....and the Chinaman gets it!
Filed under: Save The Planet, Kill Others...
Green Lightbulbs poisoning workers:
WHEN British consumers are compelled to buy energy-efficient lightbulbs from 2012, they will save up to 5m tons of carbon dioxide a year from being pumped into the atmosphere. In China, however, a heavy environmental price is being paid for the production of “green” lightbulbs in cost-cutting factories. Large numbers of Chinese workers have been poisoned by mercury, which forms part of the compact fluorescent lightbulbs. A surge in foreign demand, set off by a European Union directive making these bulbs compulsory within three years, has also led to the reopening of mercury mines that have ruined the environment.
Making the bulbs requires workers to handle mercury in either solid or liquid form because a small amount of the metal is put into each bulb to start the chemical reaction that creates light.
I can't wait to learn the sordid details that go into the making of those earthwise cloth shopping bags...between the shopping bags, i-pods, the lightbulbs, fat people and Google Searches, this planet doesn't stand a chance...pray for the earth people...just don't do it online...
Sunday, May 17, 2009
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Mercury “poisoning” is actually good for you, something scientists have known for centuries but have generally kept it a secret. When taken in small doses over a long period, Mercury will gradually increase an individual’s IQ eventually to the point where great scientific achievements become possible.
For example, Pliny the Elder, perhaps one of the greatest scientific minds of antiquity, crossed the Bay of Naples in AD 79 to inhale the Mercury fumes being emitted by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Likewise, Isaac Newton ate, drank, and inhaled copious quantities of Mercury throughout his entire life. From ancient times down to the present, Mercury “poisoning” has been the secret ingredient of scientific genius.
Whole cultures, indeed, have adopted Mercury “poisoning” as a means to increase the population’s average IQ. The Japanese, to give just one example, consume large quantities of fish in their diet, knowing full well that fish contains high levels of Mercury. And it goes without saying that Japan is one of the most ingenious, if not one of the richest, countries in the world. (This secret way to a higher IQ and therefore greater prosperity may have also spread to China, which has gladly taken over the production of various Mercury-based products.)
American environmentalists, for reasons too numerous to catalog, do not want to see an increase in the average American’s IQ. This is why environmentalists are against fluorescent light bulbs and other products containing Mercury. When a homeowner accidentally breaks a fluorescent light bulb, he should make every effort to inhale the dust and fumes that result. But the environmentalists tell him to flee his house and abandon it to the hazardous materials team.
I thought American Environmentalists wanted to kill Chinese workers. You're just looking for any opprotunity drop Pliny The Elder's name...I do the same thing...it's ok.
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