Alaska/Kotzebue get #1 ranking (Ambler: asbestos, school, price)

[Arktikos]

Woohoo! We're # 1 again, according to Forbes magazine.

But wait, it's for toxins released into the environment. Oh Well, I guess someone's gotta do it.

(Due to Red Dog mine, with its rich supplies of lead and zinc.)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/priceon.../#18ddc4f04ac1

[RayinAK]

Originally Posted by Blind Cleric

Woohoo! We're # 1 again, according to Forbes magazine.

But wait, it's for toxins released into the environment. Oh Well, I guess someone's gotta do it.

(Due to Red Dog mine, with its rich supplies of lead and zinc.)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/priceon.../#18ddc4f04ac1

Ha! That is nothing compared to the traces of plastic compounds in our bodies, not only in Alaska, but the rest of the US and Europe.

This one is just about according to some news I read recently, 99% of German children of the age 14-18 (something like that), have traces of plastics in their bodies.
Plastic chemical linked to male infertility in majority of teenagers, study suggests*

However, plastics contain not only BPA, but other chemicals that nobody knows how harmful they can be. Just look around your kitchen and notice all the foods that are wrapped in plastic. Even the coffee maker is made of plastics.

And don't forget that a little zinc is good for a healthy prostate

~Sorry. I just thought about that one and could not help myself. I apologize to anybody I may offend.

[Arktikos]

Originally Posted by RayinAK

Ha! That is nothing compared to the traces of plastic compounds in our bodies, not only in Alaska, but the rest of the US and Europe...


And don't forget that a little zinc is good for a healthy prostate

~Sorry. I just thought about that one and could not help myself. I apologize to anybody I may offend.

No offense taken here. I wasn't under the impression zinc was so bad for us either.

For sure we've all got a bunch of hormone disrupting plastics and other industrial toxins coursing through our veins, regardless of our location.

[AK76]

How is released into the environment when it is a product of the environment? Ok, it is a rhetorical question, but I feel compelled to say it by their poor choice of words. I feel displaced, or redistributed is a much more correct term for definition.

[riceme]

Here's a really neat weather map that I swiped from a geomorphology group that I follow. I have it set to particulates mode, particulate matter < 10, but if you click on "Earth" in the lower left corner you can change the settings to all sorts of different things.

In the "air" mode there's a Misery Index, which seems to be incorrectly calibrated. They think that +10*F is miserable when in fact that is a balmy February morning.

https://earth.nullschool.net/#curren...147.128,65.088

[riceme]

I was kind of wondering if it was the zinc itself or the byproducts from mining the zinc that's so bad. I've asked Dr. Google and I am still not really sure. Maybe I need more coffee.

[RayinAK]

Originally Posted by AK76

How is released into the environment when it is a product of the environment? Ok, it is a rhetorical question, but I feel compelled to say it by their poor choice of words. I feel displaced, or redistributed is a much more correct term for definition.

Good points. Everything about the news articles of today is about raising alarms.

Sometime ago Ambler was on the news relating to asbestos fibers in the air. Some of the grounds in Ambler contain asbestos. For years this was mentioned in the asbestos-worker refresher classes in Alaska, but I have no idea what resulted from the EPA studies that were taking place.