I remember being fascinated watching a documentary on the Rouge Plant, described by Wikipedia as the "largest integrated factory in the world". They even raised their own sheep which they then sheared for wool for upholstery or carpeting.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ann" wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ wrote: > > > > > > Maybe she felt suffocated by you?? Hey, its possible - I've lived plenty of places with dirty air, including daily exposure to DDT when younger, and suffered no ill health as a result - used to enjoy long distance running after that. Just sayin' > > > > Big tanker trucks in my neighborhood outside of Chicago used to roll through the quiet suburban streets in the evenings back in the early '60's fogging the streets with plumes of DDT and our favorite pastime as children was to follow these trucks pedaling our bikes like mad playing in the clouds of pesticide. They were rolling banks of poisonous fog that looked so cool to us. > > > > > I grew up in Detroit a few miles from the Ford Rouge Plant and coke ovens on Zug Island. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zug_Island The sky was a dingy orange by the plant and a bright orange when the coke ovens lit the sky at night. I've never had any discernible ill effect on my health from living in this environment and I'm still healthy. Apparently, whether or not one's body reacts adversely to pollution has to do with gene silencing. > > "Gene silencing is a general term describing epigenetic processes of gene regulation. The term gene silencing is generally used to describe the "switching off" of a gene by a mechanism other than genetic modification. That is, a gene which would be expressed ("turned on") under normal circumstances is switched off by machinery in the cell. Gene silencing occurs when RNA is unable to make a protein during translation." Wikipedia > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > > > > > I have lived in only one of the cities in this chart, Paris. And, sadly, > > > > as much as I love the city of Paris, I have to agree with this study's > > > > assessment -- despite the Good Intentions and Actual Laws Enacted of the > > > > city's Gay Green Mayor, Paris is fuckin' polluted. I am fortunately not > > > > hideously badly affected by pollution, but my best friend, with whom I > > > > shared a nice apartment there, was not. She spent her years in Paris > > > > fighting a multitude of respiratory ailments that she attributed to > > > > breathing the air of the City Of Lights. > > > > > > > > And yet. We've never had to deal with *these* cities: > > > > > > > > [531] > > > > > > > > The full article is on The Economist, at: > > > > http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/01/daily-chart-11?fsrc\ \ > > > > =rss > > > > > > > c=rss> > > > > > > > > > >
