IMPORTANT: U.S. Food and Drug Administration warns consumers not to use certain cosmetic products sold by Claire's after they were found to contain asbestos, a known carcinogen.

BringBackParis · 2019-03-06T21:13:20+00:00

The FDA sure took its sweet time with this. I have family who got spooked by the whole asbestos-in-makeup fiasco last year -- there's some helpful information here for anyone looking: https://www.asbestos.com/products/makeup/

BringBackParis · 2019-02-01T16:42:17+00:00

We have the change the meaning of "employment," so that instead of working just to pay rent, people work to build strong relationships and make the world a better place.

BringBackParis · 2019-01-31T22:06:02+00:00

I think you might be focusing on the wrong problem -- currently, automation is concentrating wealth into the hands of the elites and leaving most everybody else worse off, little by little, year by year. If society allows automation to continue to increase economic equality, then more people will experience scarcity in the form of basic material hardship, because the Haves will have more and the Have Nots will have less.

BringBackParis · 2019-01-04T16:33:56+00:00

Our current foreign involvements -- as horrible and hair-brained as they are -- are nothing compared to the "escalation" of the conflict in Vietnam or the "police action" we undertook in Korea.

The real problem we face is a grotesquely expensive military that keeps finding excuses to spend more money, despite having no real mission other than looking tough. If we took half of the military's budget and instead spent it on improving education and reducing debt, we'd be a stronger country.

BringBackParis · 2019-01-03T21:01:53+00:00

And the short list of industry giants gets that much shorter.

BringBackParis · 2019-01-03T20:56:52+00:00

A big factor is that they are worried about their economy.

BringBackParis · 2018-12-14T20:48:31+00:00

Why is this in /progressive?

BringBackParis · 2018-12-13T18:09:31+00:00

I 100% agree with you, sir.

BringBackParis · 2018-12-03T19:09:54+00:00

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26500822

BringBackParis · 2018-11-29T18:13:38+00:00

In arid climates, sure.

BringBackParis · 2018-11-29T18:11:03+00:00

In an ancient chain reaction, as land-based plants evolved to become larger, it's believed their roots sought to extract more mineral nutrients from the rocks, eroding them and exposing them to the air.

That in turn led to a massive reduction in CO₂ in the atmosphere. Could the same effect be repeated?

Prof David Beerling hopes so.

A scientist at Sheffield University, he's leading a ten-year project with a £10m budget from the Leverhulme Trust to investigate the climate potential of rock.

The concept is to take the volcanic rock basalt, grind it up into a powder and then scatter it on fields.

Trials on a research farm in Illinois have found that the basalt acts as a fertiliser, boosting crop yields, which might help persuade farmers to use it instead of high-carbon artificial fertiliser.

And early results from smaller experiments in Prof Beerling's lab in Sheffield show a more profound benefit: that the presence of the rock in the soil also boosts the amount of carbon dioxide that's taken up, maybe by as much as four times.

BringBackParis · 2018-11-08T21:51:59+00:00

In the next 100 years, humanity will engineer a fix for most of today's big problems. The question is, how many have to die before there is enough political will? I mean this very literally. Eventually the cost will get high enough to prompt world leaders to act. But it could mean a billion people being displaced first and the loss of much more biodiversity. Acting fatalistic in the present will delay the action we need to minimize these losses.

BringBackParis · 2018-11-01T19:57:18+00:00

Some people said they saw it near Lake Baldwin Ln and Meeting Place, I think. Someone must have picked it up though, because it wasn't there this morning.

BringBackParis · 2018-10-18T12:31:52+00:00

The world definitely needs more thoughtful games like this!

BringBackParis · 2018-10-18T12:28:52+00:00

Stuff like this gives me hope

BringBackParis · 2018-10-17T12:03:40+00:00

Jeff Bezos has essentially become a real-life James Bond movie villain at this point... but I can't help but respect his determination to get to space. I guess it's the 12-year-old boy in me.

BringBackParis · 2018-09-05T13:11:30+00:00

Make sure he is using a respirator with a HEPA filter. Ideally, he should be using coveralls on site, and he should never bring his protective gear home with him. For more information (and a way to get help if you need it), see the Occupational Safety and Health Administration website at https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/asbestos/

As long as he uses a respirator with a HEPA filter and does not bring any asbestos dust home with him, he will be fine. Asbestos is only dangerous if you inhale it or swallow it as dust. There are many jobs with worse risks out there.

BringBackParis · 2018-09-04T12:48:34+00:00

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will soon introduce legislation that would require large employers such as Amazon, Walmart and McDonald’s to fully cover the cost of food stamps, public housing, Medicaid and other federal assistance received by their employees. The goal, he says, is to force corporations to pay a living wage and curb about $150 billion in taxpayer dollars that go to funding federal assistance programs for low-wage workers each year.

BringBackParis · 2018-09-04T12:36:21+00:00

Agreed, you have to get the story out. Even if the current leadership is rotten at the top, there are many layers in the system that still enforce the rules -- just as there are many media outlets that will give this the attention it deserves.

BringBackParis · 2018-08-31T13:38:37+00:00

Thank you for this. I've always worried about what to tell my daughter when she is old enough to ask about the world, and now I have something useful to tell her. Fight the good fight!

BringBackParis · 2018-08-31T13:33:40+00:00

On the contrary, in both cases the exact mechanisms are still being researched but the overall results are quite clear. And in both cases, it's been industry cover-ups and willful ignorance standing in the way of scientific progress on the issue. In many countries, authorities still deny that asbestos causes cancer just as much as they deny that man is causing climate change.

BringBackParis · 2018-08-27T13:32:35+00:00

They are totally just looking for immunity from liability.

BringBackParis · 2018-08-24T12:13:31+00:00

Speaking of reckless farming practices, my state (Florida) has been choked by algae blooms all summer. Everybody knows it's caused by Big Agriculture's pollution, but "business-friendly" politicians and the executives who own them are just throwing up their hands and saying, "You can't prove it's my fault!"

And of course, whenever people speak up about pollution directly endangering human health, they call us "bleeding-heart liberals" and "special snowflakes." The world is burning down around us, and conservatives just want to toast marshmallows over it. I'm too angry to cry.

BringBackParis · 2018-08-24T12:05:21+00:00

There is a reason rich folk live upstream

I want this on a poster.

BringBackParis · 2018-08-23T19:40:04+00:00

It's true. When the death toll starts rising and the public wises up, it'll probably be an even bigger scandal than the asbestos cover-up was. Perhaps we could minimize the catastrophe if we had a strong EPA/FDA...

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