Live CO2 emissions of the European electricity production
The Devil’s Hair Dryer: Hell is other people, with leaf blowers.
running a leafblower for 30 minutes creates more emissions than driving a F-150 pickup truck 3800 miles,”
… “About one-third of the gasoline that goes into this sort of engine is spewed out, unburned, in an aerosol mixed with oil in the exhaust.”
America Is Flint
In Flint, 4.9 percent of children tested for lead turned out to have elevated levels. That’s inexcusable. But in 2014 in New York State outside of New York City, the figure was 6.7 percent. In Pennsylvania, 8.5 percent. On the west side of Detroit, one-fifth of the children tested in 2014 had lead poisoning. In Iowa for 2012, the most recent year available, an astonishing 32 percent of children tested had elevated lead levels.
.. Across America, 535,000 children ages 1 through 5 suffer lead poisoning, by C.D.C. estimates.
.. Researchers soon found that early exposure to lead impairs brain development and is strongly associated with later violent or criminal behavior.
.. Yet the lead industry ferociously fought attempts at regulation. It wasn’t until the 1970s and ’80s that lead was largely removed from gasoline, and until 2008 that a regulation reduced lead in paint to a reasonable level. Millions of children continue to suffer brain impairment because of the greed of the lead industry.