Continued use of an unrestrained, prehistoric, retarded economic model, appears to be anti- human with the consequences that are being created. Revisiting the Nature of Power: local/global/physical/mental - Key to Evolution or Extinction. The choice between Life or Profit would be unnecessary with the application of the required evolutionary energy systems discovered in the 1940's and 1950's (elementary grade school comprehension of an expanded E=MC2 equation)
A Place Where No One Breathes Easy
SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY, Calif., Dec. 20, 2006
(CBS) It takes good lungs to be on a marching band anywhere, but it's a particular challenge in California's San Joaquin Valley, CBS News correspondent John Blackstone reports. "Oh, I would say 20 or 30 kids probably have asthma in the band," says Mike Hipp, Buchanan High's band director. Asthma is common on the football team, too. When the air is particularly bad, coach Mike Vogt takes his players inside to practice. "Football's not a game to be played indoors, but that's a possibility," Vogt says. The air quality has "no doubt" changed the way he coaches. This stretch of farmland and small cities outside Los Angeles has the worst air pollution in the United States. One child in six has asthma — more than three times the national average. "Once in a while, I start to cry because I think I'm going to die," Ryan McVicar says. Both Ryan and his brother Robert have asthma. "It's like something's just punching your throat and you just stop breathing," Ryan explains. "Like you can't get air." Their mother has no doubt the Valley's heavy pollution is to blame. "I know that my kids are having to live in this air and it's only going to get worse if we don't get some help ... full text
SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY, Calif., Dec. 20, 2006
(CBS) It takes good lungs to be on a marching band anywhere, but it's a particular challenge in California's San Joaquin Valley, CBS News correspondent John Blackstone reports. "Oh, I would say 20 or 30 kids probably have asthma in the band," says Mike Hipp, Buchanan High's band director. Asthma is common on the football team, too. When the air is particularly bad, coach Mike Vogt takes his players inside to practice. "Football's not a game to be played indoors, but that's a possibility," Vogt says. The air quality has "no doubt" changed the way he coaches. This stretch of farmland and small cities outside Los Angeles has the worst air pollution in the United States. One child in six has asthma — more than three times the national average. "Once in a while, I start to cry because I think I'm going to die," Ryan McVicar says. Both Ryan and his brother Robert have asthma. "It's like something's just punching your throat and you just stop breathing," Ryan explains. "Like you can't get air." Their mother has no doubt the Valley's heavy pollution is to blame. "I know that my kids are having to live in this air and it's only going to get worse if we don't get some help ... full text
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