This makes my head explode, once again, science is helpless when faced with inertia, and greed. Lead-based paint has been banned in the US since 1978, and if this story is any indication, we’re still seeing the effects of peeling paint. But this bit of research from the University of Cincinnati suggests that not only is lead-based paint being used in more than half the world, it is actually legal.
Study Supports ‘Urgent’ Need for Worldwide Ban on Lead-Based Paint
Environmental and occupational health experts at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have found that major countries—including India, China and Malaysia—still produce and sell consumer paints with dangerously high lead levels.
Why would anyone need to use lead-based paint when alternatives have been available for the longest time, the health effects of lead, especially on children, are very well known, and there is no @#$%^&*# reason other than greed and unwillingness to change. What is the point of all these years of research if it makes no difference at all to the bulk of the world’s population? Depressing.
Guess what, even if lead-based paint was banned today, it’s still going to be on the walls forever. As the paint peels, kids will be exposed, have lowered IQ, and all other kinds of health issues for as long as that house is standing, which in India could be a 100 years.
Grassroots organizing is probably needed, and if effective, the stuff will be banned in India quickly, the government does move rapidly on these kinds of easy to legislate issues. But, enforcement will be lax, and awareness will lag, which means we are looking at (my rough guess) at least 20 years more of this issue.
Once again, the absence of a ban and its implementation affects the poor and uneducated disproportionately. The way I see it happening in India is
- Some grassroots awareness, media stories, etc.
- A furore that lasts about a week, before the next big story comes along
- Maybe a government action that will “ban” lead-based paint
- The middle class and above are now aware that they can use titania based paints, so, a quick change for them.
- Everyone else is still stuck with the lead-based paint.
And this does not even begin to address what the US is going through now, aging houses, peeling paint, poor people being exposed to dangerous levels of lead.
The world ain’t very fair…
Right, well, both the Bible and the new age crowds are predicting that a TREMENDOUS die off are coming, and soon. The Bible says that we’ll be living normal days, then WHAM, sudden destruction will fall on the world. The new age crowd call what is coming “The Great Dying”
We are looking at 40-60% of the world’s population being eradicated in short order. This has been the goal of those controlling this world for a long time. Google the “Georgia Guidestones” for more on that.
Here’s what one of the new age prophets has to say on what’s coming:
11: There is known today the existence of certain funguses, which have become commonplace and are ravaging our forests. These funguses will continue to transmute and take on knowing of their environment, and a form of intelligence. Within the first three years of the decade this will lead to disastrous occurrences as mankind is devastated by the fungus moving from vegetation and the lower animal life forms and propagating within the bodies of mammals, including humans.
12: Many specifically designed for the purposes of the demise of the human species itself. With the forethought desire to remove the planet to no more than 50 million living beings, of combined race and culture. And with perhaps a few less varieties of races. This was the great plan discussed at the meeting of the heads of this world in Brazil, which was covered like a Trojan Horse by the devised program and propaganda campaign of being the ” Year of the Indigenous People.”
13: The consequences will be devastating as millions of people become afflicted and we will eventually see tens of millions of people die from viruses, with which allopathic medicine has no method of dealing. These viruses are not natural and it already is but not widely known that these are genetically mutated, and engineered designer prions and virus strains.
The Bible hints at the same thing:
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Young’s Literal Translation
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1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying, as it were a voice of thunder, ‘Come and behold!’
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2 and I saw, and lo, a white horse, and he who is sitting upon it is having a bow, and there was given to him a crown, and he went forth overcoming, and that he may overcome.
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3 And when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, ‘Come and behold!’
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4 and there went forth another horse — red, and to him who is sitting upon it, there was given to him to take the peace from the land, and that one another they may slay, and there was given to him a great sword.
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5 And when he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, ‘Come and behold!’ and I saw, and lo, a black horse, and he who is sitting upon it is having a balance in his hand,
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6 and I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, ‘A measure of wheat for a denary, and three measures of barley for a denary,’ and ‘The oil and the wine thou mayest not injure.’
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7 And when he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, ‘Come and behold!’
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8 and I saw, and lo, a pale horse, and he who is sitting upon him — his name is Death, and Hades doth follow with him, and there was given to them authority to kill, (over the fourth part of the land,) with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and by the beasts of the land.
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The bible says that in the opening salvo of the tribulation we are looking at a minimum of 25% of the world’s population dead. That’s in the neighborhood of 1.5 BILLION people, or thereabouts.
I don’t hear many preachers warning there people about what’s about to happen any day now on this planet. The rapture will be a great escape for those who make it out, most who call themselves christians today will not.
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13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
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14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and FEW there be that find it