedeuten."

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september 2015 by asterisk2a

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BBC News - Life expectancy in Scotland increases

"Men in the least deprived areas of Scotland may live 12.5 years longer than those in the most deprived areas while women in the least deprived areas could expect to live 8.5 years longer than those in the most deprived."

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october 2014 by asterisk2a

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Smog-Bekämpfung: Peking will Kohleverbrauch drastisch senken - SPIEGEL ONLINE

... also neighbouring countries are too often badly affected. ie South Korea --- http://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/2derl4/beijing_plans_to_ban_coal_burning_by_2020/

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august 2014 by asterisk2a

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Stanford biologist warns of early stages of Earth's 6th mass extinction event

In a new review of scientific literature and analysis of data published in Science, an international team of scientists cautions that the loss and decline of animals is contributing to what appears to be the early days of the planet's sixth mass biological extinction event. [...] And while previous extinctions have been driven by natural planetary transformations or catastrophic asteroid strikes, the current die-off can be associated to human activity, a situation that the lead author Rodolfo Dirzo, a professor of biology at Stanford, designates an era of "Anthropocene defaunation." // Book http://bit.ly/M47bEd "our own downfall at our own hands. Domino's are falling." - Guardian Series: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/series/sixth-extinction || http://bit.ly/1jzy1Ol Naomi Klein: This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate

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july 2014 by asterisk2a

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How much your meat addiction is hurting the planet - The Washington Post

corp amasses shareholder value while we the stakeholders of planet earth .... --- via http://www.reddit.com/r/vegan/comments/2agot7/large_oxford_study_the_average_meateater_in_the/

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july 2014 by asterisk2a

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BBC News - Brazil Olympics: Rio bay 'will not be clean for 2016'
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june 2014 by asterisk2a

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Writing is on the wall for air pollution thanks to air-cleansing poem - News releases - News - The University of Sheffield
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may 2014 by asterisk2a

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China: Trinkwasser und Böden sind mit Schadstoffen verseucht - SPIEGEL ONLINE
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april 2014 by asterisk2a

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Why Do We Age? - YouTube

continued caloric restriction - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwJASNFy9XQ + about pollution - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZTZxXIDchw | Food Chain - Pollutants accumulate in body fat. + Arsenic pollution in the food chain from Industrial Farming Industry - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUiT6u4zAlc || http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-26560558 + http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-26888930

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april 2014 by asterisk2a

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How Much Climate-Change Denial Can the Market Bear? | VICE News

Market analysts anticipated none of these because their focus is the economy, NOT the environment. Those guys are looking to make money, while scientists are overwhelmingly in agreement that not only is global warming happening, but that the worst is yet to come.

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april 2014 by asterisk2a

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Arktis: Umweltverschmutzung vergiftet Eismöwen - SPIEGEL ONLINE

Bei Seevögeln und anderen Tieren vor allem auf den oberen Stufen der Nahrungskette sammeln sich diese Schadstoffe im Körper an.

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august 2013 by asterisk2a

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Why Are So Many Dolphins Washing Up Dead on the East Coast? | Surprising Science

“Males don’t have a mechanism for shedding contaminants,” he says. “The females shed significant amounts of their lipid-soluble contaminants through lactation, so the calf gets a hell of a dose early on in life, and some of the most outrageous levels of contaminants we’ve seen have been in calves.” It’s possible that the overall buildup of contaminants in these animals—along with other stresses attributable to human activity, such as increased noise and competition for space and food with humans—is making them more susceptible to infectious pathogens. + http://www.economist.com/node/18741749

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august 2013 by asterisk2a

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The Pitfalls Of Politburo Planning: Pollution Produces Cancer | Zero Hedge
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july 2013 by asterisk2a

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Hot Dogs & Leukemia | NutritionFacts.org

90-95% of Cancer Risk is the Environment. Diet and Lifestyle (ie too much sun exposure, air pollution, water pollution, excessive cell phone usage, carcinogens in product like make-up, smoking, lack of exercise, alcohol).

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may 2013 by asterisk2a

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News Bummers: Poison Fog, Sad Sperm & SAM - YouTube
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april 2013 by asterisk2a

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Pigs, Ducks, Black Swans, Chickens And Now Fish: The Shanghai Animal Apocalypse Accelerates | Zero Hedge
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april 2013 by asterisk2a

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BBC iPlayer - Our World: Born Under a Bad Sign ( Iraq records huge rise in birth defects )

Yalda Hakim travels to Iraq to investigate the staggering rise in the numbers of babies born with birth defects and cancer since the start of the war ten years ago. + - chemicals in weapons over time, toxic environment, causes a rise in cancer and birth defects - led and mercury poisoning http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/iraq-records-huge-rise-in-birth-defects-8210444.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/30/faulluja-birth-defects-iraq http://www.globalresearch.ca/depleted-uranium-far-worse-than-9-11/2374

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march 2013 by asterisk2a

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Chinese Anger Over Pollution Becomes Main Cause of Social Unrest - Bloomberg

“The environment has become a problem the people are very concerned about, including me,” Fu said. “Every morning I open the curtains to see if there’s any haze.” The burning of coal is the main source of pollution in Beijing, according to estimates by Greenpeace and Peking University’s School of Public Health. Power companies have a social responsibility to reduce emissions, China Huadian Corp. President Yun Gongmin said yesterday. The company, one of China’s largest state-owned electricity producers, plans to spend as much as 6 billion yuan (964.9 million) this year on units to strip emissions of sulfur and nitrates. “The continuous air haze in Beijing is so pathetic,” Yun said yesterday. “Watching people wearing anti-toxin mask in the capital is pretty embarrassing. Nobody wants to live in a polluting city for fear of getting diseases within two to three years.”

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march 2013 by asterisk2a

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$20 trillion shale oil find surrounding Coober Pedy 'can fuel Australia' | News.com.au

SOUTH Australia is sitting on oil potentially worth more than $20 trillion, independent reports claim – enough to turn Australia into a self-sufficient fuel producer.
>> potential for a US-style “shale oil” boom in [South Australia]
>> The Wall Street Journal reported last week the US could pass Saudi Arabia as the world's largest oil producer this year, thanks to the shale oil explosion.

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january 2013 by asterisk2a

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BBC News - Nations agree on legally binding mercury rules
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january 2013 by asterisk2a

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Study finds unsafe mercury levels in 84 percent of all fish - CBS News

A new study from the Biodiversity Research Institute in Maine found that 84 percent of fish have unsafe levels of mercury. That poses a health risk for humans, exceeding the guidelines for eating certain kinds of fish more than once a month.

"Many of the tuna fish we eat, for example, swim in the South China Sea, and that's mercury pollution that comes into cans and into our pantries every day,"

The proposed U.N. treaty calls for: filtering mercury emissions out of burning coal; cutting mercury use in gold mining; reducing its use in manufacturing of electronic switches and batteries.

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january 2013 by asterisk2a

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