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UNBELIEVABLE
When I first read this information on Amap a few years ago, I wondered if it was a hoax.
Perhaps something from the fanciful Weekly World News (Researcher Calculates A Snowball's Chance in Hell to be .000000000134% !) [actual headline] or even the spoof paper The Onion.
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It was just too bizarre, too shocking to be true. I have since learned that it is quite real. Also strange: why is nobody talking about this?
There are many who hold that this information is all rumor and legend. I feel I have found good enough sources, plus it suits my logic.
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When I first read this information on Amap a few years ago, I wondered if it was a hoax.
Perhaps something from the fanciful Weekly World News (Researcher Calculates A Snowball's Chance in Hell to be .000000000134% !) [actual headline] or even the spoof paper The Onion.
.
It was just too bizarre, too shocking to be true. I have since learned that it is quite real. Also strange: why is nobody talking about this?
There are many who hold that this information is all rumor and legend. I feel I have found good enough sources, plus it suits my logic.
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The Guardian, September 12, 2007
[Pictures my selection]
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Man-made chemicals blamed as many more girls
than boys are born in Arctic
· High levels can change sex of child during pregnancy
· Survey of Greenland and east Russia PUTS RATIO AT 2:1
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by Paul Brown in Nuuk, Greenland
Joel Sartore/Getty/National Geographic
An Inuit child in a traditional parka
YES, CANADA TOO
The scientists, who say the findings could explain the recent excess of girl babies across much of the northern hemisphere, are widening their investigation across the most acutely affected communities in Russia, Greenland and Canada to try to discover the size of the imbalance in Inuit communities of the far north.
In the communities of Greenland and eastern Russia monitored so far, the ratio was found to be two girls to one boy. In one village in Greenland only girls have been born.
FLIP IN THE WOMB
The scientists measured the man-made chemicals in women's blood that mimic human hormones and concluded that they were CAPABLE OF TRIGGERING CHANGES IN THE SEX OF UNBORN CHILDREN IN THE FIRST THREE WEEKS OF GESTATION.
. funny but not funny
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Lars-Otto Reierson, executive secretary for Amap, said: "We knew that the levels of man-made chemicals were accumulating in the food chain, and that seals, whales and particularly polar bears were getting a dose a million times higher than that existing in plankton, and that this could be toxic to humans who ate these higher animals. What was shocking was that they were also ABLE TO CHANGE THE SEX OF CHILDREN BEFORE BIRTH."
FLIP IN THE WOMB
The scientists measured the man-made chemicals in women's blood that mimic human hormones and concluded that they were CAPABLE OF TRIGGERING CHANGES IN THE SEX OF UNBORN CHILDREN IN THE FIRST THREE WEEKS OF GESTATION.
. funny but not funny
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Lars-Otto Reierson, executive secretary for Amap, said: "We knew that the levels of man-made chemicals were accumulating in the food chain, and that seals, whales and particularly polar bears were getting a dose a million times higher than that existing in plankton, and that this could be toxic to humans who ate these higher animals. What was shocking was that they were also ABLE TO CHANGE THE SEX OF CHILDREN BEFORE BIRTH."
DON'T THINK IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH US
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The sex balance of the human race - historically a slight excess of boys over girls - has recently begun to change. A paper published in the US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences earlier this year said that IN JAPAN AND THE US there were 250,000 boys fewer than would have been expected had the sex ratio existing in 1970 remained unchanged. The paper was unable to pin down a cause for the new excess of girls over boys.
HORMONE MIMICKERS
Scientists believe a number of man-made chemicals used in electrical equipment from generators, televisions and computers that mimic human hormones are implicated. They are carried by winds and rivers to the Arctic where they accumulate in the food chain and in the bloodstreams of the largely meat- and fish-eating Inuit communities.
wikipedia
Blue represents more women, red more men than the world average of 1.01 males/female.
The first results of the survey were disclosed at a symposium of religious, scientific and environmental leaders in Greenland's capital, Nuuk, yesterday, organised by the Patriarch of the Orthodox Church, Bartholomew I, which is looking at the effects of environmental pollution on the Arctic . . . .
. . . . Aqqaluk Lynge, the former chairman of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference who hails from Greenland, said: "This is a disaster, especially for some 1,500 people who make up the Inuit nations in the far north east of Russia.
Carlsonblog.blogspot)
ONLY GIRL BABIES
"Here in the north of Greenland, in the villages near the Thule American base, ONLY GIRL BABIES ARE BEING BORN to Inuit families . . .
. . . . "This has become a CRITICAL QUESTION OF PEOPLE'S SURVIVAL but FEW GOVERNMENTS WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE PROBLEM OF HORMONE MIMICKERS BECAUSE IT MEANS THINKING ABOUT THE CHEMICALS YOU USE.
My commentary
LOOK AROUND YOU
Yes, exactly- why IS no one talking about this. Are you willing to give up your electronics, your plastic, each person their own car, food shipped in from France? For $20 a dress Marie Antoinette would envy? Modern life has become so entangled in things that poison us.
It's ultimately a political problem, isn't it?
Can you imagine going back to a world like the 1950s- or even earlier, maybe the industrial revolution! Everything cheaply reproducible becomes prohibitively expensive- for ex. give up your computer.
COLLAPSE OF MODERN WORLD
A world transformed, the fall of all multinational corporations, economic chaos.
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"Drowning in Plastic"
geoftheref's flickr link
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Just about everything, if you think about it; there's some plastic part somewhere.
Did you think the modern world is built on technology? As I see it, in a certain way the modern world rests most upon the invention of plastic.
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| "Just one word of advice..." |
I did have that thought independently- in spite of the scene in Mike Nichols’ 1967 “The Graduate." Dustin Hoffman, playing a graduate who returns home and has no idea what to do with his life next, is given “just one word” of advice: “plastics.” I think he should have listened.
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