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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...requires greatly enlarged investments in energy production and conservation, transport, water conservation and development, pollution control. When economists, politicians and businessmen come to understand that these will be our leading growth sectors, and we act to stimulate private and, where necessary, public investment in these directions, unemployment should be low, our growth rate high...
...disposal of chemicals 16 years ago; Canadian environmental protection officials are currently investigating the construction industry's use of contaminated landfill from an abandoned uranium mine in Quebec, and have unveiled radioactive highways and beaches and backyard gardens. Scientists have discovered that long-term exposure to federally-rated "safe" low-level radiation has killed people living and working near nuclear power plants. These researchers have seen their money withdrawn and their findings have gone unpublished...
...countless laboratory experiments, dioxin has killed animals when applied in dosages as low as five parts per trillion. Scientists estimate that one medicine dropper of dioxin could kill 1200 people (assuming, as scientists routinely do, that scientists are more sensitive than laboratory animals...
...bear out claims that dioxin is harmful to human beings. A scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Dr. James Allen, conducted a series of tests on rhesus monkeys, the animal most like humans in chemical sensitivity. He found that dioxin administered over a period of months in dosages as low as 550 parts per trillion, caused cancer and eventual death. Allen fed dioxin to monkeys in amounts comparable to those consumed by people eating contaminated fish, vegetables or wildlife. After six months, Allen bred the monkeys; five of the eight conceived, and four aborted in the second month or pregnancy...
These and other scientists findings indicate that dioxin may accumilate in the body. Even if a person is exposed to a very low dosage of dioxin, repeated exposures have the same effect as one massive dose. Some scientists also speculate that dioxin may build up in the body fat producing toxic effects when the fat is broken down by weight loss. Accumulation would explain the characteristic symptoms of dioxin that occur years after a veteran served in a sprayed area...