THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume XIII, Issue # 84, April 3, 2011
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
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WARNING! JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING WILL KILL YOU
By Alan Caruba
PERCEPTIONS OF ENVIRONMENTALISTS: EVERYTHING ASSOCIATED WITH HUMAN LIFE & CIVILIZATION IS AN
ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS. AIR! WATER! FOSSIL FUELS! NUCLEAR ENERGY! FOOD! ACCORDING TO LIBERAL DEMOCRAT &
ENVIRONMENTALIST AL GORE, THE SEAS ARE RISING, THE POLES ARE MELTING, & WE MUST DRASTICALLY REDUCE
EMISSIONS OF CARBON DIOXIDE, A GAS UPON WHICH ALL LIFE DEPENDS.
FULL STORY:
According to a new book, The Healthy Home, every single room in your home or apartment is lethal. You would be
better off living in a tent in the woods somewhere, as far as the authors are concerned.
Among the life-threatening hazards is the need to remove your shoes before entering your home to avoid walking around
“unwittingly in car oil, pesticides, animal waste,” and other “toxins.”
And did you know that “non-stick pots and pans release potential hazardous fumes and particles into the air such as toxic
gases, carcinogens, and global pollutants”? Cook a meal and die!
And, please, get rid of those wrinkle-free sheets because they can “expose you to the chemical PFC (perfluorochemicals)”
that are “linked to reproductive and development toxicity, as well as cancers of the bladder and liver.” There you are,
getting what you think is a good night’s sleep and, instead, you’re under attack by your sheets!
This hideous book goes on to explain why fluorescent light bulbs “will make you feel drained and lethargic” and “electrical
appliances create EMFs (electromagnetic fields).”
It’s not just one book. There’s Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis. We are
informed that “From bug spray, to ‘tuna salad, the new lead paint’, to her own deck made of pressure-treated wood (which
contains the carcinogen — and developmental neurotoxicant — arsenic)”, the author goes off on a paranoid bender.
As we all know, everything is an environmental crisis. Air! Water! Fossil fuels! Nuclear energy! Food! If you believe Al
Gore, the seas are rising, the poles are melting, and we just have to reduce carbon dioxide, a gas upon which all life (along
with oxygen) depends.
Those of my generation enjoy sending around lists of things we did when we were growing up in the 1930s and 1940s.
They remind us that we slept in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-base paints, there were no childproof lids on
medicine bottles, and when we rode our bikes we did not wear helmets.
We ate cupcakes, cookies, white bread, real butter, and bacon. We did not have play stations, Nintendo’s and video
games, or televisions with 150 channels. This list goes on, but the point is that, unless it was raining, we were outside
playing! We got tons of exercise, lots of sunshine, and no one was constantly warning us against everything, real or
imagined, that could kill us, except against playing in the street. And we did that, too.
NEWS: LIFE EXPECTANCY AT ALL-TIME HIGH
So what are we to make of the latest news that says that life expectancy in the United States is at an all-time high?
The latest report from the Centers for Disease Control says that, in 2009, life expectancy exceeded 78 years for the first
time ever. When my Father was born in 1901, life expectancy was 47.3 years. He lived to age 93. Mother lived to 98!
How insane are all those people producing research study reports, like a recent one from Wageningen University in the
Netherlands noting that insects produce far less greenhouse gases than cattle and pigs do, and would be “a viable
alternative to eating meat”? That’s right! The Greens want you to start eating bugs to save the Earth!
The latest big scare is nuclear radiation from the Japanese nuclear reactors, the result of the biggest earthquake to hit
that nation in years. In the U.S.A., you will get more radiation just getting a suntan in your backyard this Summer.
It may not kill you, but a $14 trillion debt may kill the economy of the United States, if Congress doesn’t get around to
cutting the insane waste of money the government spends every day, such as the $60 million that the U.S. Department
of Agriculture is giving three public universities -- $20 million each, in Florida, Iowa, and Idaho -- to study the “impact
that global warming will have” on crops and forests? Only there is NO global warming. The Earth has been in a perfectly
natural COOLING cycle since 1998.
I am all for a healthy lifestyle. Too much of anything is likely to be bad for you, but the odds are that you are among the
millions of Americans who will live to age 78 and well beyond.
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© Alan Caruba, 2011
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Political Environmentalism Versus Human Progress & Prosperity:
Policy Issues Relating to Energy, Environment,
& Natural Resources
Science, Ethics, & Human Health:
Human Health & Public Policy
Political Economy -- Philosophies, Systems, & Public Policies:
Government, the Economy, & Economic Prosperity
Alan Caruba writes a daily post at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com. An author, commentator and business and science writer,
he is the Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about media-driven "scare campaigns" designed
to influence public opinion and public policy.
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