Whatto! Peeps....
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| Is our Planet really in good hands? |
....and the future of Human Existence is at risk.....
.....and we're ALL responsible.
Author Joseph Jenkins in his fascinating book entitled "The Humanure Handbook"....
....draws a comparison between traditional human activity and that of dangerous Pathogens as they destroy their host.
- Although the natural background rate of extinctions on Earth is estimated to be about one to ten species per year, we are currently losing 1,000 species per year.
- Since the 1950s, more than 750 million tons of toxic chemical wastes have been dumped into the environment.
- By the end of the 1980s, production of human made synthetic organic chemicals linked to cancer had exceeded 200 billion pounds per year, a hundred-fold increase in only two generations.
- By 1992, in the U.S. alone, over 435 billion pounds of carbon-based syn-thetic chemicals were being produced.
- In 1994, well over a million tons of toxic chemicals were released into the environment. Of these, 177 million pounds were known or suspected car- cinogens.
- There are now about 75,000 chemicals in commercial use, and 3,750 to 7,500 are estimated to be cancer-causing to humans
- The United States has 1,231 “priority” Superfund (Hazardous waste) sites, with 40 million people (one in every six Americans) living within four miles of one.
- 40% of Americans can expect to contract cancer in their lifetimes.
- 80% of all cancer is attributed to environmental influences.
- Breast cancer rates are thirty times higher in the United States than in parts of Africa.
- Childhood cancers have risen by one third since 1950 and now one in every four hundred Americans can expect to develop cancer before the age of fifteen.
- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency projects that tens of thousands of additional fatal skin can- cers will result from the ozone depletion that has already occurred over North America.
- Male fish are being found with female egg sacs, male alligators with shriveled penises, and human male sperm counts are plummeting.
- The average person can now expect to find at least 250 chemical contaminants in their body fat.
- Fifty new diseases have emerged since 1950, including Ebola, Lyme’s Disease, Hantavirus, and HIV.23
- Earth's atmospheric concentrations of CO2 have climbed to the highest levels for 150,000 years.
It's sobering reading....but he also puts forward a series of suggestions to improve our situation.
Tallyho!
Best Wishes - Lord Noel