There was an additional 15% increase in colony collapses from the previous year according to the USDA.
The NEW EPA(the one that has no interest in protecting the air and the water) under the NEW PRESIDENT(the most obvious narcissistic human ever to hold this office) does not accept the science and basically has slowed down their interest in preventing Colony Collaspe Disorder.
In other words.....FUCK THE BEES......SUPPORT THE CHEMICAL COMPANIES AT ALL COST.
Just to understand how far behind our government is regarding this issue.
In 2013 the EU banned SOME neonicotinoids and this year restricted the use of the pesticide to greenhouses.
I've previously spent serious time writing about CCD and if you are unaware of the problem then you are one of those people who has chosen to ignore information in order to remain calm and happy.
Happiness might be based on much truth one can ignore (from Neo-Illumination # 6)
The Trump Asbestos story falls into the surreal category.
Asbestos is a set of six naturally occurring silicate minerals,[1] which all have in common their eponymous asbestiformhabit: i.e. long (roughly 1:20 aspect ratio), thin fibrous crystals, with each visible fiber composed of millions of microscopic "fibrils" that can be released by abrasion and other processes.[2] They are commonly known by their colors, as blue asbestos, brown asbestos, white asbestos, and green asbestos.[3]
Asbestos mining existed more than 4,000 years ago, but large-scale mining began at the end of the 19th century, when manufacturers and builders began using asbestos for its desirable physical properties.[1] Some of those properties aresound absorption, average tensile strength, affordability, and resistance to fire, heat, and electricity. It was used in such applications as electrical insulation for hotplate wiring and in building insulation. When asbestos is used for its resistance to fire or heat, the fibers are often mixed with cement or woven into fabric or mats. These desirable properties made asbestos very widely used. Asbestos use continued to grow through most of the 20th century until public knowledge of the health hazards of asbestos dust led to its outlawing by courts and legislatures in mainstream construction and fireproofingin most countries.
Inhalation of asbestos fibers can cause serious and fatal illnesses including lung cancer, mesothelioma, and asbestosis (a type of pneumoconiosis).[4][5] Concern of asbestos-related illness in modern times began with the 20th century and escalated during the 1920s and 1930s. By the 1980s and 1990s, asbestos trade and use were heavily restricted, phased out, or banned outright in an increasing number of countries.[6]
Despite the severity of asbestos-related diseases, the material has extremely widespread use in many areas. Continuing long-term use of asbestos after harmful health effects were known or suspected, and the slow emergence of symptoms decades after exposure ceased, made asbestos litigation the longest, most expensive mass tort in U.S. history and a much lesser legal issue in most other countries involved.[7] Asbestos-related liability also remains an ongoing concern for many manufacturers, insurers and reinsurers. On July 12, 2018, a Missouri jury ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay a record $4.69 billion to 22 women who alleged the company’s talc-based products, including its baby powder, contain asbestos and caused them to develop ovarian cancer.[8]
I was told my a neighbor yesterday that I drink it everyday in the tap water.
FACT CHECK. A Canadian study from 2002
Water Asbestos is introduced into water by the dissolution of asbestos-containing minerals and ores as well as from industrial effluents, atmospheric pollution, and A/C pipes in waterdistribution systems. Exfoliation of asbestos fibres from A/C pipes is related to the aggressiveness of the water supply (3). Although A/C piping is used in about 19% of water-distribution systems in Canada, erosion of such piping appeared to contribute measurably to the asbestos content of water supplies at 2 only two of 71 locations surveyed (7). In contrast, high levels of asbestos have been recorded in association with the severe deterioration of A/C pipe containing chrysotile and crocidolite in Woodstock, New York (USA) (8). Chrysotile was the predominant type of asbestos detected in a national survey of the water supplies of 77 communities in Canada; concentrations varied from not detectable (<0 .1="" 0.5="" 2000="" concentrations="" estimated="" fibre="" in="" it="" lengths="" m.="" median="" mfl="" range="" that="" the="" to="" was="" were="" while="">1 MFL in the water supplies of 25% of the population, >10 MFL for 5% of the population, and >100 MFL for 0.6% of the population. Concentrations were higher in raw than in treated water (7).
The results of a number of surveys indicate that most of the population of the USA consumes drinking-water containing asbestos in concentrations below 1 MFL (9). In 1974, concentrations of optically visible fibres up to 33 MFL were detected in drinking-water supplies in the Netherlands (10).
The results of a survey of asbestos concentrations in raw and treated waters in the United Kingdom suggest that most drinking-waters contain asbestos fibres in concentrations varying from not detectable up to 1 MFL (11)
EXACT LEVELS OF ASBESTOS IN OUR WATER.
The EPA has established a maximum contaminant level (MCL) for asbestos in drinking water of 7 million fibers per liter (MFL) > 10 µm in length. ...
Whether you agree with the FWR, the EPA or both, what all of this means is—yes, asbestos could be in your drinking water.
NOW SWALLOW THIS!!!!!!
A new study in Italy that says drinking asbestos might be as dangerous as breathing it.....and with that thought......
I give you our Presidential Seal of approval.
Russian asbestos company that operates a giant mine in the Ural Mountains is marketing its wares with President Trump’s image, according to photos it posted on social media, citing former EPA administrator Scott Pruitt as well as Trump’s outspoken support for the carcinogen.
The company Uralasbest posted photos of the pallets adorned with a seal with Trump’s face in the center on its Facebook page in June.
“Approved by Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States,” the seal read, according to a translation supplied by the Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit focused on human health and the environment that flagged the posting.
I'M NOT TELLING YOU NOT TO VOTE FOR TRUMP IN 2020....
BUT IF YOU DO....THEN YOU DON'T GIVE ONE THOUGHT TO THE FUTURE OF YOUR CHILDREN OR YOUR GRANDCHILDREN.
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Michael Timothy McAlevey
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