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about our own bodies) and artificially dependent on the control hierarchy. Economically disadvantaged people don't die from not having access to medical "care": they die from the life constraints and liabilities directly resulting from poverty. How many MDs have stated this obvious truth on the radio? as was Freon. As a result, it corrodes refrigerator cycle components at a much faster rate. Where home refrigerators and freezers used to last forever, they now burn out in eight years or so. This has caused catastrophic increases in major appliance contributions o landfill sites across North America, spurred on by the green propaganda for obscenely efficient electrical consumptions of the new appliances under closed-door zero-use) conditions. In addition, we have been frenzied into avoiding the sun, the UV index keeps our fear of cancer and our dependence on the medical establishment alive, and a new sunblock industry a la vampire protection league as been spawned. Of course, star university chemists are looking for that perfect sunblock molecule that can be patented by Big Pharma. | predict that as soon as it is, there'll be a surge in media interviews with skin ann ane Ae nets revere tee Vewuerwttes JV tee eee eee eet eee Environmental Science Lies consumptions of the new appliances under closed-door Exploitation via resource extraction, land use (zero-use) conditions. expropriation and wage slavery creation and maintenance In addition, we have been frenzied into avoiding the is devastating to indigenous populations and to the — sun, the UV index keeps our fear of cancer and our environment on continental scales. It is therefore vital | dependence on the medical establishment alive, and a for the exploiters to cover up their crimes under a veil of | new sunblock industry a la vampire protection league expert analysis and policy development diversion. A has been spawned. Of course, star university chemists valued class of service intellectuals here is composed of are looking for that perfect sunblock molecule that can environmental scientists and consultants. be patented by Big Pharma. | predict that as soon as it Environmental scientists naively and knowingly work is, there'll be a surge in media interviews with skin hand in hand with corporate and finance shysters, cancer experts... mainstream media, politicians, and state and international « Acid Rain on Boreal Forest bureaucrats to mask real In the 1970s, it was acid rain. problems and to create profit It is therefore Vital for the Thousands of scientists from opportunities for select power . . around the world (northern elites. Here are some notable exploiters to cover up their hemisphere) studied this "most examples of specific cases. crimes under a veil of pressing environmental problem . . on the planet". The boreal + Freon and Ozone expert analysis and policy forest is the largest ecosystem Do you know of anyone who fs 6 on Earth, and its millions of has been killed by the hole in development diversion. lakes were reportedly being the ozone layer? The 1987 killed by acid from the sky. Montreal Protocol banning Coal-burning plants spewed chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) is out sulphides into the considered a textbook case where science and atmosphere, causing the rain to be acidic. The acid rain responsible governance led to a landmark treaty for the | was postulated to acidify the soils and lakes in the benefit of the Earth and all its inhabitants. How often boreal forest, but the acidification was virtually does that happen? impossible to detect. Pristine lakes in the heart of At about the time that the DuPont patent on national parks had to be studied for decades in attempts Freon™—the most widely used CFC refrigerant in the o detect a statistically significant acidification. world—was expiring, the mainstream media picked up Meanwhile, the lakes and their watersheds were being on otherwise arcane scientific observations and destroyed by the cottage-building industry, agriculture, ypotheses about ozone concentration in the upper orestry, mining, overfishing and tourism. None of the atmosphere near the poles. There resulted an ocal and regional destruction was studied or exposed. international mobilisation to criminalise CFCs, and nstead, scientists turned their gaze to distant coal- DuPont developed and patented a replacemen burning plants and atmospheric distribution, and refrigerant that was promptly certified for use. postulated chemical reactions occurring in rain A Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded in 1995 fora droplets. One study found that the spawning in aboratory demonstration that CFCs could deplete aquarium of one fish species was extremely sensitive to ozone in simulated atmospheric conditions. In 2007, i acidity. Long treatises about cation charge balance and was shown that the latter work may have been seriously ransport were written, and attention was diverted away lawed by its overestimating the depletion rate by an rom the destruction on the ground towards a sanitised order of magnitude, thereby invalidating the proposed problem of atmospheric chemistry that was the result o! mechanism for CFC-driven ozone depletion.* Not to _ industrialisation and progress rather than being caused mention that any laboratory experiment is somewha by identifiable exploiters. different from the actual upper atmosphere... Is the As a physicist and an Earth scientist turned Nobel tainted by media and special-interest lobbying? environmental scientist, | personally read virtually every It gets better. It turns out that the DuPon single scientific paper written about acid rain and could replacement refrigerant, not surprisingly, is not as iner' not find an example of a demonstrated negative impact cancer experts... exploiters to cover up their crimes under a veil of expert analysis and policy development diversion. NEXUS ° 41 It is therefore vital for the OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2010 www.nexusmagazine.com