{"id":336,"date":"2011-11-23T11:24:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=336"},"modified":"2011-11-23T11:24:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T15:24:00","slug":"to-save-pennies-on-food-and-fuel-we-let-industries-poison-our-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=336","title":{"rendered":"To save pennies on food and fuel, we let industries poison our children"},"content":{"rendered":"

To save pennies on food and fuel, we let industries poison our children<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In 2005, researchers at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York released their finding that mercury air pollution was costing the U.S. economy $8.7 billion a year in lost earnings due to diminished IQs of children exposed to mercury in the womb.<\/p>\n

Mercury is well known and well understood as poison — to both children and adults — but it also is a developmental toxin. It affects developing fetuses and children in a way that it doesn’t affect adults, and its effects are permanent and irreversible.<\/p>\n

Lowered IQ. Lessened ability to learn. Reduced capacity for life. Why?<\/p>\n

Because we like cheap electricity, and in today’s market coal-fired electricity is the cheapest. When coal is burned, mercury is released into the air. Then it makes its way into the nostrils, lungs and brains of our children.<\/p>\n

The solution is simple: Require all coal-fired power plants to install equipment that captures mercury before it escapes into the air.<\/p>\n

Try that idea out on the power and coal companies. You won’t have long to wait for the denials, evasions, knee-jerk rejections of data, lobbying and the charming PR that is churned out by the industry resistance machine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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