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Originally Posted by metaphor-  “Each generation is getting weaker as pollution builds up and wears down the immune system,” claims allergy specialist Dr. Jean Monro of Britain’s Breakspear Hospital for Allergy and Environmental Medicine. Environmental pollution, failure to breast-feed babies, the addition of chemicals to food and water supplies, and an unwise use of medicines and drugs are cited as contributing factors. Diseases ranging from asthma to cancer, and even child behavioral problems, result. As reported in The Times of London, an estimated 17 million people, some 30 percent of Britain’s population, could be suffering from environmentally induced ailments, many without realizing it. |
The wording in the quote is rather confusing, seems like he is saying that the badness is spreading as-in genetically. I agree not breast-feeding without other reasons is probably stupid. It is one way resistance to disease is spread.
I also wonder, how many people that have all those modern diseases would just have died in the past and not become regular medical visitors.
I agree that most unethical and unthoughtful-of-risk research is probably done by military and corporations. It is probably just an extension of other problems society faces with those organizations, IMO.
Quite a bit of mis-use is by the average Joe, though. The deaths in automobile accidents are a pretty good example. It is not because of cars, but the people that drive them. For instance seat-belts were long known to increase safety by a lot, but it still had to be mandated for people to use them.
Actually, i think cars are used way too often in any case. If people lived reasonably close to their work and cities were designed ok, Bicycles would be a far more efficient method of dayly transportation. No emissions, gets you exercise, smaller infrastructure needed -including parking. Pretty good for a technology that was generally affordable 50 years before cars.(guess)