Memorial services for Professor Ira Rohter will be held at Honolulu Waldorf School at 9AM this Saturday, June 27.
I continue excerpting Chapter 2 of SIMPLE SOLUTIONS for Humanity:
But First, Let Us Look at Other Related Life-Issues
Appendix A in Simple Solutions Book 1 covered life expectancies and risks towards life. Here we will run through an assortment of popular health and life topics.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention lists the top ten public health achievements (from 1990 to 2006 in per capita improvement):
○ Vaccination (47% increase in immunization coverage)
○ Motor-vehicle safety (40% decrease in motor vehicle deaths)
○ Safer workplaces
○ Control of infectious diseases (45% decrease in infectious diseases)
○ Decline of deaths from coronary heart disease/stroke (20% decline)
○ Safer and healthier foods
○ Healthier mothers and babies (35% decrease in infant mortality)
○ Family planning
○ Fluoridation of drinking water
○ Recognition of tobacco use as a health hazard (30% decline)
Most of these achievements are significant, but yet, sorely deficient. Let us closely look only at motor-vehicle safety. Of the major developed countries, the U.S. remains the worst, with 15.5 deaths per 100,000, nearly three times higher than Sweden. But it is 5 times worse in Mexico and 20 times even worse in the Bahamas. Worldwide, more than 1 million are killed on the roads every year and up to 50 million injured. The number one killer of tourists is not crime or terrorism, it is motor vehicle crashes. But this is a chapter on bio-issues. What about safer and healthier foods?
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The Dow Jones Industrials surged 173 to 8472. Markets in the Orient were up but Europe was mostly down. Gold went up $11/toz to $942, while oil is in $70/barrel territory again. The House could vote on the "Cap and Trade" bill as soon as Friday. While close passage is being orchestrated, I will go on the record that this legislation is flawed. This political mishmash is a very poor compromise, mostly because Democrats from coal states gained damaging concessions. Not sure if the Senate's will be any better. There is no way that a simple carbon tax can be passed in the U.S. today, but that is the cleanest and most sensible solution to global warming. The bottom line is that President Obama needs to sign something before the next climate conference is held in Copenhagen in December.
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Tropical Storm Nangka left at least 8 dead in the Philippines and should strike well east of Hong Kong this weekend. Former Hurricane Andres just went away and is now a disturbance.
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