Read This First 170423, Heuristics 170928, Glossary A-H, Mini Lessons 170827
1. Water Conflict, 2. Public Health ≠ Medicine, 3. Gate’s Reading List , 4. Detection, 5. Guinea Worm, 6. Poverty, 7. Airy Water, 8. Black Death Public Health. <ADDED >1. FEMA Capabilities, >2. Global Health Funding, >3. Hunt Funding, >4. Right to Try Try Try, >5. TexVax, >6. Conflict Leverage, >7. Chem/ Bio Attack, >8. Lippcott, >9. Hospital Attack, >10. Holism, >11. Climate Security.
Other Topics: BioTrumpism, BioPolitics, Vaccine, Biosphere, Disaster, Humor, Climate Change, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Communication, India, Drought, Flood, California, Opinion Leaders, Reflex Behavior, Psychological Distance, Stigmatizing, Othering, History, Remote Risk, Borders ≠ BioSecurity, Puerto Rico, Lassa Fever, Global Health, Drugs, Moral Panic, CDC, Maps, Opioids, Leadership.
-1. Water Shortages Could Affect 5bn People by 2050, due to climate change, increased demand and polluted supplies, according to a UN report on the state of the world’s water. We all know that water scarcity can lead to civil unrest, mass migration and even to conflict within and between countries. Ensuring the sustainable use of the planet’s resources (like food -7↓) is vital for ensuring long term peace and prosperity. Though there is past history of conflict and migration from drought and floods, that does not mean that it’s certain to happen again. However avoiding war is probably a good motivator to do something about water issues. This must be confusing to climate change deniers. Climate change contributing to both too much water and too little water. This could be taken as clear proof that climate scientists are lying. The Perennial Problem of Floods and Droughts in India, Health Effects of Drought: A Systematic Review of the Evidence, Climate Change, Zoonoses and India, Climate Change and Infectious Diseases of Animals, Climate Change Impacts in Drought and Flood Affected, -4↓. Before and after Photos Show California Storm's Insane Impact on Water Levels [Photo, Photo]. | The combination of flood and drought add to the problem of megafires Fires, Floods, Extreme Heat: California’s Year of Epic Disasters. Humans – having the proclivity of living and build on flood plains, near natural areas or picturesque views, while keeping their anthromes green and fire free (meaning more fuel load), with high population and industry /agriculture densities that consume and pollute water – contribute to the severity of fire into megafires that sterilize areas. Wildfire Intensity Impacts Water Quality and its Treatment in Forested Watersheds <ADDED171224-171015-3>7. Tens of Thousands to Evacuate as California Storm Looms. America Has a Water Crisis No One Is Talking about.
-1.1. So Close, Yet So Far: Making Climate Impacts Feel Nearby May Not Inspire Action. An expert says it is possible to make faraway climate impacts feel closer. But that doesn't automatically inspire the American public to express greater support for policies that address it. Although scientists warn that urgent action is needed to stop climate change, public engagement continues to lag. Many social scientists say people are hesitant to act on climate change because, especially in Western industrialized countries like the U.S., it feels like such a distant threat. [Cartoon]. Psychological Distance, Bridging Psychological Distance, Construal Level Theory of Psychological Distance. [Photo]. The Process of Othering. | Social Media Campaign to Stop Stigmatization of People from Western Africa. | Study of Climate Change Could Lead to Understanding Future of Infectious Disease. Historians to Climate Researchers: Let's Talk. Learning how past societies handled environmental stresses can help modern policymakers confront global climate change. ¶ #Linguistics Climate Change Can Also Transform Language. As our world warms, warps and melts, metaphors of the past take on new meaning. Language, Thought, Culture: A Reassessment, [Cartoon, Cartoon].
-2. Why Isn’t Learning about Public Health a Larger Part of Becoming a Doctor. Clinical medicine can treat patients when they are sick, but public health provides an opportunity to prevent disease and poor health. But too often, medical students don’t get to learn about public health, or how to use it when they become doctors. That means many of today’s students aren’t learning about health care in a broader context. Here's the Disturbing Psychology of How Doctors Get Through Their Day. [Cartoon, Cartoon, Cartoon, Cartoon].
