Environmental Emergency
The earth seems to be at the brink of crisis.
Articles about strange disease trends are popping up almost daily around the world.
Long term human health is being ignored unsustainably, in favor of political and corporate interests. No matter what your beliefs or interests, unsustainable means it is outside of limits that allow long term survival. It may be months not years, until this budding crisis gets the attention that the "European" economic crisis is getting.
1) Mystery disease kills thousands in Central America.
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Mystery-disease-kills-thousands-in-Central-America-3288301.php
The timing of rises in Kidney disease in Ghana, India and Israel might suggest the problem is related to long term toxicity of a specific "safe" pesticide marketed heavily in the last fifteen years.
2) Cancer Mysteriously Ravages German Village.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,813852,00.html
3) Concerns over cost-cutting at new ABC HQ.
4) Cancer survivor calls for link investigation.
5) Wider cancer study.
http://www.toledoblade.com/Editorials/2012/01/21/Wider-cancer-study.html
6) Effects of genetically modified foods.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/12/monsantos-gmo-corn-linked_n_420365.html cites http://www.biolsci.org/v05p0706.htm
7) Swimming in sick seas.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/20/animal-diseases-increasingly-plague-the-oceans/
8) "The Food Standards Agency has sought to allay any fears about eating lamb, although little is known about the virus so far."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9106270/Mystery-virus-kills-thousands-of-lambs.html
Remember Mad Cow Disease? Don't worry. No wait. Do worry.
9) Autism has increased significantly in recent decades, and the increase may be accelerating.
10) Chemicals in the Gulf of Mexico (from BP oil spill?) on your dinner plate.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/04/201241682318260912.html?view=all
Why is this in AlJazeera but not the New York Times?
11) Dead dolphins and seabirds off the coast of Peru.
Peru's second most populous area, Trujillo, and its fourth most populous area, Chiclayo, both lie on Peru's Northwest coast, where the currents flow northward. Trujillo is especially dependent on irrigated agriculture, and the associated pesticides. This may or may not be related to a mass die off of dolphins, and another of Pelicans in April and May 2012.
12) Is wastewater injected into the ground causing earthquakes?
(This page is just started but will have items added as they appear in the news.)
