Something happened in 1940, which marked the beginning of a new era. The era of the...
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Samuel Epstein M.D.:
Something happened in 1940, which marked the beginning of a new era. The era of the ability to synthesise and create, on an unlimited scale, new chemicals that had never existed before in the world. So, suddenly it became possible to produce any new synthetic chemical, the like of which had never existed before in the world, for any purpose and at virtually no cost. For instance, if you wanted to go to a chemist and say, 'Look, I want to have chemical, say a pesticide that will persist throughout the food chain and I don't want to have to renew it very, very often, I'd like it to be relatively non-destructible', and then he'd put 2 benzene molecules on the blackboard and add a chlorine here, and a chlorine there, that was DDT! As the petrochemical era grew and grew, warning signs emerged that some of these chemicals could pose hazards. The data initially were trivial, anecdotal, but gradually, a body of data started accumulating to the extent that we now know that the synthetic chemicals, which have permeated our workplace, our consumer products, our air, our water, produced cancer, and also birth defects and some other toxic effects. Furthermore, industry has known about this, at least most industries have known about this, and have attempted to trivialise these risks. If I take a gun and shoot you, that's criminal. If I expose you to some chemicals, which knowingly are going to kill you, what difference is there? The difference is that it takes longer to kill you. We are now in the midst of a major cancer epidemic and I have no doubt and I have documented the basis for this, that industry is largely responsible for this overwhelming epidemic of cancer, in which 1 in every two men get cancer in their lifetimes, and 1 in every 3 women get cancer in their lifetimes.
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cosmetics weed killers
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A whole galaxy of things to make a better life on earth
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For instance if you wanted to go to a chemist and say
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look I want to have a chemical say a pesticide
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which will persist throughout the food chain
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and I don't want to have to renew it very very often
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Id like it to be relatively non destructible
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and then he'd put two benzene molecules
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on the blackboard and add a chlorine here
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and a chlorine there
Clip duration: 35 seconds
Views: 110
Timestamp in movie: 00h 26m 06s
Uploaded: 01 December, 2022
Genres: documentary, history
Summary: Documentary that looks at the concept of the corporation throughout recent history up to its present-day dominance.
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01:04 There are times when you think about it
01:09 One of the questions that comes up periodically
01:12 It is never a decision that any CEO makes lightly
00:38 The corporation is not a person
00:36 What if it never ran
00:34 It can go back
00:18 The pursuit of profit is an old story
00:45 With deregulation privatization free trade
00:32 Privatization does not mean you take a public institution
00:30 The goal for the corporations is to maximize profit
00:33 About how they feel about things
00:16 In a world economy where information is filtered
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00:24 Monsanto sent the second letter
00:36 I said you know this is news
00:37 What Fox neglected to report is this
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00:36 Is the collusion between corporations