Sentences with phrase «poisoned the waters of»

It shouldn't have taken us 20 years to reach this point (and it wouldn't have, if the energy lobby hadn't poisoned the waters of public debate with bogus research), but it's cause for celebration that we've come this far.

We've been drinking poison water all of our lives?»»

As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: «With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas,» or, «They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them.»

«As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: «With all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas,» or, «They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them.»»

Not exact matches

«These kinds of failures rarely happen, but when they do, people die, people lose their jobs, organizations are broken, the water is poisoned,» says Tilcsik.

He's wasting their tax dollars on his luxurious lifestyle, giving handouts to corporate polluters and poisoning our air and water,» said Lukas Ross, who represents Friends of Earth.

The check, which was from the singer's Parkwood Entertainment group, was presented to the United Way of Genesee County and will help Flint residents who are still coping with the city's lead - poisoned water, reported the Detroit News.

(Some people worried that water fluoridation would lead to widespread poisoning; others feared it for a different reason: that it was the vanguard of «socialized medicine» and an assault on individual medical privacy.)

After a series of incidents where coal mines poisoned local water supplies, the rule was written to force mining companies not to begin new projects without first developing a plan to restore affected streams after the coal is hauled out of the earth.

He has indefinitely delayed the issuance of regulations on the use of, among other lethal substances, trichloroethylene, which has been known for more than half a century to turn drinking water into poison.

The feminist position springs not from the premise of our dignity, which applies to men as well as women and would preclude such partisan perversions of semantics, but from responding to the pernicious modem premise that sex is a drink of water with the equally wrongheaded premise that any politically incorrect act by a man is a glass of poison.

As the Danish statistician Bjørn Lomborg has shown in study after study, life expectancy is increasing on a global basis, including in the Third World; water and air in the developed world are cleaner than five hundred years ago; fears of chemicals poisoning the earth are wildly exaggerated; both energy and food are cheaper and more plentiful throughout the world than ever before; «overpopulation» is a myth; and the global picture is, in truth, one of unprecedented human prosperity.

Increased industrial production at the expense of depleted and poisoned air, soil, and water can not count as progress.

But such things are not because of what Jesus has done, but are the lingering effects of the poison which was dumped into our river so long ago, and which will eventually be purged from the water once and for all.

(Second group) 3 Miracles — Carries water on cloth, produces a feast from a single grain, stretches a beam of wood to help his father finish constructing a bed Attempts to teach Jesus, which fail, with Jesus doing the teaching 3 Miracles — Heals James from snake poison, resurrects a child who died of illness, resurrects a man who died in a construction accident

Global warming, the ozone hole, overpopulation, starvation and malnutrition, war, unemployment, the destruction of species and the rain forests, pollution of water and air, pesticide and herbicide poisoning, errors in genetic engineering, erosion of topsoil, overfishing, anarchy and crime, the possibility of a nuclear mishap, chemical warfare or all - out nuclear war: together, or in some cases singly, these dangers threaten to «catch us unexpectedly, like a trap.»

When human beings break their covenant with society by exploiting the labor of the worker and refusing to do anything about the social costs of production — i.e., poisoned air and waters — the covenant of creation is violated.

If you look deeply into ANY religion you will see that it doesn't make any logical sense, like talking burning bushes and virgin birth and dead people coming back to life in three days and parting seas with the wave of a hand or walking on water or poison won't kill you and neither will a copperhead.

Christianity, particularly Catholicism, receives the brunt of Macklemore's disdain: «When I was at church they taught me something else / If you preach hate at the service those words aren't anointed / That holy water that you soak in has been poisoned.»

Similarly, «playing God» pairs with the young gay protagonist of the video sitting in a pew with his mother, the same mother who harasses him until he shuts the door in her face at «paraphrase a book written thirty - five - hundred years ago,» and who aggressively makes the sign of the cross (to the lyric «preach hate») before storming out («holy water... poisoned») when her son brings his soon - to - be spouse home for dinner.

So long as holy water means poison and Humanae Vitae is linked to burning crosses, our arguments will be received as abstract and inhumane moralism rather than the civilization of love they express in their own, faltering way.

Meanwhile, there is a steady deterioration of our environment, poisoning the land, the waters, the plants, the animals and, indeed, our own bodies.

None of us are at risk of arsenic poisoning from our drinking water.

It's so much easier than making standard cheesecake, what with the water bath, precise baking times, and possibility of giving your guests food poisoning.

My life before Bhumi was in International Public Health and it was here that I saw first hand the disastrous health and environmental impacts of traditional cotton growing with farmer suicides, child labour, pesticide poisoning, birth defects, harmful dyes and toxic water ways.

From your description, I'd say that the manure's too hot (not aged enough) or the water you are using is poisoning some of the plants.

This is not the first time Icelandic Glacial and Cher have teamed up to be first responders to a national crisis; the two made headlines in January of 2016 for sending water to the people of Flint, Michigan after the poisoning of local water.

