Global Warming Real? Read this.

You bet your bottom dollar it is! I love it when the truth is revealed.... See Newsweek article on the GlobalWarming Deniers. Uncover the consipiracy to make you think GlobalWarming is a hoax.

Global-Warming Deniers- A Well Funded Machine article (Aug. 13th):
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20122975/site/newsweek/

Interactive Global Warming Timeline:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20113753/site/newsweek/

The Global Warming Debate
http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/G/great_global_warming_swindle/index.html

If you can save a whale then you can save the air.

I think Amanda Little with the NY Times on Sept.2, 2007 wrote it best when she wrote, "Consider this curiosity of United States environmental policy: Countless federal laws have been written to preserve far-flung wilderness that Americans rarely visit (the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, for instance) and endangered species that we scarcely see (from longhorn fairy shrimp to piping plovers). Yet no legislation has been tailored to protect a landscape that is perhaps the most vulnerable: the low-income communities that shelter most of America’s polluting facilities."

She writes this because, minority and low-income populations should not be subjected to more environmental burdens than others. Yet disproportionately high pollution levels continue to plague poor communities, and race often correlates with which populations are hit the hardest: African-Americans, for instance, are 79 percent more likely than whites to live in areas where air-pollution levels pose health risks, according to a 2005 Associated Press analysis of E.P.A. data. Lead-poisoning rates among Hispanic and black children are roughly double those among white children.

Some may say that taxpayers will inevitably question why they should foot the bill for a sewage-treatment plant on the Upper East Side when it could be placed in a far less expensive neighborhood. Is it just economics?

A new bill proposed by HIllary Clinton, will require the Environmental Protection Agency to monitor and mitigate the health impacts of power plants, waste-transfer stations, truck fleets, refineries and other industrial infrastructure, which tend to be overwhelmingly concentrated in America’s poorest neighborhoods. See Clinton's profile here: http://votesmart.org/bio.php?can_id=WNY99268

Getting the health you pay for

I recently read an article in the Record, 11/6/07 entitled, "N.J. doctors among lowest paid under Medicaid". The reason this concerns me is that while health insurance and out of pocket fees are skyrocketing, health insurance companies are reporting double digit (%) earnings to investors. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/05/31/370709/index.htm

Since the doctors are getting tired of less money for offering the same service, they are treating patients with Medicaid worse that patients with Medicare or insurance. Many doctors quit insurance companies that don't pay out enough. They rush you out the office and get irritated if you ask a lot of question about your health. Of course, not all are this way. Some don't mind getting paid a little less. Are doctors paid too much? Is there something to be said about how in Cuba, doctors and teachers are paid the same? Perhaps, something is terribly amiss when doctors are not happy with their cut yet families and their employers are paying 10-20K per year for medical insurance. Help, something has gone terribly wrong when equal healthcare is not affordable.


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China is choking on its own success.

I am much a critic that so much is made overseas instead of here in the U.S. To further add to my disdain on foreign exports,as of late, there has been increased news of counterfeit products, including conterfeit medicine. Plus, with Chinese manufacturers still making toys out of lead... and not labeling that their possibly inferior products are made in China I see that China's success is causing even more destruction to our environment. I see that by them being a major industrial power they have set off an imbalance of much more than trade. In fact, a NY Times article points out that they are now choking on their own success.



"Much of the particulate pollution over Los Angeles originates in China! Sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides spewed by China’s coal-fired power plants fall as acid rain on Seoul, South Korea, and Tokyo. Pollution has made cancer China’s leading cause of death, the Ministry of Health says. Chinese cities often seem wrapped in a toxic gray shroud. Only 1 percent of the country’s 560 million city dwellers breathe air considered safe by the European Union. "

Even as all this occurs, foreign investment continues to rise as multinational corporations build more factories in China.

But really they are just doing what other developed countries did. American and Britain, polluted their way to the top then the upper class demanded safe water and blue skies when it got to be too much.

So how bad is China? The NYT reports, "The level of such particulates is measured in micrograms per cubic meter of air. The European Union stipulates that any reading above 40 micrograms is unsafe. The United States allows 50. In 2006, Beijing’s average PM 10 level was 141, according to the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics. Only Cairo, among world capitals, had worse air quality as measured by particulates, according to the World Bank." For more more go here: As China Roars, Pollution Reaches Deadly Extremes, NYT Times Aug. 26th By JOSEPH KAHN and JIM YARDLEY

BIG Water

I have not been one for drinking tap water yet at the same time it feels like I am being scamed to buy "BIG Water". Is deregulated water in the forseable future?What's next, pay for air? Oh, year... Oxygen Bars.

Ever seen that Jackie Chan movie about The Tuxedo, where companies are fighting for the sale of water? I want free water. Its just some days my water tastes more like my pipes or more like chlorine than water. And then there's my children and providing them with the best or the fact that I never receive notice on the day the fire department flushes the hydrants. Why do I have to listen to 1010 Wins in the morning to know if my water has been contaminated?

On the other hand, will I die from the tap water? The question reminds me of an old friend who said his sister caught Leukemia from the tap water and died as a result. That story still brings chills down my spine. By the time you find something wrong with water will it be too late? I can almost scare my self into giving up my city's well water. If the water is bad, would it be easier to sue Coca-Cola or an municipality?

Look all I am saying is that we still have some good drinking water left. It has not all turned to wormwood. We can't continue to pollute, dump garbage on the ground-- not caring where it ends up. Here is a link to an article on the Hackensack River. You'll see marvelous pictures of where some of my state's water comes from (tap water) and then where it ends up (I wouldn't gargle with this water). See how the river water by Ridgefield Park, NJ was considered for many years a dead zone for fish and how thousands of oysters are going to be added to the river water by the Meadowlands to clean the water. See the Record article: Paddling on the Hackensack can turn magical http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk2MDYmZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTcxODcwNTUmeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXky

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