In the North Sea off Europe, one of the largest dead zones spans 27,000 square miles, or, the size of North Carolina. Very few creatures can exist in those toxic waters. A quick jaunt to the Ganges of India and the Yangtze of China would uncover 24/7 sewage conveyor belts emptying into the ocean. I traveled up the Yangtze to see it myself. Time Magazine wrote a piece showing 95 percent of China's rivers suffer such horrific contamination that the waters cannot be utilized for human contact, agricultural or industrial use.
OUR OCEANS AS THE ULTIMATE HUMAN TOILET
When you add the 82,000 known chemicals created by humanity in the past 100 years, and all of them end up in our oceans, is it any wonder that the USDA tells pregnant women to limit their fish intake to less than one serving a month? How about none at all?!
Nonetheless, garden stores sell "Roundup" to kill your driveway weeds instead of pulling them out. We spray "Raid" on termites and mosquitoes to kill them, but eventually, we kill our loved ones with cancer. Over 200 million Americans breathe toxic air with every breath in our cities. We eat toxic foods sprayed with chemicals from airplanes. What the heck are we doing to ourselves just for the sake of adding millions upon millions more humans to the USA and the planet?
The imminent author, Sandra Steingrabber, wrote, Living Downstream that followed the cancer trail back to industrial pollution not only in Illinois, but all over the country. Dow Chemical won't admit it, but it dumped toxins into the Great Lakes for decades to poison the fish and create birth defects in migrating birds. Kimberly Clark, the paper people, dumped dioxins into the waters of Lake Michigan for decades.
Can you imagine what another 100 million people added to the USA and another three billion added to the planet will add to our chemicalized world?
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