POL250Y5 Lecture Notes - Perfluorooctanoic Acid, Chronic Kidney Disease, Phthalate
Document Summary
53% of women voted: 55% of them voted for the president. 10% of voters were hispanic: 71% of them voted for president (67% in 2008) Exit poll top issues: economy, budget, foreign policy and health care. Pollution is now so pervasive that it"s become a marinade in which we all bathe everyday (3) We have all become guinea pigs in a vast and uncontrolled experiment (4) They wanted an explanation of cause and effect that, in many cases, we were unable to provide because the studies hasn"t yet been done (5) We are eating, drinking and soaking in tens of thousands of potentially toxic substances, most of which we know little about. Pollution is worse in three ways: global (grasshopper effect) [taken in air and water and moves, chronic and long-term effects [asthma and air pollution] Probably up and to a point.
