Pesticide-intensive agriculture has become the default for how food is grown in the United States. Did you know agriculture uses more than one billion pounds (1,000,000,000 lb) of conventional pesticides in the US each year? Failures abound. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) biomonitoring has found pesticide residues … [continued]
In the midst of the pandemic when input from the CDC should be most viral, the agency had been completely silenced by Trump until Redfield opened his mouth and got slapped down. The last CDC daily briefing was held on March 9. After that, such briefings were cancelled in order to not incur the Wrath Of Trump.
We are being forced to endure a chilling situation. The White House has taken control over the voice of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) during the COVID-19 pandemic and, at times, has used its own voice to actively undermine the CDC’s recommendations.
The CDC now recommends Americans wear cloth face masks or some other face covering out in public. A video shared by Lex Fridman demonstrates just how vital it is to wear something over our faces — not to protect the wearer but those the wearer interacts with. If everyone had a mask, we would all be safer.
This week the Trump administration issued a supplemental notice to a draft rule long feared by many in the public health and scientific communities as a major disruption to science-based policy as we know it.
C. auris appears to be the first disease found in humans which is caused by the changing climate, as opposed to known diseases that are migrating to new regions due to global warming.
Some people say they like the smell of gasoline, but that sweet odor they are talking about is probably a chemical called benzene, which is a known carcinogen. The World Health Organization, an international public health agency associated with the United Nations, has written this statement about the chemical: “Benzene … [continued]
To supply a public health perspective on climate change, Dr. Boris D. Lushniak, MD, MPH, retired Rear Admiral, and dean of the University of Maryland School of Public Health, answered some questions for CleanTechnica.
The event will provide a crucial platform for the diverse stakeholders in the public health and climate communities to come together around solutions.
Well, it’s a pretty philosophical topic when you get down to it — we’re all going to die, it’s up for debate whether we have any control over when or how we die, and it’s up for debate if dying prematurely is a negative thing or doesn’t matter at all. But, basically, I assume what most people assume — we should do what we can to avoid “premature” death and we should do what we can to not cause other people and animals premature death.