-3. Melinda Gates Recommends 3 Books That Changed the Way She Thinks about the World. More likely she already had a worldview that made these books sound interesting to her, and these would reinforce that. These #Books are also interesting reads for parademic. 1) Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind [Cover] marries biology and history in a sweeping overview of how we as a species arrived at the present. Tracks the revolutions that compelled us forward and puts our comparatively brief time on the planet into perspective. 2) Changes perspective on Africa and, to some extent, the world is Cry, the Beloved Country [Cover]. Set in 1940s South Africa with the racial and social divides that gave way to Apartheid. The Gates Foundation works to address global issues of education, poverty, and health care, with an office in South Africa dedicated to HIV and TB research. 3) Enlightenment Now [Cover, Cartoon, Cartoon] is a passionate defense of enlightenment values of “reason, science, and humanism” in a society that falls back on destructive tendencies like “tribalism, authoritarianism, demonization, and magical thinking” in times of crisis. Melinda Gates on Diversity in Tech, Ending Malaria, and the Problems Money Can’t Solve. | The Gate’s and their foundation are opinion leaders, Johns Hopkins University Honors Bill and Melinda Gates with First Global Health Leadership Award, doing work in the overlap of health, environment, society, and targets of conspiracy theory, Controversial Vaccine Studies: Why Is Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation under Fire from Critics in India, which means they are opinion leaders of kneejerk backfire conspiracy [Meme]. <ADDED 180304-180121-8>5. LeadershipSearch Is Not About Position or Title,180301-3*.
-3.1. Another unintended consequence, or in parademic terms unconsidered consequence, that is not thinking about could happen by not considering human factors when introducing a new technology or ideology, or having an automatic reaction without engaging critical thinking [Cartoon]. Non-Antibiotic Drugs Promote Antibiotic Resistance. The widespread use of antibiotics encourages the pathogens they are directed against to become inured to their effects. That is well known. But antibiotics cause damage to non target species as well, so these, too, tend to evolve immunity. Since most antibiotics are administered by mouth, the many bacteria that live peacefully in the human gut are particularly susceptible to such evolutionary pressures. | This is worrisome. Drug resistant infections could become responsible for 10m deaths a year by 2050, up from 700,000 today. Some strains which were resistant to antibiotics nevertheless succumbed to one or more of the non antibiotic drugs thrown at them.
-4. When Towns Lose Their Newspapers, Disease Detectives Are Left Flying Blind. She saw a map that terrified her. The map recorded the number of local newspapers in each county across the United States. Large swaths were shaded light pink, denoting a county that had no local newspaper at all. As a scientist, who specializes in epidemiological mathematical modeling, the splotches of light pink represented a disaster for infectious disease surveillance. Epidemiologists rely on all kinds of data to detect the spread of disease, including reports from local and state agencies and social media. But local newspapers are critical to identifying outbreaks and forecasting their trajectories. HealthMap information is used by public health authorities and researchers around the world who are studying things like the changing geographic distribution of diseases (Zika*), and the impact of climate change on disease patterns -1↑. Local media is the bedrock of internet surveillance, scouring the web looking for early signs of something taking place in a community. For the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic local reporting helped to bring an emerging disease threat to global attention. The CDC was the first agency to detect that two young children in California had been infected with a flu strain circulated in pigs. As officials were trying to figure out if the cases were blips or part of something bigger, however, disease detectives began crawling through recent media reports to determine whether unusual numbers of people with flu like illness in Mexico had also been sickened by the new virus.It turned out they had been. The new virus was spreading [Poster, Poster, Poster, Tweet, Map]. If we see a reduction in local reporting, you’re not going to have that early signaling of something in a community. [Map, darker color = more local papers]. How Fast Can an Outbreak Be Detected. Mapping the Flu. Minnesota Says There's an App for That. ¶ Trump Vows Tougher Borders to Fight Opioid Epidemic, remindful of moral panics Drugs, Moral Panics and the Dispositive, Moral Panic: the War on Drugs (2014), Drugs Laws Driven by Moral Panic (2007) . It is not uncommon for moral panics to become real life Greek Tragedy: Mar 22, 1984, Teachers are indicted at the McMartin Preschool, 180318-5.1, 170827-6. | Trump Opioid Plan Includes Death Penalty for Traffickers, Trump Will Propose Executing Drug Dealers. But Only in Some AlreadyLegal Cases, Trump Can Execute Drug Dealers Already. Why Trump’s Opioid Plan Falls Short. Blame and Addiction.
