The toxins in our environment are killing us
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Posted on May 22, 2007
Filed Under Consumer culture, Environmental disasters, Earth spirituality
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
In the midst of my writing frenzy (looming book deadline), I didn’t get to posting yesterday or today — until one of my favorite colleagues emailed an article just now from the Toronto Star. With reference to Rachel Carson, whom we quoted with great reverence over the weekend, this article is about how the toxins that are ubiquitous in our lives continue to be major causes of the cancers that are killing us.
Cancers like the one that killed Rachel Carson.
So I am just sending this link on to you. It is another part of the picture of how we destroy life, put life out of balance, by putting out into our world chemicals that should not be there at all - but which bring some big profits to those who make and sell them, and conveniences we think are more important than cancer.
Spend a moment to think about what you consume daily — what’s in the air you breathe, 
the water you drink, the pesticides on your food, the chemicals in the products you consume (that “new car” smell, for example, or the new carpet smell, or the cleansers you use, or chemical fertilizers — Round-Up VERY bad). This stuff is among the reasons that the cancer rates in the West are so high.
So I just recommend this article to you for your reflection. While research goes on for cancer cures and cancer drugs (you can make a lot of money in that business), we don’t look at the very environment that is making those tumors grow (not much profit in reducing the cancer rate by removing the toxins that cause the disease).
An economy of life would focus on removing these toxins from our lives. An economy that cared about life would not poison it.
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