Consumption - The global killer blighting the planet

Janet Thornton explains the importance of keeping our heads at a time when all those with power appear to be hell-bent on keeping us under. The need to wean ourselves off our drug-fed reality in order to save our sanity and our home is paramount. The results of a study released earlier this year showed high levels of pharmaceuticals in the aquatic organisms in Lake Mead, several miles downstream from a Las Vegas water treatment plant. The two most prominent drugs found in the tissues of fish to phytoplankton were anti-depressants and antibiotics. The study found two sets of consequences of the presence of these drugs. First, the reproductive systems of the organisms analysed were deformed to the extent that reproduction of these organisms is dramatically impaired. This means these organisms will disappear if nothing is done to get rid of the chemicals. And these results are being duplicated in other parts of the planet. In addition, the presence of these drugs in the food chain means we are eating them. And second, Lake Mead is a source of drinking water for parts of California and Nevada and Arizona. Guess what? The drinking water has traces of these drugs in it. So not only are these drugs destroying aquatic organisms, we are ingesting them through the food chain and our drinking water. Our mindless consumption of pharmaceutical drugs is directly causing the degradation of the ecosystem that sustains us. The question is, what will those drugs do to our reproductive systems, and how many more super bugs will develop that are resistant to antibiotics because of their over-use?

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