-*. Intentions to Use a Novel Zika Vaccine: The Effects of Misbeliefs about the MMR Vaccine and Perceptions about Zika. The Mumps Are Back. Do Our Kids Need Booster Shots, Mumps Resurgence Likely Due to Waning Vaccine Derived Immunity. -6.1↓.
-5. South Sudan Stops Spread of Guinea Worm Disease. It has gone 15 months without a single reported case of Guinea worm disease, suggesting a major victory for global health officials trying to eliminate the debilitating affliction. The Carter Center said only 30 cases were reported last year in isolated areas of Ethiopia and Chad. That’s a real achievement for efforts to eradicate a disease that only 30 years ago affected 3.5 million people a year in 21 countries across Africa and Asia. <ADDED 171015-160612-2>11. Amazing News about the Awful Guinea Worm.
-6. Vaccinating Against Poverty. Developing countries could reduce poverty by targeting higher vaccination rates in poorer and more marginalized communities. But does reducing poverty help the country economically or create new problems, and does vaccination and reducing poverty divert from other needs of the country and the impoverished. Does the power structure of the country want to reduce poverty, or is it to its advantage to keep people impoverished. -4↑, -180304-3↓.
-6.1‡↕. VCP News Archive: (Not in VCP). • France: More than 1,000 Cases of Measles and 64 Affected Departments, (Measles on Rise in France amid Distrust of Vaccines). • Ukraine: Bans Sale and Use of Russian Measles Vaccine. With -180225-4↓ it is credible that contaminated or fake medicine could be part of the ongoing Ukraine-Russia conflict (The Nerve Agent Poisoning in England Was a Message to the Rest of the World, Ukraine's Krasnohorivka under Attack: Hospital, University Block, Houses Damaged 2017, Ukraine Conflict: Deadly Shell Hits Donetsk Hospital 2015, Ukraine: Insurgents Disrupt Medical Services 2014). • UK: A Mumps Crisis Is Coming as Vaccines Wear Off, Harvard Report Warns -4↑. The Daily Mail has mixed factual reporting and in January 2001 the Daily Mail launched campaigns backing Wakefield. • Australia: Perth’s North Has One of the Lowest Immunisation Rates in the Country. Despite the encouraging improvements Australians have been warned against complacency. • Ireland: HSE Launches Information Campaign on the HPV Vaccine, HPV Vaccine – Take Medical over Online Advice, Parents Urged. (HPV Vaccine Uptake Increases Following Information Campaign, Parents Told to Ignore Fake News over Teen HPV Jabs, At Least 40 Will Die Because of Drop in HPV Vaccinations, Bishop Apologises over Misinformation on HPV Vaccine, Bishop Apologises for False Claims about HPV Vaccine and Teenage Sex, Life Institute Writes to Mary Harney: Parents Need Your Response Regarding Expert's Warning on Cervical Cancer Jab). • Philippines: WHO Laments Low Vaccination Rates amid Dengvaxia Scare, -3.1‡. • Malaysia: Toddler Dies of Diphtheria after Parents Refused to Vaccinate Her Against Disease. (Parents, Communities Urged to Immunise Children Fully Against Diphtheria. Diphtheria in Malaysia. 18 Cases of Diphtheria, Three Deaths So Far in Malaysia this Year (2017). Outrage over Diphtheria Deaths in Malaysia (2016), two children have died from diphtheria this month, their parents believed the jabs contained elements of pig DNA. Malaysia Diphtheria Case Count Now 27 (2016), the 3 year old child had not been immunized, the family practiced homeopathy. [Photo]) • USA: How Facebook Groups Are Being Exploited to Spread Misinformation, Plan Harassment, and Radicalize People. Have lots of material on the line manipulation of social media in the database, (Here's How to Share as Little Data as Possible Without Deleting Facebook, Cambridge Analytica Scandal: Legitimate Researchers Using Facebook Data Could Be Collateral Damage, -180304-3*A↓). • Turkey: Alarming Rate of Anti-Vaxxers Concerns Doctors, predictable for a country that removed evolution from its curriculum <ADDED 170917-170625-2*A>7, and part of the global trend of MMR reemerging -4*↑, As Experts Warn of Global Infectious Diseases Timebomb, Colombia Records its First Measles Case in Years, Epidemiological Update Measles 16 March 2018, [Map]). • Pakistan: Social Media Poses New Challenge for Anti-Polio Campaigns, -180304-3*A↓. Two Polio Workers Killed, Three Abducted by Militants in Pakistan. (Pakistan: Polio Outbreak, [Chart 2017, Chart 2015, Chart 2014], 650 Suspected Terrorists Arrested in Countrywide Crackdown, Pakistan Is Racing to Combat the World’s First Extensively Drug Resistant Typhoid Outbreak. Rumors about poisoned vaccines are making this bacterial infection hard to control).
-7. Researchers Develop Device That Extracts Water from Desert Air. Neat technology but think. What would happen to the desert biome if even more water is taken from it. From an anthrocentric perspective this sounds like a solution to drought, but in the long run is even more harmful -1↑. Ingenious and Cunning Ways Wildlife Survives in a Desert. Expanding Deserts. The Dying of the Dead Sea (2005), The Dead Sea Is Dying: Thousands of Sinkholes Shrinking Water Level at Rate of 1.4 Metres a Year (2017), [Photo]. Engineering Crops to Conserve Water, Resist Drought.
-8. #Book How the Black Death Shaped Modern Public Health Emergency Preparedness: A Review of Expelling the Plague [Cover]. One of the core functions of government is to keep those whose individual rights it was constituted to protect free from contagion from other humans (through both accidental non-deliberate transmission as well as deliberate transmission in acts of biological warfare or bioterrorism) . This function manifested through infectious disease surveillance programs, quarantine and isolation laws, and various biodefense programs. These programs are largely managed through public health agencies that have existed for quite some time and their place of origin is not a all obvious as these organized activities really began several centuries ago in the time of the Black Death (1377) on the Dalmatian Coast in a now defunct republic called Ragusa (Dubrovnik) – now part of Croatia. The chief value of this academic work is the illustration of a pioneering proactive approach to infectious disease outbreak management that forms the basis of how many nations respond to these threats over 600 years later. While the penalties imposed are revolting to the modern reader (or should be), it is important to not drop historical context and fail to realize that the Ragusans were reacting to what would be, in modern terms, a global catastrophic biological risk.
-180318-1.1>1. FEMA's Disaster Preparedness Plan is a Disaster for the US. The federal agency primarily responsible for funding community rebuilding in the aftermath of a large scale disasters, has removed any reference to climate change, including sea level rise and extreme weather, from its just released strategic plan. Again I disagree that the removal of those terms will make any difference. FEMA has never been able to deal with slow moving catastrophic disasters – drought, sea level rise, trash 2, climate change, pandemic, invasive species, zoodemic, coastal erosion, soil depletion, forced migrations, extinction, lowering of water tables, deterioration and building of infrastructure, heat waves, mono species overpopulation, biological diversity 2, deforestation, oil spills, etc. It has always dealt with dramatic sudden onset disasters – flood, tornado, snow, fire, earthquake hurricane – that overwhelm local disaster capabilities, and that are in the interest to the US Government to recover. The disaster isn’t words – though that is troubling. The disaster is the continued cutting of funds, personnel, expertise, knowledge and capabilities. When a disaster strikes FEMA will have nothing to respond with, and no ability to foster collaboration. FEMA’s New Strategic Plan Talks to ‘Us’. Federal Government's Silence on Climate Could Stymie Disaster Planning. A Plan Made of Straw and Sticks, Three Little Pigs lesson in Disaster Resilience [Art, Photo].
