Health and chemistry

1 General

• Urban Environmental Health - Map My Environment

2 PFAS

• 3M offers $10.3B settlement over PFAS contamination in water systems — now, how do you destroy a ‘forever chemical’?

3 Lead

• Lead: makes you into a criminal:

  • Kevin Drum, Lead: America’s Real Criminal Element
  • Lead->crime

• VegeSafe monitoring soil pollution (they will test yours)

4 Air pollution

• I thought living under a flight path was OK in pollution terms. Turns out I may have been too sanguine.

  • Mason Inman argues Plane Exhaust Kills More People Than Plane Crashes
  • Aviation shutdown shows we can clean up our air

See also air pollution.

The air in Sydney, according to Wendy Bacon, cannot be relied upon to be safe or even competently monitored.

5 Pollution and obesity

Is the obesity epidemic pollution? That is the chemical hunger hypothesis, launched by some rather lengthy and controversial internet-famous essays.

6 References