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[Gonz]

The numbers of sufferers of brain diseases, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and motor neurone disease, have soared across the West in less than 20 years, scientists have discovered.

The alarming rise, which includes figures showing rates of dementia have trebled in men, has been linked to rises in levels of pesticides, industrial effluents, domestic waste, car exhausts and other pollutants, says a report in the journal Public Health.

Guardian

Has pesticide use gone up? Indusrty has cleaned up. What changes to waste? Car exhaust & other pollutants have been dramatically cut.

However, many of the solutions created by & forced into legislation through liberal domestic policy could be the cause. Did cars have catalytic converters before 1979? Haven't many pest/algi/herbcides had to change formulas to be more eco-friendly? All this clean-up has occured during that span.

It would fit the typical scenario. Multiple times the cure for the cure has proven worse than the disease.

 

[chcr]

Multiple times the cure for the cure has proven worse than the disease.

True enough. I wonder if anyone else is aware that catalytic converters were designed to scrub large particulates from industrial diesels (large trucks, commercial genrators, etc.)? The cost/benefit ratio on gas engines is ludicrous.

 

[MrBishop]

Guardian

Has pesticide use gone up? Indusrty has cleaned up. What changes to waste? Car exhaust & other pollutants have been dramatically cut.

However, many of the solutions created by & forced into legislation through liberal domestic policy could be the cause. Did cars have catalytic converters before 1979? Haven't many pest/algi/herbcides had to change formulas to be more eco-friendly? All this clean-up has occured during that span.

It would fit the typical scenario. Multiple times the cure for the cure has proven worse than the disease.

What you have to keep in mind is that the catalytic converters reduces emissions per vehicle...but the multiplier (number of vehicles on the road) has gone up. Ditto the use of pesticides etc...

That and...it takes a while before the pollutants take effect. Smokers don't get lung cancer after their first year....

 

[Gato_Solo]

What you have to keep in mind is that the catalytic converters reduces emissions per vehicle...but the multiplier (number of vehicles on the road) has gone up. Ditto the use of pesticides etc...

That and...it takes a while before the pollutants take effect. Smokers don't get lung cancer after their first year....

Most smokers never get lung cancer, and you get more airborne carcinogens pumping gasoline than you do from smoking (same chemicals). As for your argument about cumulative effect pollution, Kudos...