Carbon Burning, Zionism & War Kill 1 million Americans Yearly

"Terra" painting by Gideon Polya

Americans have had a long love affair with carbon burning (burning of vegetation, wood, coal, gas and oil). It can be estimated that about 1 million Americans die each year from carbon burning and related violence.

Decent Americans who believe that "all men are created equal and have an unalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" and that "you cannot walk by on the other side" have an obligation to ACT, to do something as good citizens about this catastrophe befalling about 1 million of their countrymen every year. In doing so they can save themselves from carbon burning, Zionism and war - and also help save the world from the currently acute nuclear, greenhouse and poverty threats. I have indeed illustrated this article with my painting "Terra" (for further amplification of the image and the discussion see "War on Terra, Climate Criminals. "Terra" painting" : http://mwcnews.net/content/view/15671/42/ )

The breakdown of this carbon-burning, Zionism and imperialism-driven American Holocaust (with documentation) is as follows:

1. Smoking

Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States. Cigarette smoking causes an estimated 438,000 deaths, or about 1 of every 5 deaths, each year. This estimate includes approximately 38,000 deaths from second hand smoke exposure, and one must note that the death toll will go on for decades to come (see: http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/Factsheets/tobacco_related_mortality.htm ).

2. Particulate pollution

Back in 1991 it was estimated that 60,000 Americans died annually from particulate pollution from carbon burning (see: http://www.burningissues.org/tables/mortalitytable.html ). People with diabetes, heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis are at increased risk of death when they are exposed to particulate air pollution (soot).

A 2000 study looked at hospital discharges for people with these four types of diseases living in 34 cities between 1985 and 1999 and found that for an increase of 10 micrograms/per cubic meter of PM10 (10 micron diameter particulates) over two years, the risk of dying was increased by 32% for people with diabetes, 28% for people with COPD, 27% in people with congestive heart failure and 22% for people with inflammatory disease such as rheumatoid arthritis or lupus (see: http://www.burningissues.org/soot-death-risk-diseases.html ). However more recent European data (2005) (see: http://www.burningissues.org/bbc-2-2005air-pollution-dea.htm ) indicates that 310,000 people of the European Union (2005 population ) and 33,000 in the UK (2005 population 59.6 million) die each year from particulates, from which one can estimate that for the US (2005 population 300 million) about 300 x 33,000/59.6 = 166,000 Americans die each year from particulate pollutants.

3. Fossil fuel- and coal-based electricity generation

Pollutants from fossil fuel-based electricity generation (as carbon monoxide, sulphur dioxide, particulates, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, volatile organic components and heavy metals, notably mercury (Hg) ; see: http://dar.csiro.au/…/urbanpollution.html ) kill 170,000 people world-wide each year and cause about 49,000 [2006] "annual coal-based electricity deaths" in the US as compared to 72,000 "total annual fossil fuel-based electricity deaths"in the US (see: http://green-blog.org/2008/06/14/pollutants-from-coal-based-electricity-generation-kill-170000-people-annually/ ). Of course this category may overlap to some extent with that of the "deaths from particulates" item #2.

4. Motor vehicle accidents

Motor vehicle accidents killed 43,354 Americans in 2002 (see Center for Disease Control data: http://www.the-eggman.com/writings/death_stats.html ), noting that motor vehicles are overwhelmingly fossil fuel-dependent. Further, of the only about 15% of fuel burning energy that actually drives a car (the rest being lost as heat), for a 70 kg driver and a 2,000 kg vehicle, only 70/2,000 is used to transport the human being, the overall energy efficiency being 70 x 15%/2,000 = 0.5%. Public transport is vastly more efficient.

5. Domestic American deaths from US-backed Zionist colonization of the Middle East and US Oil Wars

According to outstanding American scholar Professor Noam Chomsky (2007) from the 63-Nobel-Laureate Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (see: http://www.monthlyreview.org/0607nc.htm ) : "The area of greatest concern is the Middle East. There is nothing novel about that. I often have to arrange talks years in advance. If I am asked for a title, I suggest "The Current Crisis in the Middle East." It has yet to fail. There's a good reason: the huge energy resources of the region were recognized by Washington sixty years ago as a "stupendous source of strategic power," the "strategically most important area of the world," and "one of the greatest material prizes in world history." Control over this stupendous prize has been a primary goal of U.S. policy ever since, and threats to it have naturally aroused enormous concern."

