Visualisez l'emplacement des munitions chimiques et conventionnelles enfouies dans les #fonds_marins français
Franceinfo publie un recensement inédit des décharges d'explosifs immergées, en collaboration avec les équipes de l'émission " #Vert de rage " diffusée sur France 5.
#ecologie #agrobuisness #polution
Utilisé pour l’agriculture française, le #phosphate provoque une catastrophe sanitaire en #Tunisie
From Mel Hopper Koppelman:
"Diseases caused by pollution were responsible for an estimated 9 million premature deaths in 2015—16% of all deaths worldwide— three times more deaths than from AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined and 15 times more than from all wars and other forms of violence. In the most severely affected countries, pollution-related disease is responsible for more than one death in four . . .
Nearly 92% of pollution-related deaths occur in low-income and middle-income countries and, in countries at every income level, disease caused by pollution is most prevalent among minorities and the marginalised. Children are at high risk of pollution related disease and even extremely low-dose exposures to pollutants during windows of vulnerability in utero and in early infancy can result in disease, disability, and death in childhood and across their lifespan." (astericks are mine)
One challenge is the economic flywheel working against this just in healthcare alone. Pollution is the largest creator of chronic disease. Reducing chronic disease by 10% would cut US healthcare costs by $280 billion a year - which is more than the annual budgets of the NIH, the EPA, the FDA and the USDA combined. Out of all industries, the pharmaceutical industry spends by far the most money per year lobbying the government to create policy. Until we can acknowledge (unemotionally, unpolitically) these gigantic forces that use colossal resources to maintain the status quo, attempts at change are unlikely to be successful, as current trends in both pollution and chronic disease indicate."
Landrigan, P.J., Fuller, R., Acosta, N.J., Adeyi, O., Arnold, R., Baldé, A.B., Bertollini, R., Bose-O'Reilly, S., Boufford, J.I., Breysse, P.N. and Chiles, T., 2018. The Lancet Commission on pollution and health. The lancet, 391(10119), pp.462-512.
