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How Can Conserving Water Harm Our Environment ?
(c) Copyright 2001-2016 David Dilworth Paradoxically, using less water can actually increase total water use. Wait. What? That’s backwards. It doesn’t make sense. How could this be possible? If you use less water, how can it increase water use ? … Continue reading
Posted in Big Picture, Environmental Law, Paradox, Water
Tagged Carmel River, Golf Course, Pacific Grove, San Francisco Bay
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Its OUR Environment, not “The” Environment
(c) Copyright 2015 David Dilworth Ever try breathing air from another planet? Or eating vegetables grown in another solar system ? Of course not. We all breathe air from the same atmosphere and eat food grown from the same rain. … Continue reading
Extinction is Truly Forever
(c) Copyright 2005-2013 David Dilworth Some claim that toxic pollution or burning fossil fuels is the most devastating damage humans have done to our earth. Now of course, those are deadly serious problems, but are they the longest lasting harm … Continue reading
Posted in Big Picture, Education, Environmental Health, Interdependence
Tagged Carmel Valley, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered species, Environment, Environmental Issues, Evolutionary biology, Extinction, International Union for Conservation of Nature, less harmful chemicals, Passenger Pigeon, Pollution, Sea otter, Sea Otters, Southern Steelhead
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California Red-legged Frog (Rana Aurora Draytonii) are long-time Peninsula residents
Mark Twain first found fame for writing an account of a jumping frog contest in Calaveras County. While the story may be apocryphal, the “Celebrated Frogs” of Mark Twain’s article, the California red-legged frogs, as the largeset native frogs in … Continue reading
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Tagged Federal Register, FWS, Mark Twain, Rancho San Carlos
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Risk Assessment is a License to Kill
(c) Copyright 2001-2013 David j Dilworth “Risk Assessment” is Fraud. It is actually a highly disguised political choice to commit deadly harm. It actually answers the perverse question “How can I get away with all the environmental and human damage … Continue reading
Posted in Environmental Health, Environmental Law, Environmental Science, Human Health, Rationale, Staffocracy
Tagged Agriculture, California Department of Food and Agriculture, California Dept, Carmel, CDFA, deadly chemical, Environment, Environmental effects of pesticides, Environmental health, EPA, Ethics, Food and Drug Administration, License to Kill, Marina, Mary O'Brien, Monterey, Monterey Bay, Pesticide, Pesticide regulation in the United States, Pesticides, resources extractor, Risk, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Soil contamination, spokesman, Steve Lyle, United States Environmental Protection Agency, US Environmental Protection Agency
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How Can I Find Genuine Pesticide-Free Food?
(c) Copyright 2001-2013 David Dilworth Repeat after me — Pesticides are deadly poisons. They are explicitly intended, designed, manufactured, used and applied to kill. Period. Exclamation Point ! Pesticides have been intentionally applied abundantly to most food we consume in … Continue reading
So What are Bacteria Anyway?
I still remember my stunned delight upon learning from world renowned Forest Ecologist Arthur Partridge that every cubic inch of (healthy) forest soil harbors at least 1,000 different species of microbes. Here’s a stunning review article about bacteria and how … Continue reading
Radiation or Radioactivity – Whats the Difference?
Mainstream news stories almost always confuse the very different terms Radiation (like x-rays) and Radioactive (physical materials; fallout), which are significantly distinct things. Radiation means visible light and all of its invisible cousins: electromagnetic waves including X-rays, gamma rays and … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Environmental Science, Human Health, Pollution, Radioactive Material
Tagged Alpha, Alpha particle, Caesium-137, Carnegie Endowment, Chemistry, DNA, Environment, Fission products, Gamma ray, International Atomic Energy Agency, Ionizing radiation, James Acton, Japan, Marie Curie, microwave, Nuclear physics, physicist, Physics, Radiation, Radioactive decay, Radioactivity, Radiobiology
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