What if I said tens of thousands of Canadians are dying each year because of the environmental burden of disease?
Did I get your attention?
Well, unfortunately, it's true and well-documented in a new study partly funded by the David Suzuki Foundation and featured this week in the scientific journal, Environmental Research. Environmental lawyer David R. Boyd and Dr. Stephen Genuis, from the University of Alberta, found that nearly 25,000 deaths are caused by exposure to environmental hazards. What's more, this huge gap in preventative medicine is costing our health care system up to $9.1 billion and 1.5 million hospital days annually. The study concludes by recommending stronger efforts to prevent adverse environmental exposures.
Enter the David Suzuki Foundation. You might recall that two weeks ago DSF released Prescription for a Healthy Canada, a report that calls for a national environmental health strategy. Unlike the U.S., Australia, and the European Union, Canada lacks both a national program to monitor children’s exposures to environmental contaminants, and a national system to track diseases and deaths caused by environmental contaminants.
Last month in Ottawa, David Suzuki and Sweden's Ambassador to Canada, Ingrid Iremark, discussed how government leaders need to address the environmental health concerns of their citizens. The event drew more than 1,400 people, ranging from students to health-care professionals.
Lora Bruncke
I just found out we line up live grade 6ers to inject formaldehyde, latex, msg in fetal bovine serum (short list)into their blood!
I can't decide if my son could be allergic, so I am refusing the vaccines.
Does this prove big business and government are after wealth not health?
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all you do!
Lora Bruncke
Correction, the vaccines are injected into muscle not directly into the blood. Sorry for the inaccuracy. Lora
Dave Dowling
i was just reading at msn
"Air pollution from smoke and various chemicals kills 3 million people a year, according to a new study from Cornell University. "
so it is probably a lot more than just 25,000 people in Canada dying from pollutants every year.
Usually Canada's statistics are about 1/10 th of the states. .
In My Opinion it could be as high as 300,000 people a year dying in Canada from Pollution.
Lora Bruncke
I am working on this poem and want to share it in case you have any advice!
Thanks!
One Story About The Birds and the Bees
Inspired by Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
Let me tell you one story about the birds and the bees.
It started with love for the flowers and trees.
A horror story now; but I can tell it with ease.
A biologist, my hero, Rachel Carson agrees.
Man met a beetle, then his toxic sprays came down.
It killed lots of things and the elms all turned brown.
Bad business decided to let some life drown,
In pesticides, which are toxic. Does it not make you frown?
Honey bees, earthworms and birds pesticided.
Dandelions, clover, and trees herbicided.
Sadly, young lungs and livers toxi-cided.
Has man thought it through? Have his gods been confided?
Why poison annoying but such tasty bugs?
Why kill nature's plants? To prescribe legal drugs?
How can we take down these immoral thugs?
We must stop them or die. No more life. No more hugs.
Mankind struggles with such a deadly habit.
He likes to destroy it. He likes to pollute it.
He exercises for ego, not to keep the earth fit,
For all children, who deserve their future on it.
Why spray to destroy, to abuse or to kill?
Is it just for the wealth, or for love of a thrill?
The left and the right fight a battle of will.
Most of us want to preserve the bird twill!
All of those able to damage with ease.
Make me sick to my senses and I want to cry 'FREEZE!
We must save all the birds and the meek bumble bees!
For children's sake. Please save them! Please! Pretty please!
Love Lora Bruncke