Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 Acid rain falling in New England but originating from midwestern power plants is a potent refutation of this proposition. acid rain also underscores the truism that risks do not evaporate outside the factory door. There is no absolute boundary point between "occupational" and "environmental" risks. Hazardous materials certainly do not recognize a separation between the workplace and the wider environment. Each such product passes though its own life cycle, from invention through technological refinement, then on to mass production, until it reaches obsolescence. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 Normally, glucose is what gives our cells energy, but when we develop insulin resistance (from having a genetic predisposition such as a family history of type 2 diabetes or from being overweight), the figure El The Great Ooop Like pollution or acid rain, glycosylation junks up the beautiful parts of the city. insulin can't effectively get all the glucose into our cells. If glucose can't get into a cell, it stays in the blood and gunks up the proteins in our body. It's a little bit like acid rain—it damages the things it touches and makes them leaky. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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| By this he meant that a smokestack, if tall enough, could solve any problem. acid rain falling in New England but originating from midwestern power plants is a potent refutation of this proposition. acid rain also underscores the truism that risks do not evaporate outside the factory door. There is no absolute boundary point between "occupational" and "environmental" risks. Hazardous materials certainly do not recognize a separation between the workplace and the wider environment. |
Gary Null
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| The most common form of acid rain contains an acid that results from sulfur oxide emissions. It destroys the environment, an effect you can see if you fly over certain parts of some states, such as Connecticut and Maine. The land looks scorched, as if there has been a forest fire. This is the effect of acid rain on trees.
The aquatic ecosystem is altered too: when acid rain gets into freshwater lakes and streams, the bacteria and plankton at the bottom of the food chain are the first to die, followed by the insects, and finally the frogs and fish. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Our driving habits contribute to global warming, which is cooking the planet; acid rain, which is killing our forests and polluting the water supply; and dramatic increases in cases of asthma and allergies among all segments of the population. Our children and our elders are especially susceptible to the effects of driving cars and trucks that run on petroleum products.
As stated earlier in the food addiction section, the very food we eat has been poisoned for years in the name of profit. Fruits and vegetables are doused with fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides. |
Mark Lynas
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 It has long been known that sulphate aerosols - released during the combustion of fossil fuels, and an important contributor to acid rain - have a short-term cooling effect on the climate, temporarily shielding us from the full effects of greenhouse warming by cutting off some of the Sun's rays. These aerosols are the most likely culprits for the perplexing small drop in twentieth-century global temperatures between 1940 and about 1960, at a time when greenhouse gas emissions were beginning to rise rapidly. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Increased levels of acid rain infuse dissolved aluminum compounds into the earth, and this has led to the deposit of these toxins in both fresh and salt water. Previously clean sources of drinking water have now been polluted plus countless marine species have been contaminated by the after-effects of our "disposable" culture.
Aluminum can be absorbed either through the intestinal tract or the lungs depending on the point of initial exposure. Drinking soda from a can, for example, dumps aluminum toxins into the intestinal tract. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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| In addition to identifying acid rain as a major aftereffect of burning sulfur-containing fossil fuel, Scattergood included the following among the "evils arising from smoke": decreased sunlight causing loss of warmth, increased expense cleaning the dirt left by pollution, and the destruction of plant life. |
David Steinman
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 Climate change and acid rain were two big threats today, he said. I asked Blinn if he'd seen examples of a warming trend in this region. "We are starting to see much earlier ice outs on Lake Champlain. I have noticed a big difference in temperature, too. It seems much warmer, overall. We used to get twenty-five below weather two or three weeks at a time. We don't anymore."
I looked down on pristine Ingram pond where all nearby logging was certified by the FSC. |
Mark Sircus
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 It disrupts the pH (acid/alkaline) balance of the soil, as does acid rain. Acid conditions destroy soil microorganisms whose job it is to transmute soil minerals into a form that is usable by plants. In the absence of these microbes, these minerals become locked up, unavailable to the plant.
