A contaminated world

Ask chemical companies and they’ll deny. Everything. Their products are totally healthy. Like tobacco companies had been declaring for decades. Profits come first, health maybe…fourth? Something like that. Whereas there is a big difference: if you were smoking you were hurting yourself, while chemicals contamination is hurting all of us regardless, with no distinction. I’m even more worried now, though. Wherefore chemical industries are so much more powerful, second only to oil industries.

These cancer-spreading companies declare there are no proofs of links between their products and prostate cancer, breast cancer, obesity, infertility, genital deformities, diabetes or any other form of cancer. Exactly like tobacco companies were denying. Thankfully there are tons of proofs instead: look for yourself! So why is nobody intervening? Same old, same old. Outrageously powerful lobbies, like in every other area.

Yes, my posts were a little bit shorter before: but chemical industries are NO short in briberies. In the last 70 years 80,000 new chemicals have been synthesized and every year 4 billion of these carcinogens are released into the environment: we have NO defence, nowhere to escape. There are at least 46 of them into our bodies. We’re born pre-polluted, from the very beginning of our lives, directly from our mothers. Can you believe it?!

Millennials should be called the new chemically “connected” species, but not in the positive way you might first think. Born already connected to internet (a mother can monitor a newly born from her home) and already heavily polluted. Oh my, oh my!

Who exactly is warning us of above dangers? The American College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, the Endocrine Society, Britain’s Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, the International Association of Doctors, the World Health Organization: I suppose they’re more than enough to be worried about.

The basic risk / problem is based on the fact that all chemical products should be tested for safety before being commercialized. Well, they are NOT. They’re supposed to be safe. Until proven otherwise.      

And even when proven otherwise, they are replaced with a similar product equally harmful. Business comes first. Absurdly, the situation is equally outrageous all over the world. Europe is just now moving toward testing chemicals before they go on the market: lobbies are extremely powerful. In America there is an identical situation.

Our only defence is to be informed. E. g. we can eat organic (it doesn’t have to be necessarily more expensive). For more help and practical examples (like not touching register receipts), have a look at: ewg.org.

I ended my post “Renewables” quoting: “There’s just one little detail: can our planet wait for lobby groups’ interests? Can your children wait?! When in 15 years time they’ll ask you why half of the population has some form of cancer due to pollution, what will you answer them? I suggest you to prepare your justification. Right now.”

Substitute the word pollution with chemicals. Or don’t.

It doesn’t actually change anyting.

….Always humble,

Angiolino