Only then can you ask the question: If most people get thier health and well - being as a result of burning fossil fuels what will restricting
those fuels do to the health and well - being of people?
Renewables, meanwhile, do receive support in the form of direct subsidies, but — in advanced economies alone — can these really be compared to the costly harm fossil
fuels do to our health and the planet — now put into figures in the IMF report — plus the cost of importing fuels in the first place?
Not exact matches
The price we pay for fossil
fuels does not include the long - term costs
to the environment and
to human
health.
The much - anticipated judgment by Capitol Hill's official scorekeeper
did not back up the president's promise of providing
health care for everyone and was likely
to fuel moderate Republicans» concerns.
Nuclear
fuel processing, the work that would have been
done at the proposed Jiangmen project, poses little risk
to public
health, according
to industry experts and the industry lobby group, the World Nuclear Association.
«The works also highlights how damaging brain injury can be — and
fuels the public
health debate about what we can
do to protect ourselves against head injuries.»
Health improvement (allowing
to post - pone / escape the diseases and thus live, healthier / disease - free longer, but not above human MLSP of around 122 years; thus these therapies
do not affect epigenetic aging whatsoever, they are degenerative aging problems not regular healthy aging problem (except OncoSENS - only when you Already Have Cancer - which cancer increases epigenetic aging, but cancer removal thus
does not change anything / makes no difference about what happens in the other cells / about what happens in the normal epigenetic «aging» course in Normal non-cancerous healthy cells) Although there is not such thing as «healthy aging» all aging in «unhealthy» (as seen from elders who are «healthy enough» who show much damage), it's just «tolerable / liveable» enough (in terms of damage accumulating) that it
does not affect their quality of life (enough yet), that is «healthy aging»: ApoptoSENS - Clearing Senescent Cells (this will have great impact
to reduce diseases, the largest one, since it's all inflammation
fueled by the inflammation secretory phenotype (SASP) of these senescent cells) AmyloSENS - Dissolving the Plaques (this will allow humans
to evade Alzheimer's, Parkinsons and general brain degenerescence, allowing quite a boost; making people much more easily reach the big 100 - since the brain is causal
to how long we live; keeping brain amyloid - free and keeping our memories / neuron sharp / means longer LongTerm Potentiation - means longer brain function means longer heavy brain mass (gray matter / white matter retention seen in «sharp - witted» Centenarians who show are younger brain for their age), and both are correlated
to MLSP).
Diet sodas can be no more than 25 percent of the items offered, the directive says.There should be «ample choices» of water, «soy milk, rice milk and other similar dairy or non dairy milk,» says the directive, which also covers fat and sugar content in vending machine snacks.It's all part of Newsom's effort
to combat obesity and improve San Franciscans»
health, similar
to a national effort being championed by first lady Michelle Obama.The mayor's administration points
to studies linking soda
to obesity, including a UCLA one released last year that found adults who drink at least one soft drink a day are 27 percent more likely
to be obese than those who don't, and that soda consumption is
fueling the state's $ 41 billion annual obesity problem.
Sometimes it can be difficult
to know if your intake of protein is optimal, but the body always has its ways of telling you that you're not getting enough protein
to fuel your muscles and maintain your overall
health and well - being, and all you have
to do is listen
to its messages.
You can't expect
to fuel your body and achieve optimal
health by eating food, laced with toxic chemicals, that your body doesn't recognize.
I started referring
to my concoction as «golden
fuel,» because it started
to really feel like the catalyst that
fueled my ability
to do all the other things I needed
to do to get my
health back (full disclosure: I loved my blend so much I ended up starting a company
to share it with other people).
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● Good fats play a number of roles in our
health but an important one is slowing blood sugar spikes
to help us better regulate energy and mood ● Fat is a longer burning source of
fuel for the body so you don't need
to think about food as much when healthy fats are the primary source of
fuel.
Now we equate the word «diet» with a list of
do's and don'ts in order
to achieve weight loss,
health or an optimal,
fuel - efficient, fat - burning state for our bodies.
If you have decided
to decrease your carb consumption in order
to lose weight or for other
health reasons, don't forget
to replenish your body's natural
fuel by increasing your fat intake.
Not only
do fats play a key role in maintaining your Yorkie's skin and coat
health, but they also help
to fuel his fast metabolism as well.
And yes, on most awards British Airways still passes along «
fuel surcharges» which have nothing
to do with
fuel and are therefore better known by their technical name «Blended Use Landing Levies for Safety,
Health & Information Technologies.»
The thing though with these low - sulfur
fuels, the study also found, is that while they
do reduce total particle emissions, the particles that
do remain tend
to remain in the air longer... Which is where they post a threat
to human
health and affect climate.
There are many things that «average citizens» can
do to reduce our demand for fossil
fuels — most of which will also save us money and improve our
health and quality of life.
«Climate change is severely impacting the
health of our planet and all of its inhabitants, and we must transition
to a clean energy economy that
does not rely on fossil
fuels, the main driver of this global problem.»
If they
do, rather than calling for the unrealistic «end of the fossil
fuel era,» they'd call on the «climate aid»
to be spent on «improved public
health, education and economic development,» as recommended by noted economist Bjorn Lomborg.
I would define myself as favouring camp 3 and wholeheartedly support the move off fossil
fuels, but I
do not favour alarm - ism as in camp 4 (although can sympathise with all other camps) except views based on profit at the endangerment
to humans and co species
health, safety and well being.
«Just as it doesn't make sense for organisations whose purpose is
to safeguard
health to profit from the tobacco industry,
health institutions can no longer justify investing in fossil
fuel companies but need
to start investing in clean energy solutions.»