-‡. Situations like Puerto Rico may become more common. Puerto Rico, 6 Months after Hurricane Maria, 6 Months after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico Has a Suicide Crisis and a Housing Shortage, Still Waiting for Power: Six Months after Hurricane Maria, Frustrated Puerto Ricans Rally in D.C., Needs Go Unmet 6 Months after Maria Hit Puerto Rico, Emails Show FEMA Silent amid Chaos after Hurricane Maria, Unable to Prove They Own Their Homes, Puerto Ricans Denied FEMA Help. What Puerto Rico Is, and Isn't, Getting in Disaster Relief, Poll: Majority Says Puerto Rico Not Getting Enough Help after Hurricane. Puerto Rico Still in Emergency Mode. He Said He Was a Millionaire Who Wanted to Help Puerto Rico – but it Was All a Scam. Is San Juan's Mayor Sabotaging Puerto Rican Relief Efforts to Make President Donald Trump Look Bad. Congress Faces Growing Health Care Crisis in Puerto Rico, Displaced Puerto Ricans Face Obstacles Getting Health Care. <ADDED 180304-180128-3.1>4, 180301-3.8† -3.9† -4.3†, <ADDED 180204-171015-3A -*>13. Puerto Rico is an example of an already teetering society, with long term, slow, largely hidden disasters, that became very noticeable when a disaster struck and it did not have the capabilities to mitigate before, or respond after. First it had financial problems, that were exacerbated by the biodisaster of Zika, and then it fully collapsed with a hurricane, inability to get the necessary level of help from other jurisdictions, and being exploited. Feds and Puerto Rico Reach Deal Allowing Disaster Recovery Loans to Start Flowing. I Sit and Cry All Day: Suicide Hotline Calls Double in Puerto Rico.
-180318-6>2. This is typical, an overall trend may be one direction, but usually one can find counter and alternative trends. Adds to the difficulty of being precise about what will happen. USAID and FAO Working Together to Preempt the Next Global Pandemic, but overall the trend of the US Government is not to support global health funding, Shortchanging Global Health Now Will Cost Us Later. In addition what is a current powerful trend may run against a larger, slower, even more powerful, but invisible trend. US Investment in Global Health Security – A Good Return. Georgetown to Collaborate with the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations US. US at Critical Juncture with Global Health Security Agenda, hampered by the inadequate or underprepared systems around the world that can't effectively deal with rapidly emerging unexpected threats. Pandemic Preparedness and Forecast. Lassa Fever and Global Health Security. Known Unknowns and Unknown Unknowns. WHO's latest list of priority infections includes Disease X, an unknown illness. But how do we prepare for such a disease.
-180311-1.2>3. Decline in Hunters Threatens How U.S. Pays for Conservation. The steady drop is expected to accelerate in coming years, threatening the much lauded model through which the U.S. has paid for conservation. ¶ Zinke Supports Restoration of Grizzlies in North Cascades. Possibly cynical but probably to open up for hunting later. However; the ranching industry was far less enthused. Reintroducing as many as 200 man eating predators into an area already reeling from exploding gray wolf populations is anything but neighborly. This decision won’t just impact ranchers, it’s a blow for the entire North Cascades ecosystem (actually an anthrome that is a relatively new human ecosystem*), the safety of locals and visitors, and the local economy. *Sustainable Rural and Urban Ecosystems: Design, Implementation and Operation, Chapter 2 Human Ecosystems page 5-10. [Chart].
