Recently added articles from Rachel's Democracy & Health News:
CUMULATIVE IMPACTS: DEATH KNELL FOR COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS
Feb 19, 2009; ... In the beginning, planet Earth seemed limitless. Yes, humans could see that they were making big changes locally - hunting the wooly mammoth to extinction, for example, or permanently altering forest ecosystems with fire. However, for eons there was never a hint that humans could become a force ...
THE DAWNING AGE OF BIOCHEMISTRY REVEALS SEVERITY OF CHEMICAL RISKS
Feb 19, 2009; ... Science advances largely when its analytical techniques do; in biology this has lead to biochemistry. Mankind has just begun to figure out the intricate sequences of chemical reactions that constitute life. Immediately this investigation shows that life's complexity, and its often tiny chemical ...
CANCER WAS A RARE DISEASE BEFORE THE INDUSTRIAL ERA
Feb 19, 2009; ... One little-known gem of evidence that cancer incidence has exploded in the industrial era comes from the time of the founding of the USA's National Cancer Institute. I suspected that its founding scientists were very interested in cancer trends, and indeed I found a major study in the first ...
PRODUCTION-SIDE ENVIRONMENTALISM
Feb 19, 2009; ... Corporate "environmentalism" is consumer-side environmentalism. "Make your dollars work for the Earth." "Buy green!" "Purchase this green gewgaw instead of that ungreen gadget." "Feel guilty about driving your car." Consumer-side environmentalism is loath to discuss ...
FEARS OVER 'SCANDAL' OF DEMOLITION POLLUTION
Feb 12, 2009; ... Pollution from the demolition of old buildings could blow a gaping hole in government attempts to tackle global warming, experts have warned. Ministers have been accused of "a scandal and a cover-up" for failing to devise a strategy for dealing with the huge amount of hazardous chemicals ...