Stimulated by the N P K fertilizer, the plant grows, but is deficient in vital trace minerals. In the absence of trace minerals, plants take up heavy metals (such as aluminum, mercury and lead) from the soil. Between 1950 and 1975, the calcium content in one cup of rice dropped 21%, and iron fell by 28.6%. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| The bulk of the 90 nutrients essential to human health have been depleted from the soil by fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, irrigation, acid rain and other factors. Then during food processing up to two-thirds of vitamin and mineral levels in most foods are eliminated. To make matters worse, when food processors claim to fortify these foods by adding vitamins and minerals, they are inserting chemicals that imitate, not really replace, the natural nutrients found in food. These are poor imitations that may do more harm than good. |
Mark Lynas
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| Approximately 15,000 square kilometres of grasslands are annually degraded by overgrazing and drought. acid rain falls on a quarter of its cities. Three out of four urban residents breathe air which falls below minimum health standards. In Hong Kong's 2006 marathon, for example, several runners were hospitalised and one died after completing the course in persistent smog.
Because of its sheer size and population, China is on a collision course with the planet. |
Gabriel Cousens
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 Presently, both these sources are becoming more and more polluted as toxic chemicals, acid rain, raw sewage, agricultural herbicides, pesticide runoff, chlorination, fluoridation, sewage landfills, and radioactive wastes are either dumped into or seep into them. One of the best-known examples of toxic water pollution to date is the infamous Love Canal, where according to the New York Times in 1984, thousands of tons of toxic chemicals were dumped, including 60 pounds of the deadly poison dioxin. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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| A number of Victorian hygienists, recognizing the seriousness of the problem of air pollution nearly a century before the 1952 Killer Fog, began to tally its environmental and health impacts and to analyze systematically the chemical constituents of air pollution, including the role of sulfur dioxide in what we now call acid rain.19
The following is taken from the notes of a Dr. Thomas Scattergood, who, in 1886, delivered a lecture titled "The Air We Breathe in Large Towns" to the Working Man's Institute. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Acid rain has taken its toll as well: American soil has lost as much as 75 percent of its calcium during the past century, which also compromises a crop's nutrient intake and growth.
Processed foods are just as troubling. When we hear phrases such as "food manufacturing" or "food processing," few of us have a visual picture of what that really means or how many chemicals, preservatives, and additives work their way into the foods we eat as they're processed and packaged on manufacturing assembly lines. |
Mark Schapiro
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 Environmental Protection Agency administrator Stephen Johnson announced talks with Chinese officials to develop an emissions-trading market in sulfur-dioxide emissions, a market-driven strategy that has been highly successful in reducing acid rain in North America but has had little effect on greenhouse gases. |
| Bush in 1988, was a successful American innovation on capital markets that was emulated globally and reduced the sulfur-dioxide emissions that contribute to acid rain. Now that system is being emulated on a grander scale, in the carbon-credit trading markets used by the signatories of Kyoto, to channel billions of dollars into renewable energy. The United States refuses to participate in these markets.
The Bush administration's refusal to sign the Kyoto accord is shifting business opportunities from U.S. to European innovators. |
Thomas Bartram
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 ACID RAIN SICKNESS. acid rain air pollution is responsible for increased hospital admissions with respiratory illness when it hangs in a haze over a polluted area. The main components of acid rain are sulphates, salts of sulphur, known to cause breathing difficulties. Alternatives. Teas: Alfalfa, Angelica leaves, Boneset, Catnep, Chamomile, Coltsfoot, Comfrey leaves, Dandelion leaves, Hyssop, Lemon Balm. Lime flowers, Milk Thistle, Mullein, White Horehound, Red Clover flowers, Sage, Violet leaves, Umeboshi tea. Tablets/capsules. |
James Howard Kunstler
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 Coal-fired power plants are chiefly responsible for acid rain. Perhaps these are prices that Americans will be willing to pay in order to enjoy high levels of electricity consumption in the future. It is certainly possible to clean up the emissions from coal-fired power plants, but it makes electricity more expensive, and the political will to clean up the industry may not be there in a more austere economy. In any case, even if heavy metals and particulates are taken out of the emissions, coal will still produce large quantities of carbon dioxide, the chief suspect in global warming. |
E. D. Hirsch
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 A chart of the atmosphere acid rain A type of rain made up of dilute acids, a by-product of heavy industry. fa acid rain is a result of the combination of water with chemicals released into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels, fa This type of pollution is a major threat to the forests and wildlife of the northeastern United States and the adjoining areas of Canada, fa acid rain has been the focus of conflict between Canada and the United States over environmental regulation.
