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Ummmmm what do these fillings do us that have them ?
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Ummmmm what do these fillings do us that have them ?
I have a book on koalas and they definitely do just keep breeding to starvation, Kangaroo Islands is one place, another was on an island on the Murray River. They were placed on a large island within the river to isolate them from dogs and farmers, they just kept on breeding, killed all the trees and then themselves.
On the other hand, kangaroos etc don't breed up unless there is sufficient food to sustain them and we have noticed that in a drought our resident magpies and kookaburras seem to have less babies.
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I am amazed how wasteful the young green generation is, on one hand they talk of saving the planet and on the other they throw things away and buy another simply because there is a new version.
Dress shops catering to the young set release up to 20 new lines a week because some of the younger working females will only wear something once, then they throw it away. They are buying 5-10 new tops a week, as most of these are synthetics they would be coming from oil based products I believe.
Mercury is a nasty for sure, that is why I think it is weird that we now have to use light bulbs with mercury in them. I shudder to think how much mercury will be leaching into the water ways in about 10 years time and then forever as we chuck the broken/dead ones into land fill. Not green at all IMO
On the other hand, kangaroos etc don't breed up unless there is sufficient food to sustain them and we have noticed that in a drought our resident magpies and kookaburras seem to have less babies.
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I am amazed how wasteful the young green generation is, on one hand they talk of saving the planet and on the other they throw things away and buy another simply because there is a new version.Dress shops catering to the young set release up to 20 new lines a week because some of the younger working females will only wear something once, then they throw it away. They are buying 5-10 new tops a week, as most of these are synthetics they would be coming from oil based products I believe.
Mercury is a nasty for sure, that is why I think it is weird that we now have to use light bulbs with mercury in them. I shudder to think how much mercury will be leaching into the water ways in about 10 years time and then forever as we chuck the broken/dead ones into land fill. Not green at all IMO
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Good question. There are dentists who believe mercury fillings are dangerous to our health because they can/might migrate into the bloodstream.
The mercury in compact fluorescent light globes is a concern if it is broken and leaks into the atmosphere. On the other hand coal fired power stations are a large source of mercury. Coal contains many elements that are burnt and up as pollution.
Because mercury simply accumulates in the body and has extremely toxic effects on people we do have to prevent it's release into the environment. One of the dangers is the way it is concentrated in the food chain and as we eat at the top of the chain - we end up with the problems.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomagnification
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/nov2008/2008-11-21-092.html
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Oh bas, when will you learn. The insult was not gratuitous at all, it was pointed.
But you do not see the irony I was highlighting do you? Yes mercury pollution is a concern; a real issue. But the Carbon-Catastrophists would rather pollute us with mercury via 'green' light bulbs rather than admit that incandescent lightbulbs have a hugely smaller overall impact. (forgive the oxymoron there)
But then will breech cultural sensitivity by ripping dead people's teeth out.
FFS!!
The environments asymmetry and downright hypocrisy is astonishing!
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Some public health doctors must have too little to do.
One of them was suggesting on ABC Local Radio last evening that we must introduce signs at petrol stations stating that "Traffic Pollution is Toxic".
His contention was that people didn't on the whole consider this or consider walking or riding a bike.
Duh! Traffic pollution toxic? I'd never have believed it. I'd imagined people just drive round aimlessly in their cars, enjoying paying excessive prices for the petrol, completely unaware that any pollution is occurring.
Surely there are genuinely necessary areas of study for these undoubtedly well paid academics?
On Flannery and the mercury: apparently he suggested that funeral directors could easily deal with the problem. It was a "$2 Solution", this evidently deriving from the suggested cost of a pair of pliers with which the teeth of the deceased could be yanked out before cremation.
How much do we pay this character?
One of them was suggesting on ABC Local Radio last evening that we must introduce signs at petrol stations stating that "Traffic Pollution is Toxic".
His contention was that people didn't on the whole consider this or consider walking or riding a bike.
Duh! Traffic pollution toxic? I'd never have believed it. I'd imagined people just drive round aimlessly in their cars, enjoying paying excessive prices for the petrol, completely unaware that any pollution is occurring.
Surely there are genuinely necessary areas of study for these undoubtedly well paid academics?
On Flannery and the mercury: apparently he suggested that funeral directors could easily deal with the problem. It was a "$2 Solution", this evidently deriving from the suggested cost of a pair of pliers with which the teeth of the deceased could be yanked out before cremation.
How much do we pay this character?
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