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Silent Spring Releases Study on Effects of Early Life Exposures to Common Chemicals I am pleased to share with you the new articles Silent Spring Institute released today on early life exposures to common chemicals and effects on breast development, breast-feeding, and breast cancer risk. The review and a [...] If you agree to let NStar, or anyone else, spray hormone-mimicking chemicals into our environment (because cutting the foliage down takes too much time?), this is what you’re signing on for. Not only will it poison the water and soil we all must use, but it will so significantly affect the health and well-being of our children that they will no longer be children, and the results will be irreversible. I think this is a terrible tragedy. To prevent it requires that we exercise the precautionary principle of not using a substance till it is proved safe, rather than using something till it is proved dangerous. Will this be an inconvenience for NStar? Apparently. Will it cost more not to spray these chemicals? Perhaps. Do our children’s lives and health matter enough to restrain NStar from spraying? I guess we’ll see! NSTAR, Cape Cod’s electrical utility, is planning to spray a mixture of herbicides and inert chemicals to disperse the spray along 150 miles of its transmission right-of-ways beginning in the spring of 2011 if the current moratorium is not continued. While NSTAR is confidently saying that the pesticides have been approved, this article explains how [...] |
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