Sorry, I know, dramatic title, not very positive.
Not to say I’m in an entirely funky mood, but I’ve just been “researching,” and I feel like now I know more, and at the same time realize the dire problems we face as a culture.
You’ve heard me mention this once or twice. What we’re doing ISN’T working.
Indeed.
So, let’s take a basic life sustaining product: no, not television… but WATER.
We drink it, and there’s controversy. Should we drink eight glasses? Or a certain number of ounces per body weight? Should we buy bottled? Or drink the city’s water?
I know, I know, over-thinking it again, are we?
Well, let’s look at it this way… we drink fluorinated water… because it’s good for our teeth. Because it’s what the dentists recommend. Because that’s what we have. We pay for our water, and we conserve it because we’re good environmentalists.
But then we hear a breath-taking report that there are pharmaceuticals in our water. We discover that there are prescription drugs– from anti-psychotics to vitamins to antibiotics to estrogen… well, there’s a whole damn lot of pharmaceuticals in our water. How’d all that junk get there? Well, it survived the treatment at the local treatment plant… stuff that we flush down the toilet along with our human excrement. The pharms got there through our urine. And don’t worry, we’re not drinking urine when we open that cold tap water– we’re drinking filtered, cleaned water. Urine is mostly water, no? Un-metabolized pharmaceuticals that left our bodies and are not caught in the filtration… It also behooves me to mention that our water supplies easily and readily become polluted by the contaminants (including carcinogens) that wash out of our food supplies– via herbicides, pesticides and fertilizers.
Does anyone see a problem with this?
Curious to know what the EPA calls contaminants?
I know I’m neurotic. I worry about my own death on a fairly frequent basis. It just seems to me that maybe I’m just not that crazy. Now, I don’t need to be all panicky and worrisome and stuff without finding out the actual threat, which I plan to do. (Suddenly organic chemistry seems much more interesting.)
I guess I just wanted to throw out there that here is a lot of stuff that we never think about– it’s SO much easier to live obliviously.
Shouldn’t you care, too?
4 Responses to “We’re Fucked.”
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April 12th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
sounds terrible, I am sure this has been happening for so long, and they wonder what are the factors that contribute to people to develop all those degenerative sickness and cancer, is important that we try to at least don’t poison ourselves more with the foods and drinks we take in our regular and commun life, thank you for sharing this great blog, Hey who is not going to be neurotic in this society?… I am on the list…
April 13th, 2008 at 9:18 am
“Neuroses are my pets.” ~my former roomie Allison.
April 13th, 2008 at 10:55 am
You had me at “fucked”…
April 13th, 2008 at 11:19 am
*grin* You had me at “Olivia Munn”