Air Quality Index A measure of the quantity of harmful particles and chemicals in the air. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 Like the oxides of nitrogen, sulfur dioxide is a major contributor to acid rain and smog. Corrosive acids (such as sulfurous acid and sulfuric acid) formed in the air can rain down to cause massive damage to wildlife, vegetation, streams, rivers, and lakes. Lung problems are caused by breathing sulfur dioxide, including permanent lung damage from long-term exposure (or exposure for shorter times at higher doses).
Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)
There are many volatile organic compounds. Volatile chemicals form vapors easily at normal room temperature. |
Larry Trivieri, Jr.
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 These heavy metals are found in products to which we are exposed daily and are also delivered to us by acid rain."Acid rain leaches heavy metals out of the bedrock, moving them into our rivers and lakes, and eventually into the water we drink," says Dr. Gaby. "Acid rain has also caused our drinking water to become more acidic, which challenges our body's buffering capacity, drawing calcium out of
HOW BONES GROW AND CHANGE SHAPE
Bones grow and develop throughout childhood and adolescence, and in a person's twenties bone mass increases by 15%. |
James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch
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| A CHART OF THE ATMOSPHERE acid rain A type of precipitation made up of dilute acids, primarily a by-product of heavy industry. fa acid rain is a result of the combination of water with chemicals released into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels, fa This type of pollution is a major threat to the forests and wildlife of the northeastern United States and the adjoining areas of Canada, fa acid rain has been the focus of conflict between Canada and the United States over environmental regulation.
Air Quality Index A measure of the quantity of harmful particles and chemicals in the air. |
Alex Steffen
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 Ninety percent of its urban bodies of water are considered polluted, and acid rain falls on nearly a third of the country. Pollution-related diseases —respiratory failure, heart diseases—are the leading cause of death in China. Air pollution is so bad that traffic cops in Beijing only live an average of forty years.
A major cause of that pollution is China's continued reliance on aging coal-fired power plants, which generate 75 percent of the country's electricity, according to the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. Coal is also burnt to heat many private homes. |
Gary Null
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| This is the effect of acid rain on trees.
The aquatic ecosystem is altered too: when acid rain gets into freshwater lakes and streams, the bacteria and plankton at the bottom of the food chain are the first to die, followed by the insects, and finally the frogs and fish. While you might not care about the lives and deaths of individual insects, frogs, and fish, their demise should serve as a wake-up call that things are not going well with our stewardship of the earth.
THE ENVIRONMENT AND YOUR BODY
But what in the world does all this pollution have to do with aging? you might ask. |
| One aspect of that price is the phenomenon of acid rain. The very concept of acid rain should be enough to give you pause. It's like a curse: The by-products of our lifestyle—sulfur and nitrogen oxides from coal-burning power plants, as well as factory and automobile emissions—mix with precipitation in the atmosphere and then return to earth, sometimes thousands of miles from their source, showering an acidic solution onto our farmlands, forests, lakes, and oceans. (This could be in the form of rain, fog, snow, or dust. |
James Howard Kunstler
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| The environmental legislation of the 1970s made coal increasingly problematic, too, as it was implicated in acid rain.
Meanwhile, by the mid-1980s consumption of natural gas had dropped by 24 percent from the early 1970s levels. The natural gas producers began to go bankrupt. To rescue the industry, the Reagan administration reversed the Carter regulations. Instead of forbidding natural gas in power plants, the regulators now encouraged it. The April 1986 meltdown of Chernobyl in the Ukraine was much worse than Three Mile Island had been. |
E. D. Hirsch
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| A chart of the atmosphere acid rain A type of rain made up of dilute acids, a by-product of heavy industry. fa acid rain is a result of the combination of water with chemicals released into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels, fa This type of pollution is a major threat to the forests and wildlife of the northeastern United States and the adjoining areas of Canada, fa acid rain has been the focus of conflict between Canada and the United States over environmental regulation.
Air Quality Index A measure of the quantity of harmful particles and chemicals in the air. |
James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch
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| A CHART OF THE ATMOSPHERE acid rain A type of precipitation made up of dilute acids, primarily a by-product of heavy industry. fa acid rain is a result of the combination of water with chemicals released into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels, fa This type of pollution is a major threat to the forests and wildlife of the northeastern United States and the adjoining areas of Canada, fa acid rain has been the focus of conflict between Canada and the United States over environmental regulation.
Air Quality Index A measure of the quantity of harmful particles and chemicals in the air. |
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