Although CNN, WaPo, and possibly others have finally begun doing some reporting on the East Palestine incident, which is believed to be the biggest environmental disaster in American history, the Guardian, a British paper, remains the only major outlet getting down into the nitty gritty and keeping the public informed on major developments.
I do not support the Guardian in general, as it is a leftist outlet. However, given that it is British and much less Jewish than its American counterparts, the staff doesn’t seem to understand that there are some events that can obviously be covered from a left-wing angle that the media is supposed to completely ignore and try to bury.
In this specific case, the writers at the Guardian have to be noticing the lack of coverage in the US. I would think they would also have to notice the fact that activists like Greta Thunberg are so aggressively ignoring this, and basically proving that the entire environmentalist movement is a hoax.
It would be fascinating if the Guardian were to publish a “Why Hasn’t Greta Mentioned East Palestine?” article, but I think that would definitely be expecting too much.
Newly released data shows soil in the Ohio town of East Palestine – scene of a recent catastrophic train crash and chemical spill – contains dioxin levels hundreds of times greater than the exposure threshold above which Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) scientists in 2010 found poses cancer risks.
The EPA at the time proposed lowering the cleanup threshold to reflect the science around the highly toxic chemical, but the Obama administration killed the rules, and the higher federal action threshold remains in place.
Though the dioxin levels in East Palestine are below the federal action threshold and an EPA administrator last week told Congress the levels are “very low”, chemical experts, including former EPA officials, who reviewed the data for the Guardian called them “concerning”.
The levels found in two soil samples are also up to 14 times higher than dioxin soil limits in some states, and the numbers point to wider contamination, said Linda Birnbaum, a former head of the US National Toxicology Program and EPA scientist.
“The levels are not screaming high, but we have confirmed that dioxins are in East Palestine’s soil,” she said. “The EPA must test the soil in the area more broadly.”
The data likely confirms fears that the controlled burn of vinyl chloride in the days after the train wreck in the town created dioxin and dispersed it throughout the area, experts say, though they stressed the new data is of limited value because only two soil samples were checked.
Dioxins are a class of chemicals that are a byproduct produced when chlorine is burned, which is a common industrial process in making products like PVC.
The chemicals are highly persistent and can accumulate and stay for years in the environment or human bodies. Among other health issues, the compounds are linked to cancer, diabetes, heart disease, nervous system disorders and other serious health problems. Soil and food contamination are considered to be among the most common exposure routes.
The fact that anyone can watch this situation, and watch Greta refuse to talk about it, and then continue to believe in the global warming hoax absolutely proves that the masses of people are simply too stupid and easily manipulated for democracy to ever be viable.
Because of the stupidity of the masses, and their willingness to believe obvious and moronic lies, democracy will always be a system defined by corruption and exploitation.
Why dioxins in #EastPalestine are such a big concern https://t.co/zGaJQHMV3X
— Beth Schongar – Green (@BethSchongar) March 17, 2023