Health & Environment

• Climate change is real and poses a threat to every living thing on the earth. 
• 7 New Items including:
  • Google Earth GIFs, 'Timelapse' Project, Show Startling Impact Of Humans On The Planet
  • Fracking Debris Ten Times Too Radioactive for Hazardous Waste Landfill
  • Frack You and the Sand You Rode In On
  • Toxic and Tax Exempt, We Pay the Bill for Tar Sands Cleanup
  • She Was Right
  • Tell President Obama: We Can't Trust Shell in the Arctic
  • Tell the Bureau of Land Management (BLM): Stop fueling global climate change

David Culver, Ed., Evergreene Digest

Bill Day

Google Earth GIFs, 'Timelapse' Project, Show Startling Impact Of Humans On The Planet, Huffington Post

• The project features incredible environmental changes, including the retreat of the Columbia Glacier, deforestation in Brazil and coal mining in Wyoming.
• Martin Luther King And The Call To Direct Action On Climate

Fracking Debris Ten Times Too Radioactive for Hazardous Waste Landfill, Abby Zimet, Common Dreams

The scariest thing here: Pennsylvania, which is currently studying radiation contamination associated with fracking wells, claims to be the only state that even requires landfills to monitor radiation levels.

Frack You and the Sand You Rode In On, Terry J. Allen, In These Times

• Increasingly, vast, open-pit frac-sand mines blight the landscape like earth’s own acne.Fracking’s evil twin: the mining of prehistoric sand.
• Monsanto Wrote Monsanto Protection Act

Toxic and Tax Exempt, We Pay the Bill for Tar Sands Cleanup, Erin O'Sullivan, EcoWatch

The experiences of people of Marshall, Michigan may shed light on what the citizens of Mayflower, Arkansas may now be in for.

She Was Right, Arrianna Huffington, Huffington Post <>

• In 1962, Rachel Carson began sounding the alarm about the dangers of exposure to chemicals and the failure of the industry and regulators to protect people from those dangers. 
• Fifty years later, Lynne Peeples's anniversary feature in Huffington is a reminder that we have failed to heed many of Carson's warnings, especially when it comes to protecting our most precious resource, our children. 
• Chemistry Lessons: Living With Rachel Carson's Legacy 

Tell President Obama: We Can't Trust Shell in the Arctic, Dan Ritzman, Sierra Club

• Now, with just a few days left before they want to start drilling, they've admitted that their equipment isn't up to par – and they have no way to fix it before they start drilling.
• Oil and gas marauders are destroying our land, water, and communities all over America
• Tell the Bureau of Land Management (BLM): Stop fueling global climate change

Tell the Bureau of Land Management (BLM): Stop fueling global climate change, Credo Action

As climate change bears down on us, you'd expect our government to cut back on burning our dirtiest fuels, like coal. Instead, we're just giving it away to coal companies.

• Lessons From Harry Chapin’s Classic School Shooter Song
• Brain-altering Psych Drugs as a Tipping Point to Overt Acts of Violence
• De-mystifying the mass shootings seems to be a taboo subject 

Gary G. Kohls, MD, Duty to Warn / Evergreene Digest

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May 17, 2013 | I have been involved in the mental ill health industry in various ways since the early 1990s. In the last decade of my medical career I was an independent holistic mental health care practitioner. I found myself frequently feeling obligated to function as a whistle-blower, exposing a psychopharmaceutical drug industry that had enormous numbers of serious, often unrecognized problems, many of them brain-disabling, addicting or even lethal.

Starting with the wake-up call of the Columbine school massacre in 1999, I became acutely aware of the close connections between the epidemic of mass shootings and the widespread use of prescription antidepressants for adolescents  (which are illegal, for good reasons, to be prescribed in the under age 18 group in Great Britain). In my study of the problem, I discovered that mass shootings escalated dramatically after Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft hit the market in the decade prior to Eric Harris was started on Zoloft and then was switched to Luvox. (See www.ssristories.com for much more on the topic of drug-induced violence.).

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