Frank A. Von Hippel is an expert in ecotoxicology: the study of how pollutants impact human health and the environment at large. A professor at Northern Arizona University, Von Hippel is the author of The Chemical Age: How Chemists Fought Famine and Disease, Killed Millions, and Changed Our Relationship with the Earth, and the host of The Science History Podcast.
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In Canada, at Ft. Chipewyan, downstream from the tarsands, the local doctor discovered rare cancers that he said he never thought he would see more than two or three cases of, in his life. The got rid of him.
DuPont slogan from 1935 to 1982: "Better Things for Better Living….Through Chemistry." The "through chemistry" was dropped in 1982.
We have known this for years. Any living thing that is not marketable, or is in competition, is killed with cancer causing chemicals.In Canada, glyphosate is sprayed on forests to kill competing species. It also kills all wild plants, some of which are medicinal, and even used by animals as medicine.
I love the studio.