I received this by e-mail yesterday.
The connections made between cancer and our modern addictions, in particular oil, are very disturbing.
Please read on, and pursue the links at the bottom. One is a very
interesting web page by the doctor behind the article posted below.
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Cancer: The Price of Progress
Posted by: joan.Russow on http://PEJ.org Wednesday, June 29, 2005 – 10:47 PM
PEJ News – F.H. Knelman, Ph.D.: The above is the title of a book I began
writing some fifty years ago. My thesis was that the majority of cancers
had environmental causes. These were mostly exposure to carcinogens in the
workplace and in the general environment, the latter by far the waste
products of industrial operations. According to the World Health
Organization, some 80% of all cancer is environmentally-induced and is
therefore preventable.
CANCER: THE PRICE OF PROGRESS
F.H. Knelman, Ph.D.
The progressive meaning of Progress is a multidimensional mix of social and
personal development, coupled to peace on Earth and peace with Earth. The
current meaning is unidimensional economic growth blind to all other
considerations. Among these other considerations is a high correlation with
cancer. The medical-pharmaceutical-chemical establishment reduces all the
human environmental and social dimensions to the imperative of the bottom
line. They therefore focus on cure rather than prevention. Cancer, after
all, is a growth industry. Economic growth is the ultimate measure of
progress. During the second half of the twentieth century some 75,000 new
chemical compounds have been introduced to the living environment, among
them several potent carcinogens.
Governments and even regulatory organizations have accommodated progress as
equated with economic growth, with nothing less than worship of the GNP.
And the resource which logically dominates the compulsion to grow is oil.
The automotive, chemical and pharmaceutical industries are all
oil-dependent. The U.S. economy, more than any other, runs on oil. Oil has
become the feed stock of progress. And of all the countries in the world,
the U.S. is the most dependent on oil. The geopolitical consequence is the
war in Iraq, the accommodation of Saudi Arabia and the series of political
moves to gain control of the oil and gas-rich Caspian Sea region and the
former Eastern Republics of the Soviet Union. The relationship with Canada
and, of course, Venezuela, are also determined to a large degree by the
need to access their oil. Alberta is the focus point of interest,
particularly with the huge potential reserves of the tar sands. The U.S.
woos Alberta and Alberta is highly responsive. They share the neoCon
political agenda. The pressure will only increase if the war in Iraq bogs
down and the oil supply system is interrupted by pipeline attacks.
The terrible cost of this extreme use of and dependence on oil is not only
social and military but oil is also the basis of a huge chemical and
pharmaceutical complex. We have now come full circle. Hundreds of
byproducts from these industries are carcinogenic or suspected to be
carcinogens. Petrochemicals include pharmaceuticals, fertilizers, fuels,
plastics, insecticides and synthetics of all kinds, as well as the
automobile industry. Combined, they are a source of a multiplicity of
cancers. At the same time, oil is the major source of economic growth,
narrowly defined as progress. The circle is completed, cancer is the price
of progress. But even beyond this, environmental degradation generally and
its major threat, global warming, are also the price of progress. The
United States is the world leader in economic growth and industrial
degradation. To defend their self-appointed category of Number One, they
have invoked Pax Americana, a program to rule the world.
There are many excellent books on cancer. In terms of cost and value, I
would recommend “The Cancer Conspiracy” by John Moelaert, a superior
booklet on the subject. It can be ordered directly by email at:
http://members.shaw.ca/cancerconspiracy , for $20.00, including postage and
handling for mailing in Canada. For other countries same web site and click
the Order link. For all interested parties, I would strongly recommend you
order it.
[May also be downloaded on line at: http://cancertruth.org/images/The%20Cancer%20Conspiracy.pdf]
Al Rycroft, Senior Editor
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