The state gives water to Nestle for pennies on the dollar, against almost everyone's wishes, and they'll get to turn around and sell it to the poor people of Flint at obscene profits, it still poisons them (recent tests show that bottled water is often contaminated with plastic particulates from the bottling process) and where all those plastic bottles end up is someone else's problem.

Coal mining produces green house gases, it ruins entire ecosystems through the poisoning of water tables and the destruction of forests and sometimes entire mountaintops, it pollutes with heavy metals, the list goes on and on.

In eight solo RAAMs he overcame a range of bizarre misfortunes, including salmonella poisoning that he says he developed when one of his crewmen, a reptile breeder, brought along a pregnant iguana and kept it in the cooler with Gerry's water bottles.

«Lead poisoning is one of those silent epidemics,» says Dr. Jeffrey Griffiths, professor of public health at Tufts University in Boston, who has advised the EPA on water quality for some time.

In the unlikely event that your child swallows a large amount of play dough that contains salt, have them drink plenty of water and call poison control to be safe.

In March 2000, after two Lawndale Community Academy 4th graders vomited their lunch of turkey sandwiches and bananas, an inspector visited the kitchen and found dead water bugs, improperly exposed insect poison, rusted racks in the walk - in cooler, dirty floors, and food held at an unsafe temperature on the serving line.

Child Proof the House (Set the temperature of your hot water heater to 120 degrees F, use covers on electrical outlets and latches on cabinets, keep household cleaners, chemicals and medicines completely out of reach and always store them in their original container and know the Poison Control Center number (1-800-222-1222), do not carry hot liquids or food near your child and do not allow your child near stoves, heaters or other hot appliances (especially curling irons), and when cooking, use the back burners and turn pot handles inward, to prevent drowning, never leave your child alone near any container of water, keep a list of emergency numbers near the phone, and lock rooms that are not child proof).

Just like the horn of a unicorn is thought to turn poisoned water into that which can be tasted, doulas are there to help reframe parts of loss birth into a new and more affirmative experience for everyone.

√ Use plug covers on electrical outlets; wrap up the slack of electrical cords and hide behind furniture √ Tie and place blind cords out of baby's reach, or use cordless window coverings; keep cribs, furniture and toys away from windows and window cords √ Secure all furniture so it will not topple on your child √ Install hardware mounted gates (which are more secure than pressure mounted) at the top and bottom of stairs √ Put latches on doors to keep kids out of certain rooms √ Lock away medicines, cleaning products and poisons, and ensure houseplants are out of reach √ Turn water heater down to 49 °C (120 °F), and test baby's bath water with elbow or wrist to ensure it's warm, not hot √ Don't allow smoking — it's harmful to your infant and butts are poisonous

The greatest risk of nitrate poisoning (methemoglobinemia) occurs in infants fed well water contaminated with nitrates.

Just get the poisons out of our water, foods and personal care items.

Removing choking hazards throughout the home and especially keeping water hazards and poisons (cleaning products, cosmetics) where your child can't reach them can prevent the number one causes of death before the age of 5!

The NYC Department of Education claims there has never been a case of a lead poisoning from city school water — but school - age kids are rarely tested, critics charge.

Don't sell us out and create a ghost state full of poisoned water where the only place you can live is with in the areas served by the NYC and Syracuse resevoirs

«The undisclosed settlement terms between the Village of Hoosick Falls and Saint - Gobain and Honeywell announced last week make it more imperative than ever that the Senate release information about the role these companies played in poisoning the water for over 10,000 New Yorkers,» he said.

Much attention has been paid to lead in water, but lead paint has been and remains a major cause of lead poisoning in children.

He spoke darkly of the early endorsements of Levine by elected officials and unions that had «poisoned the waters» against him.

At the first of three legislative hearings on Hoosick Falls and water quality issues on Tuesday, state health commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker pointed to the EPA dozens of times as the reason residents were allowed to drink poisoned water without public warning.

Ever since the tragedy in Flint, Michigan, where lead in drinking water poisoned hundreds of children, attention has focused on the nation's lead regulations.

The government has expressed its readiness to deal with the illegal activity that has resulted in the loss of farmlands and poisoning of some of the country's major water bodies.

On Nov. 16, Investigative Post reporter Dan Telvock will discuss his award - winning coverage of lead poisoning in Buffalo and moderate a panel discussion with three experts, including Marc Edwards, who helped expose the water crisis in Flint, Mi.

«Retrograde actions by the Trump administration — backtracking on COP 21, deregulating Fossil Fuels, rolling back environmental protections — will lead to many Superstorms like Sandy, more contaminated water like Flint and Hoosick Falls, worsening Asthma and respiratory problems, further poisoning the lungs of our Bronx babies,» said Judy Sheridan - Gonzalez, the president of the New York State Nurses Associations.

While I understand the desire to switch to a domestic energy source and the financial enticement of that, high - pressured hydraulic fracturing, which is a relatively new form of fracturing within the decade, has been linked to a 1000 cases of groundwater contamination, including flammable tap water in Colorado, methane explosions in West Virginia, and poisoned, flammable water in Pennsylvania.