Hey everyone,
I hope you will share this important episode with all your friends and family! Because one part of my health condition has been mercury toxicity, I am passionate about educating others of the dangers of mercury. We also now hear about the connections between mercury in vaccines to autism and other health conditions.
I believe that our connection to the environment and how we treat it is how we treat ourselves. I don't think it is any coincidence that we are seeing a rise in many illnesses that are appearing today. As a country, we cannot continue to allow the biggest polluters to be rewarded and protected all because they gave money to a politician. But that is exactly what is happening.
I learned alot from listening to Robert F Kennedy Jr speak. I became more informed.
I do not think things are hopeless. We have the power to vote for politicians that will protect our environment and our health. We have the power not to invest money in companies that are polluting the world and making it more toxic.
This episode is filled with some very cool facts to know, and tons of inspiration!
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One out of every 4 children in NYC and in most urban areas, has asthma. The primary cause of asthma attacks is ozone particulates, and the principle source of those particulates in our atmosphere are 400 coal burning power plants that are burning coal illegally. It has been illegal for 18 years. They were supposed to have cleaned up. Many of them did. The Clinton administration was prosecuting the worst 52 of those plants criminally and civilly for violating the law.
But this is an industry that donated 156 million dollars to President Bush's party since the 2000 cycle. And one of the first things that Bush did when he came into office was to order the Justice Department and EPA to drop all those lawsuits. The top enforcers at the EPA resigned their jobs in protest. These weren't democrats. These were people who had worked through the Reagan administration and the previous Bush administration.
The top Justice attorney in charge of those cases said, "This has never happened before in American History where a presidential candidate accepts money from criminals under investigation and then awards those cases dropped after he achieves office."
Immediately after dropping those lawsuits, the White House went and abolished the New Source Rule which was the heart and soul, the central provision of the Clean Air Act. That rule is the rule that required those plants to clean up 17 years ago and it is the fundamental compromise that allowed the passage of the Clean Air Act.
If you go to EPA's website today, you will see that that decision alone, that single decision, kills 18,000 Americans every single year. Six times the number of people that were killed by the World Trade Center attack. This should be on the front page of every newspaper in this country every single day and yet you're not reading about it in the American press.
A couple of months ago EPA announced that in 19 states it is now unsafe to eat any freshwater fish in the state because of mercury contamination. We know where the mercury is coming from, those same coal burning power plants. In 48 states at least some of the fish are unsafe to eat. In fact, the only two states where all of the fish are still safe to eat are Alaska and Wyoming where republican controlled legislatures have refused to appropriate the money to test the fish. In all of the other states at least some, most or all of the fish are unsafe to eat.
-Robert F Kennedy, Jr.
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thanks for a great post Jo!!!! RFK Jr. is voice we need, and more people in the government need to hear also.
(I also heard on Teri Gross' “Fresh Air” a marine biologist talking about how farm-raised fish are more susceptible to disease and parasites, and in general how the world has become overfished)
it all comes down to GREED. and this administration is only part of the problem; the bottom line is factory farms and fisheries make more profit–no matter if the environment or people's health is at risk.
thanks again.
E.