sierra club factoids
March 15, 2011
bouncing on my exercise ball and reading the march/april 2011 issue of sierra club news that rescued from the library’s free magazine bin, i am alarmed. people, i bring you the zany truth.
“L.A County officially bans plastic bags.”
“The hormone-disrupting chemical BPA is found on half of all cash register receipts and nearly all dollar bills. Doubling the level of BPA in women’s blood, researchers find, halves the percentage of eggs that fertilize normally in vitro.”
“Children who live close to freeways are twice as likely to be autistic”
“Pregnant women who use cell phone are more likely to have disobedient children.”
“White ibis exposed to mercury are more likely to be homosexual.”
“South Korea is building a 500-Turbine, 2500-megawatt offshore wind farm.”
“There’s not enough ozone in the upper atmosphere so whales in the Gulf of California are getting severe sunburn.”
“California regulators OK a new carcinogenic pesticide for strawberries to replace the old carcinogenic pesticide that they outlawed.”
“Endangered mountain gorillas in central Africa make a dramatic recovery, with one of two populations increasing by 26% since 2003.”
“Half the incoming Republican members of Congress do not believe that global warming is real.”
“World carbon emissions in 2010 are expected to be the highest in history.”
More on the web at http://sierraclub.org/sierra/201103/uptospeed.aspx
good night and good luck, world.
