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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Pretty wild that they don’t even talk about pollution in their cancer prevention and control strategies. Pollution is the cause for almost half of the approx 2 million lung cancer deaths every year.

    I believe lead in the atmosphere contributes to a million deaths every year (I have seen as high as 5 million) from cardio vascular disease.

    I remember a study about immigrants that followed families when they immigrated to a country and then moved back to their birth country decades later. What they found is their cancer rates changed based on where they lived.

    I suspect that we are only touching the tip of the iceberg of understanding just how many deaths environmental degredation through pollution causes. I am thinking it is in the in the tens of millions every year. This number may mean we have lost a billion people in the last fifty years.

    Perhaps this is the true cost of ignoring our pollution problems. We haven’t even talked about global warming either which seems to overshadow the staggering loss of life we already experience.

















  • Thank you. I love my family and I wish I made like $80 an hour. We all have to live within our means, it is just inflation has made everything so much more more expensive. I also didn’t buy a home until three years ago so I am late to the game with a 6% mortgage.

    I can totally see why some people struggle and even fail through no fault of their own. If I came down with something awful like cancer it would probably cost my family everything. That is what I think is wrong.