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Pollution and Cancer

“The clear and compelling case for strict legislation”

This is the knee-jerk reaction to the discovery that 35 toxic chemicals have been found in a random sample of blood taken from a healthy little girl in Devon. We know that cancer does not occur in the wild, where there is no chemical pollution. We also know that in parts of the USA, pollution is much worse than in the glorious countryside of Devon. There in America an epidemic of cancer is occurring.

We spend billions of pounds on cancer research, whilst we know that cancer is a man made killer due to man made pollution. It is a poor sort of civilisation that has pollution raging out of control and cancer statistics following suit. It is already a culture strangled with legislation. Do we seriously believe that increasing one evil can cure another evil.

Global heating is far more likely to kill us all before we have a chance to die of cancer on mass. Heating up the planet cannot be done without causing pollution, therefore better by far than stricter and heavier legislation, would be an end to commercial warfare. By understanding and removing the cause of commercial warfare.

We all know, if we look, that the global economy is insolvent, and the people of Earth owe more money than could ever be repaid.

This is a hard fact to believe, when we read that more and more of us are becoming millionaires and billionaires are now two a penny. It seems, we are awash with money and drowning in debt.

But that is not surprising when we discover that in order to survive as the human race, we are forced to borrow our currency into existence.

That is really a very silly way to run a global economy.

Using debt as our currency makes fair trading impossible.

We create vast surpluses of most everything. General Motors are about to sack 30,000 of its employees. We create more than we can sell and then allow much of the human race to live in the direst poverty.

We turn a blind eye to their suffering. Out of our ignorance we are amazed at the trouble and strife in the world and puzzle at the existence of escalating terrorism.

It is really very stupid, to imagine that man made disasters will be cured by man made legislation. Legislation that is virtually irrelevant. We have played this game of borrowing money into existence, for too long. Give it a break.

Doctor Edward C Hamlyn MBChB