Sustainability and Politics: BBC News - UN: Rising mercury emissions increase risk to humans

Thursday, January 10, 2013

BBC News - UN: Rising mercury emissions increase risk to humans

BBC News - UN: Rising mercury emissions increase risk to humans

These things are so cumulative. As the population grows, we need to enforce the strongly restricted release of toxins and damaging pollution like mercury most stringently.
I've blogged about this extensively.
My mother's late ex-husband Gene Feldman was a respected pediatrician.
At my urging, he sent a letter to the EPA urging them not to let Bush Jr. allow more mercury pollution from powerhouse smokestacks.
It was elegant and profound how he simply stated the great pains doctors had to take to treat and help reform just one child with mercury poisoning, and here George Bush was fixing to unleash many x thousands more cases of this misfortune just to allow a business to pollute more.
I think I have that letter; if I find it I'll post it.
You can also search for mercury on this blog.
I've posted at least one in-depth post on the neuro- and physiological effects of mercury poisoning.

Ratify and enforce this globally http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7902092.stm

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I've been thinking some about the Winter Solstice, the Mayan end of the 30,000-year-cycle on 12/21/12.

What if in fact the world did end? Even though this probably will not happen, to live consciously it is honest for us to take a bit of an inventory.

Am I happy with how I've lived my life? (Yesterday, I thought mostly yes, with some areas for improvement, as below.) Are there changes I would make?
Would I have tried to forgive those that were hostile or disappointing to me?
Would I spend more time with those I loved the most, telling them that, feeling that more?
Would I be happier, grateful for what I have, what I've experienced, the joy, the beauty in this world?

Maybe the answer is yes to all of the above.
So this time can serve as a point of rebirth for all of us. If we think about it.

Because somewhere along the line I realized I think maybe mankind deserves it. !
The way we are killing each other, killing the planet.
How selfish we are, and snotty to those around us. Petty, competitive. Why is this? Do we have to behave this way? (I say no, it greatly detracts and misdirects energy from the full-time celebration in which we could engage, the great multi-cultural, multi-rhythmic dance we can sustain here.)

Maybe God or the Great Universe is fed up, and will pull the rug out from under us.
Don't think I can say we could blame Him/Her/It.

But it probably won't happen. (Probably not! This time.)

Still we are finite on this ride.

It is a time to think, am I happy with how I've lived my life?
Hopefully most of us can say yes.

For the part of us that have a little worry, a little sadness....
This is the time to be present.
This is the time to be the person you want to be, that can die at peace, that can hope to every day be able to look yourself and the Universe in the eye and say, how beautiful, smiling, and thank you. Let's do that.