Environment Bookmarks

These are bookmarks for environmental issues that don't belong into one of the many other categories such as climate, nuclear, cars, and so on.

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Parkinson and pesticides:

In the summer of 1982, seven heroin users were admitted to a California hospital paralyzed and mute. … Doctors quickly discovered the cause: MPTP, a neurotoxic contaminant that had destroyed a small but critical part of the brain, the substantia nigra, which controls movement. The patients had developed symptoms of late-stage Parkinson’s, almost overnight. … MPTP turned out to be chemically similar to paraquat, a widely used weedkiller that, for decades, had been sprayed on farms across the United States and Europe. -- ‘Parkinson’s is a man-made disease’, by Bartosz Brzeziński, for Politico

‘Parkinson’s is a man-made disease’

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