-180311-2>4, <ADDED 180318>. Former FDA Heads Speak out Against Right to Try. House Passes 'Right to Try' Drug Bill. Q&A: the Debate over the Right to Try Experimental Drugs. Depending on the provisions and how implements this may not be as bad as implied. There will be an opportunity to test drugs on human guinea pigs earlier; If FDA maintains control of who can administer and what treatments are approved for terminal cases; If this is not expanded to snake oil, pseudoscience, non terminal cases, an; If costs are tightly controlled (or free) to take away financial temptations, then; There may be some limited value. Overall this speaks to likely attitude toward biodisaster, rather than take steps to develop proven methods, take the chance that experimenting in a crisis will create a solution quickly enough to be of any use. Right to Try Measure Loosening Experimental Drug Access Sails Through House on Second Attempt. Right to Try, the Controversial Plan to Help the Terminally Ill That Just Passed the House, is unnecessary and carries more risk than reward. Bowing to Koch Brothers, House Passes Egregious Right to Try Bill. Experimental treatments include vaccines.
-A. Polish Firm Sued over Tricking Homeless into Vaccine Test. Will Right to Try Bill Actually Help Anyone. Right to Try was a trend well before this, which is one reason why I was certain it would pass in congress. The concept has already largely been implemented, is popular, and come with little political cost to support, while being against (even if for good reason) is politically costly. Even so it was a bit of a surprise it did not pass last week, and may have additional challenges with the Senate that will make it more rubber stamping of what already exists. The Proposed Federal Right to Try Law Is Not the Answer for Critically Ill Patients (2016). All Hat, No Cattle. The False Hope of Right to Try Laws (2016). The Success of Right to Try Laws Signals a Major Policy Shift (2015). Should Dying Patients Have the Right to Access Experimental Treatments (2014). Ebola, the Right to Try, and Why We Should Care (2014). -180304-6↓.
-180304-3>5, <ADDED 180318>3. Anti-Vaxxers are Claiming Victory after Texas Primaries. Will Their Influence Grow. Besides the issue of creating a highly vulnerable population of MMR this is of parademic interest because of blurring. Blurring is when the characteristics of categories that distinguish one set from another set. Elections like this that are associated with biotrumpism, religion, political and sexual orientation, and other demographics and identifications may more closely define the motivations of who is anti-vax. Currently we have the odd situation of Somali refugees and Texans, where we don’t yet understand why makes them the same, only seeing the differences. -4*, -6↑. | Texas has long been a syndemic of social ills that can exacerbate an accelerated biodisaster, Is Mental Illness to Blame for Gun Violence Like the Texas Shooting, toxic, Texas Wants Back Family Planning Funds it Lost under Obama for Defunding Planned Parenthood, -180304-6↓, Lamar Smith, the Departing Head of the House Science Panel, Will Leave a Controversial and Complicated Legacy, Texas' Health Care System: Separate and Unequal, Why Texas Is the Most Dangerous U.S. State to Have a Baby – not precisely true [Map]. The recent bombings are probably reflective of this toxic social environment, but unlikely that this disturbed young man had a rationale based on any parademic issues. A Portrait Emerges of Austin Serial Bomber Mark Anthony Conditt's Life, but Not His Motives. To Us, It's Very Much Racial: Bombings Highlight Austin's 2 Cities. Texas' Murder Rate Went up Again Last Year, Remains Relatively Low. A Spree of Violence Can Shake a Community's Worldview with the continuous trauma of a drawn out event like the Austin bombings is different than a one time disaster, same as a biodisaster.
-180304-3*A¶>6, <ADDED 180318>3, Tiny Percent of Reddit Communities Spark Majority of Conflicts. Also known as the 80 20 rule, in this can 20% (actually less than that, probably around 7%) creates 80% of the conflicts (again probably more, just shy of 100%). Big Shadow, Little Creature. [Cartoon]. -6.1↑.
