Posted in health, politics, tagged air, alarms, Americans, awareness, Basel Convention Treaty, Bed bath and beyond, best interest, cancer, cancer foundations, catastrophe, CDC, cesium iodine, Chernobyl, China, china syndrome, chronic, cleanup, clearance levels, colbalt-60, conflicts of interest, consumer, consumer safety, contamination, cure, DDREF, dirty bomb, DOE, donations, dose, dosimeters, Dual Ridge, elements, energy, energy policy, experiment, export, exposure, FDA, food, Fukushima, goods, holder, homegoods, hot metal, hot spoons, human health, illegal, import, India, informed, ionizing, isotopes, Japan, Japanese, lab rats, LNT, low-level waste, manufactured, media, medical waste, meltdown, metal, nuclear, nuclear lobby, outlaw, Petkau effect, plutonium, politicians, power, precautionary principle, products, public debate, public health, radioactive, recycle, regulation, risk, safe, scrap, silent, status, Tatara Group, terrorism, Third World, threat, tissue box, toxic, treatment, unacceptable, unsafe, uranium, US, water, x-ray on January 13, 2012 |
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In the scare-of-the-week news story we learn that Bed, Bath & Beyond may have distributed radioactive tissue holders across the country.
It allegedly started when just four metal tissue box covers buried in a transport truck set off radiation detectors installed after 911 to protect us from a terrorist threat. Who knew truck-stop Geiger counters would also serve to protect us, apparently, from made-in India? But are mass exporters like China and India really to blame for these all-too-common consumer product scares?
Perhaps not.
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President H.W. Bush, borrowing a phrase from an earlier era, popularized the term “New World Order” (NWO) in the early 1990s. But while the New World Order has legitimate roots, it has come to be associated with little more than paranoid conspiracy.
Given what we’ve witnessed in recent times, however, is it wise to continue to dismiss the notion out-of-hand?
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Trees: 181,000 of them to be exact. That’s the number of leafy green lives we will save if we pay our bills online, writes Vicki Kriz, author of GreenSmart: Save trees, pay bills online in a July 5, 2009 USA WEEKEND Magazine column. A wise idea, right? “To find out the impact your household could make, use the ‘Green Calculator’ at payitgreen.org,” the article concludes.
That’s all well and good, but who’s asking the even bigger question: How many trees are we trading for coal-burning smokestacks vis-à-vis the increasing load our proliferating gadgets place on the electric grid?
Consider the carbon footprint of the Internet itself. The electrical requirements are astounding, yet as long as the public perceives all things Internet and electronic as a “free Green lunch”, no end to this grand, green e-lusion lies in sight.
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