By contrast, despite spending over $ 2 trillion in 5 decades, aid programs have much less
to show in terms of poverty reduction — or its ancillary benefits, e.g., reductions in hunger, disease, better
health care and education, and greater adaptive capacity
to deal with climate change and natural disasters — than
does fossil
fuel - powered economic development.
No matter what assumptions we enter, it is clear that we are far better off
to get nuclear at least cost — as long as it will give us better total
health effects than we have now., which clearly replacement of fossil
fuels with nuclear will
do.
But these direct cost related factors don't even begin
to count in the terrible external costs of fossil
fuels ranging from ramping damages due
to climate change and direct
health impacts by adding toxic particles
to the air and water.
Public officials responsible for decisions made by
Health Canada continue
to espouse the now worn phrase: «This source of energy is viewed as a viable and environmentally friendly alternative
to fossil
fuels,» but it is now recognized that wind power always requires back up, including fossil
fuels, and lots of it, and it
does nothing at all
to abate climate change or CO ₂ levels.
If you don't care
to believe what the fossil
fuel and nuclear industries are
doing to our land, air, water, human
health, AND how much they're stealing in subsidies from taxpayers like me and (presumably) you every year, then you've lost the ability
to think for yourself.
We can certainly agree that solar is in general * cleaner * than fossil
fuels and would likely have some associated
health benefits, but I don't feel it would be intellectually honest
to include arguable cause / effect healthcare costs in the direct cost of energy units for the average American consumer as the statistical chance they personally will incur medical expenses directly related
to their energy bill are exceedingly low.
We have an immediate problem
to solve for the welfare and
health of not only our country, but the world: How
do we minimize the usage of fossil
fuels for automobiles!
President Trump's newly - released budget
does just the opposite, dishing out giveaways
to the fossil
fuel industry and gutting protections for our
health.
the Michigan Tech scientists focussed only on deaths from air pollution linked
to coal - burning power stations: they
did not make a calculation about the economic costs of chronic illness linked
to polluted air, nor
did they estimate the
health costs that might be linked
to the entire coal industry, nor include the estimates of deaths that might be attributed
to climate change as a consequence of prodigal fossil
fuel combustion.
Importantly, the Michigan Tech scientists focussed only on deaths from air pollution linked
to coal - burning power stations: they
did not make a calculation about the economic costs of chronic illness linked
to polluted air, nor
did they estimate the
health costs that might be linked
to the entire coal industry, nor include the estimates of deaths that might be attributed
to climate change as a consequence of prodigal fossil
fuel combustion.
What I conclude: Being barbecued, drowned, or discomfited in any way as a side effect of burning fossil
fuels and injecting CO2 into the atmosphere
does not appear anywhere on the list of things that are likely
to threaten my
health, happiness, and all around well being.
The show trial was a chance for the Kochtopus, fossil
fuel interests, and global warming skeptics (including Senator James Inhofe (R - OK) who announced he is releasing a denialist book)
to cry foul that industry is being victimized and that global warming is not a threat, and
does not pose any risks
to the
health and well - being of Americans, and the planet.
Natural gas has been the primary
fuel of choice in recent years, but shifting
to an electricity system dependent on coal and natural gas
does not alleviate the myriad risks —
to the environment, economy, or public
health — posed by coal alone.
What it really
does is streamline access
to oil, gas, and coal under public lands and federally - controlled ocean waters for the fossil
fuel industry — and condemns Americans
to more spills, climate - polluting emissions, and
health problems.
Because slowly increasing temperatures don't seem alarming, the «availability entrepreneurs» push extreme weather events and public
health impacts as being caused by human - caused climate change, more of which is in store if we don't quickly act
to cool the planet by reducing fossil
fuel emissions.
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Health:
Fueling Baby: What
to Feed Baby, and When»
The President, as he often
does — and
to his credit — also reframed the debate between jobs creation and protecting the environment, saying that the jobs of the 21st century will be
fueled by green energy: «We've rejected the notion that we have
to chose between creating jobs and a
health environment.»
I can limit flood damage and improve
health very simply: But I need lower cost energy (you don't want that), lower cost steel and transportation (you are working very hard
to make both more expensive), more proper and safe rules and less excessive regulation (you want more regulation and more fees and more interferences from very propagandized zealots against work), lower costs for electricity, water and
fuel (you seek more taxes and rules on all) no government corruption (The carbon taxes you want go ONLY
to the corrupt third world dictators and NGO profit - seekers who are selling their ENRON - inspired carbon credits, none
do anything for the people of each country forced into squalor and death.)
Knowing all we
do about the damage wrought by burning fossil
fuels — both
to our immediate
health and
to the long - term viability of our habitat — it would seem an act of obscene, destructive decadence.
For example, in the US, each time the Clean Air Act has been amended since 1972, fossil -
fuel power companies and their associated think - tanks screamed bloody murder that sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emission reductions would essentially destroy the economy (all but ignoring the obvious
health and environmental benefits that
did come
to fruition).
While there seems very little prospect of research finding any causal link between wind turbines and sickness, many people have been primed
to believe that such a link
does exist — due
to extensive coverage in the popular media and the work of several people who either honestly believe that such
health effects exist, or find alleged
health effects
to be a way of discrediting sustainable energy and thus supporting the fossil
fuel industry.
Not only
does it help
to reduce your carbon footprint and save yourself hefty public transport /
fuel costs; the
health benefits are endless.
Using the experience of the Fitzroy Valley communities, the Report examines the ways in which these communities have taken control of spiralling alcohol -
fuelled social and
health problems, including Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders,
to offer governments around the nation a tried and effective model
to reform the way they
do business.