Pollution
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Pollution contributes to 16% of all deaths in 2015, with the majority of deaths coming from air pollution.[1]
Global Research reports that "approximately 19 million premature deaths are estimated to occur annually... and that is just the cost in human lives" from pollution.[2]
Examples
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| DDT | Originally developed as an insecticide, thanks to ineptitude (and possibly corruption) used without second guesses as to what it's health impacts may be. |
| Depleted uranium | Depleted uranium is a toxic substance that better had been prohibited by international treaties decades ago, but American generals don't want to give up this capability. |
| Fashion industry | |
| Fracking | An increasingly desperate method to prolong the age of fossil fuels, one that threatens to cause long term harm to the biosphere, not only in the longer term by fueling climate change, but in the much nearer term by polluting drinking water. |
| PFAS | |
| Planned obsolescence | Designing things to break early. |
| Plastic waste | A form of pollution. |
| Superfund sites |
Related Quotations
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
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| 9-11/Premature death | “[...] a lot of symptoms that were consistent with neurotoxic poisoning. Those were just the physical symptoms and in some cases people reported, that their hair fell out and even their dental work fell out. And to me they were consistent with signs of radiation poisoning. But however, the toxic cocktail that had been burning there, I think a California group went and analyzed and pretty much came out with the determination that there are about 900 contaminants, 200 different kind of dioxins, we had the particulate matter, the asbestos, the concrete.” [...] “What is interesting is that, we were, anytime we were ill or not feeling right, the September eleven help services and the red cross would try to get us into counseling and, to me at the end of all of this, it seemed that we experienced the same thing that the gulf war, or other civilians who were exposed to local superfund site disasters, we were all told it was in our head. That's exactly what went on down at 911.” ... “It wasn't until I went to a detox program. We got together with everyone else and compared symptoms, that we realized that this was an epidemic.” | Indira Singh | |
| Li Keqiang | “Smog is affecting larger parts of China, and environmental pollution has become a major problem, which is nature's red-light warning against the model of inefficient and blind development.” | Li Keqiang Xi Keqiang | 2014 |
| Lawrence Summers | “I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that...I've always thought that under-populated countries in Africa are vastly UNDER-polluted” | Lawrence Summers |
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