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KT2000

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1. interesting - but
Sun Nov 29, 2015, 04:37 PM
Nov 2015

there are so many other issues involved. First the corporate world has corrupted the meaning of environmentalism and turned it into an elitist pursuit to be fought against by "working people." Anyone who has worked issues knows that they can instantly call to action the workers who have been told they will lose their jobs.

Included in environmentalism is the whole area of environmental health. Research is conducted on the health effects of toxic chemicals but never makes it to mainstream medicine for the purpose of prevention and treatment. In fact doctors are afraid to even consider adverse health effects from profitable chemicals. The barrier needs to be broken that is preventing this information from being used to safeguard human health. The fight to do that would be against the medical community, insurance companies, bought politicians, corporations and their trade groups.
The caveat here is that there very few protections for human health so we must depend on rules established for environmental protection.

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interesting - but KT2000 Nov 2015 #1
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