From The Associated Press 19 March 2018: -------------------------------------------------------------- Federal environmental regulators say they'll consult with states on managing contamination from a range of long-used non-stick coatings. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Monday it would hold a May summit with state officials. The session will focus on a family of industrial chemicals used for decades in everything from non-stick pans to food wrappers to bags for microwaveable popcorn. The chemicals are known as perfluoralkyls and polyfluoralkyls, or PFAs. Studies now link long-term exposure to the industrial chemicals to increased risks of cancer, hormone changes and other disturbances. Researchers say water supplies serving millions of Americans show potentially dangerous levels of the contaminants. -------------------------------------------------------------- article
If we're not concerned enough to get busy on police murders of unarmed citizens or school/mass shootings I really don't think as a society we're going to ever get around to concern for the biological system that renders human life even possible. Surely corporate power will look after us.
Shhhh. We'll get "I burn diesel constantly, just to show that my Uncle's skiing trip still goes ahead" types
From NPR 22 March 2018: ---------------------------------------------- Between California and Hawaii, there's a teeming patch of garbage that's stretched over an area more than double the size of Texas. ...In total, "we estimate 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic floating in this area," Lebreton says. Plastic items that have broken down to very small pieces – also called microplastics – are most worrying because ocean animals can ingest them, then they work their way up the food chain. ---------------------------------------------- article
Paper sacks and deposit/return glass milk jugs and pop bottles are far, far superior to plastics. We've been going backwards for seventy years. Canvas shoulder sacks are even better than paper. You own them.
How's the effort to regulate violent video games (that some mass murderers have used for training on target acquisition including the record holding Norwegian) ??