This primary goal of US foreign policy has been subverted by the Zionists to the point that outstanding Jewish American investor, philanthropist, Holocaust hero and Holocaust survivor George Soros has criticized the negative effects of the Israel Lobby on US interests (see: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20030 ). Thus Zionist policy has been, in harsh reality, conquest, invasion and domination whereas wiser counsel says that peace, equality and good relations represent a wiser, more humane and better course. According to George Soros (2007) : "I am not sufficiently engaged in Jewish affairs to be involved in the reform of AIPAC; but I must speak out in favor of the critical process that is at the heart of our open society. I believe that a much-needed self-examination of American policy in the Middle East has started in this country; but it can't make much headway as long as AIPAC retains powerful influence in both the Democratic and Republican parties. Some leaders of the Democratic Party have promised to bring about a change of direction but they cannot deliver on that promise until they are able to resist the dictates of AIPAC."

According to top UK MP Michael Meacher (a former Minister in the UK Blair Labor Government) in a must-read analysis entitled "This war on Terrorism is Bogus" (see: http://www.ukwatch.net/article/this_war_on_terrorism_is_bogus ) : "The conclusion of all this analysis must surely be that the "global war on terrorism" has the hallmarks of a political myth propagated to pave the way for a wholly different agenda – the US goal of world hegemony, built around securing by force command over the oil supplies required to drive the whole project. Is collusion in this myth and junior participation in this project really a proper aspiration for British foreign policy? If there was ever need to justify a more objective British stance, driven by our own independent goals, this whole depressing saga surely provides all the evidence needed for a radical change of course."

American scholars and military experts now seriously question the "official Bush version" of the 9/11 atrocity (see: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/23294/42/ ) and 2 top Swiss professors, recently reported in the highest circulation Swiss newspaper "Blick", have given equal credence to the three major hypotheses for who was responsible for the 9/11 atrocity, specifically (1) Muslims in caves, (2) US complicity and (3) US responsibility for 9/11 (see: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/22944/26/ ).

Indeed the former 7-year president of Italy, senator for life, intelligence intimate and law professor Francesco Cossiga, reported in a top Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera (2007) asserts that the US CIA and Israeli Mossad did 9/11 to enhance US and Zionist hegemony and that major intelligence agencies were well aware of this (see: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/18569/26/ ).

At all events, the oil- abd carbon-burning-linked, US-backed Zionist colonization in the Middle East has cost the US taxpayer $3 trillion (see: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/533/26/ ) and the Zionist-backed Bush War on Terror has cost a further $3 trillion in accrual cost for the Iraqi Genocide alone ( 2 million post-invasion excess deaths, 4.5 million refugees). 4,000 US servicemen have been in killed Iraq and 500 killed in Afghanistan (with 30,000 and about 2,500 wounded, respectively, and hundreds of thousands psychologically scarred) (see: http://icasualties.org/oif/ and http://icasualties.org/oef/ ).

According to 2001 Economics Nobel Laureate, Professor Joseph Stiglitz, the Iraq War has "bankrupted" America (see: http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2007/s2236161.htm ) with huge COST implications for preventing death through medical services and preventive medicine in metropolitan America. Thus it has been estimated that 20,000 under-5 year old American infants die avoidably each year http://mwcnews.net/content/view/7102/26/ ); 18,000 Americans die because they lack medical insurance; and according to the US Center for Disease Control in 2004 there were 2.4 million substantially addressable and potentially avoidable deaths of Americans from life style-related disease and violence (see: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/hestats/finaldeaths04/finaldeaths04_tables.pdf#2 ) – if 10% could have been saved annually through preventive medicine programs or expert medical intervention then that's 240,000 lines saved each year. .

Summary

An upper estimate from the above items #1-#5 (and ignoring overlaps) is that a deadly combination of Carbon burning, Zionism, Bushism and Mainstream media and political cowardice kills about 438,000 + 166,000 + 72,000 + 43,000 + 240,000 + 1,000 US soldiers = 960,000 or roughly 1 MILLION AMERICANS ANNUALLY.

And yet best American scientific advice from NASA's Dr Hansen and colleagues at NASA's GISS, New York, is to STOP carbon burning - to adopt a policy of "negative CO2 emissions " in response to the current Climate Emergency and to return the atmospheric CO2 from a current dangerous and deadly 385 ppm to no more than 350 ppm (see: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/23119/42/ ).

And the UN Charter, International Laws, International Humanitarian Conventions, the American Declaration of Independence all declare in effect: that "all men are created equal and have an unalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" and that invasion, occupation, devastation, dispossession, disempowerment and ethnic cleansing of foreign countries is utterly evil, racist and wrong.

Wake up Americans – save yourselves and in so doing save the World.

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