Pollution
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| A killer of millions of humans and uncountable other life forms per year, but not one that has had a high profile in corporate media. |
Pollution contributes to 16% of all human deaths in 2015.[1] Global Research reports that "approximately 19 million premature deaths are estimated to occur annually... [from pollution] and that is just the cost in human lives".[2]
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“Today we are living the grotesque spectacle of the poisoning of the earth by the nineteenth-century hero system of unrestrained material production. This is perhaps the greatest and most pervasive evil to have emerged in all of history, and it may even eventually defeat all of mankind. Still there are no "twisted" people whom we can hold responsible for this.”
Ernest Becker (1976) [3]
Air pollution
Air pollution is the most deadly form of pollution to humans.[1] A 2019 study suggested that it was responsible to approximately 107,000 premature deaths in the USA per year.[4]
Soil pollution
Pesticides and herbicides can accumulate in soil and present both short or long term threats to health, both to producers and consumers of agricultural products. Some of these such as DDT have been banned, others are in the process, while others (such as glyphosate) have only recently been recognised as potentially dangerous.
Forever chemicals
The United States is cross contaminated with chemicals that will not disintegrate, summarized under the term "PFAS".[5][6] Other parts of the world are exposed to this kind of chemicals as well.
Alternatives
Organic farming is the production of food without use of inorganic chemicals.
Ocean pollution
Micropastic pollution of oceans suddenly emerged as a favourite of the commercially-controlled media after the 2017 Bilderberg at which Boyan Slat spoke on the topic.
Military
The militaries of the nations on the planet are a big contributing factor to worldwide pollution; foremost the United States military.
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/10/20/study-global-pollution-worlds-biggest-killer-and-threat-survival-mankind/783321001/
- ↑ https://www.globalresearch.ca/junk-planet-is-earth-the-largest-garbage-dump-in-the-universe/5630052
- ↑ Escape from Evil p. 156
- ↑ https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-10/toxic-air-kills-100000-americans-year-costs-economy-billions-study-finds
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/feb/03/pfas-forever-chemicals-what-are-they
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/05/biosolids-toxic-chemicals-pollution