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Davey Kruger week8

Her clear and precise presentation of hind sight undermines my confidence in our society’s ability to learn from its mistakes. This book has been in circulation for almost halve a century, and still we dust our crops poisoning the water, the worms, the fish and our selves. “Storage of the chlorinated hydrocarbons, as we have seen, is cumulative, beginning with the smallest intake.”(pg 190). When my father was a young farmer in Minnesota he was sprayed with DDT, all in an attempt to wipe out 70 to 80 percent of the planets species (294). I may not have been sprayed directly but I know that in all likelihood my body contains trace amounts of that bug killer. I didn’t consume this willingly, but neither did the fish of the Northwest Miramichi.  I can speak out against pesticides and be glad it wasn’t my mother who was sprayed, but I will no doubt consume, before death, so many additional parts per million produced by a factory thousands of miles away.  By continuing to spread and ingest pesticides in hopes of an increased crop yield we turn a so called age of science into an age of negligence. In 1960 “twelve per cent of all deaths in children between the ages of one and fourteen are caused by cancer.”(221) In 2007 they are projecting that about 1,444,920 new people will be diagnosed with cancer, and about 1,500 people per day are going to loose their life. (ww.cancer.org/docroot/STT/stt_0.asp) Since there is no sure cure of cancer we must now work on prevention. It is currently improbable to prevent the statistically projected deaths of 2007. We need to turn hindsight to foresight; however I am afraid that we are moving too slow. The deaths of 2007 could have been prevented years and years ago.

‹ Amanda Hakan wk.8 [0]

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