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发表于 2012-8-25 10:25
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[Homework] Bits of knowledge: the story of stuff 20110410
So next, the materials move to production, and what happens there is we use energy to make toxic chemicals in with the natural resources to make toxnic contaminated products.
There are over 100,000 sythetic chemicals in using commerce today, only a handful of them have even been tested for health impacts and none have been tested for * health impacts, that means when they interact with all other chemicals were exposed every day, so we don't know the full impact on health and environment of all these toxic chemicals, but we do know one thing, toxics in, toxics out. As long as we keep putting toxic into our industrial production systems, we are gonna keep getting toxics in stuff that we bring into our homes, walk places, and schools and down our bodies. Like BFRs, * flamed with *, there are chemicals that make things more fair approved, but they are super toxic. there are * toxicant, that means toxic to the brain. What are we even doing using a chemical like this? Yet we put it in our computers, our appliance, couches, mattresses, even some pillows, in fact, we take our pillows, we * them in the nerotoxicant, through bring them home, and put our heads on them for eight hours at night to sleep. I don't know, but it seems to me in this country with so much potential, we could think of a better way to stop our heads from catching on the fire at night.
Now this toxics build up the food chain and concentrate our bodies. Do you know what is the food at the top of the food chain with highest level of many toxic contaminates? Human breast milk, that means we have reach at a point with the smallest members of our societies. Our babies are getting the highest lifetime dose of toxic chemicals from the breast feeding from their mothers. Is that not an incredible violation? Breast feeding must be the most fundamental human active nuturing, it should be secret and safe, the breast feeding is still the best, and mother should definitely keep breast feeding, but we should protect it. They should protect it, I thought they are looking out for us. And of course, the people who bear the biggest brought of these toxic chemicals are the factory workers. Many of whom are women of productive age, they are working with reproductive toxics, * and more. Now I ask you, what kind of woman of reproductive age will work in a job exposed to reproductive toxics? Except for a woman with no other options. And that is one of the beauties of this system.
The erosion of the local environments and the ecomomies here ensure a constantly supply of people with no other options, globally 200,000 people a day are moving from environments that have sustained them for generations into cities, many to live in slums(贫民窟), looking for work no matter how toxic that work may be. So you see it is not just the resources that are wasted along the system but people too, whole communities get wasted.
Yet, toxics in, toxics out, a lot of the toxics leaves in the factories and products, but even more leaves by products or pollution. And it is a lot of pollution. In the US, our industry admits to release over 4 billion pounds of toxic chemicals a year, there is probably a lot more because that's what they only admit. So that is another limit, because yark who wants to look at and smell 4 billion pounds of toxic chemicals a year. So what they do, move the dirty factories overseas, pollute someone else's land, but surprise, a lot of that pollutions is coming right back at us carried by wind currents, so what happens after all those natural resources turned into the products? |
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