You could be onto something. I have been looking at the impacts of gas house emissions from the forest industry, and was surprised when I realized that they are not counted and are largely ignored by the province. Also, the pulp mills are huge sources of both air and water pollution, especially if they are producing bleached pulp. Some studies estimate that the industry is responsible for 50% of all the waste dumped into the nation’s waters & is a common air contaminant. Many people burn wood for heating and in their fireplaces which produces high levels of pollutants. Untreated effluents have a very toxic effect on the environment and any living organisms. I have seen where a number of companies have been fined for failure to treat the effluents properly.
There's a theory that the crime rates of the 70s and 80s were caused by lead poisoning from lead paint, and that once lead paint was phased out, that's why crime rates have dropped ever since.
Sick Kids Are Just the Beginning of America’s Lead Crisis
I was so close to replying to that overly dramatic and hyperbolic reply to you, but I knew that someone else would do it much more eloquently than I could or would. I admire how amazingly intelligent yours was! I love your posts, including this one! Thank you
Thank you! You are so kind. (Sorry to get all personal and weird) I just feel really passionately about this topic, because I've LIVED it. I'm STILL living it. This whole violence, dysfunction, untreated mental illness, isolation, addiction, homeless family members, lack of socioeconomic mobility, not knowing how to act properly around the general population, family members threatening to kill each other, police and social workers coming over on the holidays...yeah I've been through allllll of that. When I was 12 I pulled a knife on police officers that were arresting my mom. They almost shot me. The next day I went to my school's Halloween dance and pretended everything was totally normal and nobody would have guessed any of that had happened. And when my mom got out of central booking, she yelled at me, not for almost getting shot, but for going to the Halloween dance instead of "supporting her in her time of need." And I actually felt guilty about it. Like, that was my normal life.
For me, the path to try to become a normal person, like without weird anger issues and dysfunctional behaviors and whatever, has been like clawing up a sheer cliff face with my bare hands. Thanks to some good luck, I had some positive influences in my life that helped. And thanks to even better luck, I had the ability to look at myself and my family and be like "yeah, this isn't acceptable, I have to do better than this." But I'm still not there yet.
However getting back to this case...I know it's very rare for people to have no potential to be fixed from that kind of stuff. Especially at a young age, this can be turned around, maybe not restored to 100% functionality, but at least stopped from the worst consequences like them turning to violence. In fact, we know how to turn it around...we're just not doing it. And I'm so tired of seeing pointless deaths happen, over and over again, because we aren't putting in an effort as a society to turn this kind of stuff around, because it's "too expensive" or goes against our individualistic culture or whatever. Those aren't excuses, when peoples' lives are at stake.
Anyway sorry to get all personal and weird and this will probably get deleted but like...I know enough about this stuff to see the patterns.