-180311-6B>7. Aum Cult Members Face Execution for Tokyo Subway Gas Attack. March 20, 1995 Tokyo Subways Are Attacked with Sarin Gas. | Wild Wild Country May Be the Craziest Series You Watch All Year. The cult that caused a salmonella outbreak deemed the largest attack of biological terrorism in the United States.
-180304-6>8, <ADDED 180311>4. [Strip, Strip, Strip, Strip, Strip, Strip]. Why an Imperfect HIV Vaccine Could Be Better than None at All. The Fascinating Story of How AIDS Activism Helped Usher in a Right to Try Movement (2016), Before Occupy: How AIDS Activists Seized Control of the FDA in 1988 (2011), which may have change support for Right to Try for those who are anti-LGBT, -180311-2↑, <ADDED 180128-180121-2A>1Quote. Susan Sontag on AIDS, 1986. ¶ Watchdog: Bisexual and Lesbian Health Information Removed from HHS Website. CDC Recommends Against Loaning out Your Pen If Someone Asks for It. CDC Mandates Life Preservers to Avoid Drowning in Paperwork. Civil Rights Chief at HHS Defends the Right to Refuse Care on Religious Grounds. Top Senate Dem Raises Concerns over Potential CDC Pick, Leading AIDS Researcher Selected as CDC Director, Research Misconduct Allegations Shadow New CDC Head, Scientist Tapped to Lead CDC Does Not Inspire Confidence. Wonder how much longer this will still be true Daily Source Bias Check: Centers for Disease Control (CDC), ProScience. Factual Reporting: Very High. Though what it reports has been reliable, CDC has not always been the most reliable about reporting of some health issues and the trend for the past year is that it is sharing less and less information; misinformation by omission. 180107-5.1 and 170423s24 -4.1 are getting close to being Trump’s ideal of being a perfect 2 agency, as has happened at the EPA. Pruitt to Restrict the Use of Data to Craft EPA Regulations. Hurricane Harvey’s Toxic Impact Deeper than Public Told, Residents near Harvey Damaged Chemical Plant Wary of Water, -180304-3↑. The EPA Needs Science to Make Rules to Protect Health. Scott Pruitt Wants to Make That Harder. The US is on a trend of being what is a norm in Russian Landfill Attracts National Attention, or maybe this is part of the biotrumism efforts to create more sources of income Landfills: A Future Source of Raw Materials, 180301-2.3. Grief Humor → Imperfect Vaccine → History of Right to Try → LGBT Deletion → Evaluation of CDC → BioPolitics → EPA Anti-Science, → Landfills.
-180225-4>9. Surgeon David Nott: Hack Led to Syria Air Strike. Surgeon who helped Syrian doctors online fears his computer was hacked, leading to an air strike on a hospital. [CGI]. Syrian and Russian Forces Targeting Hospitals as a Strategy of War, -6.1↑.
-180204-3Quote>10. The term holistic refers to the fundamental interconnectedness of all things. I see the solution to each problem as being detectable in the pattern and web of the whole. The connections between causes and effects are often much more subtle and complex than we with our rough and ready understanding of the physical world might naturally suppose. – Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
-170319-10>11, <ADDED 171022>. Below the Radar, the U.S. Is Making Steady Progress on the Climate Security Nexus. From the homeland security folks who respond to national disasters to the armed forces planning for hostile encounters with state or nonstate adversaries, the U.S. security community understands that climate change affects what they do, often profoundly. Despite the skeptics in the highest ranks of government, there is quiet and steady progress being made to integrate greater knowledge about climate change and its impacts into threat assessments, planning and training for future security contingencies. ¶ How California's Giant Sequoias Tell the Story of Americans' Conflicted Relationship with Nature, If You've Seen One Tree .... [Photo, Cartoon]. National Park Service Warned Lease Sale Tuesday Could Harm National Monument in Utah, Feds Sells Leases on Archaeologically Rich Southern Utah Lands for Oil and Gas. Congress Just Made it Easier to Sell off Federal Land, Including National Parks. Yosemite National Park Completes Construction on New 6 Lane Scenic Driving Trail.
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