Re: ot: Ontario's smog causes 9,500 deaths per year/Greed

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I think the key issue here is GREED. Greed trumphs everything else. Just like

in war, dropping bombs is OK, and 'collateral damage' is acceptable, even if it

includes the killing of innocents, destroying our environment, etc. Making a

profit trumphs protecting our environment.

We'll probably have to 'say' it many more times, until a swell of people are

persuaded to act and to stand up against the policies that allow the pollution

of our planet and our bodies.

Binstock wrote:

A person doesn't have to be a Marxist to realize that the biosphere is

increasingly polluted, that human bodies having a large number of

intra-body toxins, that oceans have dead zones related to agriculture

chemicals, some of which are associated with autism. If we are going to

stop allowing invasion of the placenta, fetus, infant, and toddler, we

ought be willing to identify pathologies that are providing us with

intra-body toxins. Would Ayn Rand accept that preventing others and

their corporations from polluting placental tissue, breast milk, etc, is

a meritorious goal? Or would Ms. Rand hold that if patented but toxic

molecules and their pollution are profitable, the resulting injuries are

morally justified? When excessive, " The Virtue of Selfishness " results

in profitable pathologies, including vaccination-induced neuropathies.

Perhaps the time has come for capitalistic wannabes to say, " injuring

the children " is not a sound way to proceed. Alternatively, what is an

" acceptable " number of smog-induced deaths? What is an acceptable rate

of vaccination-associated autisms? Pesticide-associated autisms? Is the

modern economy so sacred that its intoxinations and their adverse

effects not be eliminated as much as possible? I think towards Windham

et al and the various airborne pollutants associated with autism. How

much must a parent in the SF Bay area alter his or her detox-the-child

strategies in response to the continued breathing of pollutants?

Similarly regarding airborne mercury? The goal of healthy children

undamaged by pollutants (whether injected or otherwise) transcends ISMs,

and future generations are well-served to curtail intoxination, even

when the process is profitable for some among us.

Re: ot: Ontario's smog causes 9,500 deaths per year,

Posted by: " Branchflower " raygo2000@... raygo2000

Sat Jun 7, 2008 2:41 pm (PDT)

I have been getting helpful information from this group for over a year

but " western civilizations sacred economy " what is the purpose of

writing this in different posts? I am sure Marx would aprove but it is a

little annoying after reading it the first few times.