Cancer is purely man-made
Cancer is a modern, man-made disease caused by environmental factors such as pollution and diet, a study by University of Manchester scientists has strongly suggested.
The study of remains and literature from ancient Egypt and Greece and earlier periods – carried out at Manchester’s KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology and published in Nature Reviews Cancer – includes the first histological diagnosis of cancer in an Egyptian mummy. Finding only one case of the disease in the investigation of hundreds of Egyptian mummies, with few references to cancer in literary evidence, proves that cancer was extremely rare in antiquity. The disease rate has risen massively since the Industrial Revolution, in particular childhood cancer – proving that the rise is not simply due to people living longer. Professor Rosalie David, at the Faculty of Life Sciences, said: “In industrialised societies, cancer is second only to cardiovascular disease as a cause of death. But in ancient times, it was extremely rare. There is nothing in the natural environment that can cause cancer. So it has to be a man-made disease, down to pollution and changes to our diet and lifestyle.”
She added: “The important thing about our study is that it gives a historical perspective to this disease. We can make very clear statements on the cancer rates in societies because we have a full overview. We have looked at millennia, not one hundred years, and have masses of data.” [Psyorg]
Putting Plastic Pollution into Context
There is a wikipedia page for the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It is a patch of plastic garbage that floats in Earth’s North Pacific Gyre. It is the SIZE of TEXAS and GROWING. It is the SIZE of TEXAS and GROWING. It is the SIZE of TEXAS and GROWING. WTF? It has a wikipedia page. It is the SIZE of TEXAS and GROWING. Seriously. There are numerous videos you can youtube and view this patch of garbage. But the issue is bigger than the garbage patch. It’s how we view the world and our connection -or lack of it- with the Earth that is driving our own destruction.
Links
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5296OE20090310
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/06/eveningnews/main591770.shtml
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/090731-ocean-trash-pacific.html
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I’ve heard about this island before. Reminds me of the Futurama episode where they launch all their garbage into space, circles the galaxy, then comes hurling back at the Earth. Classic. (circa 1999)
Ya anthony. kinda but no quite. we’re not as imaginative on planet earth as they are on futurama.