The Disease of Modern Man

 

Today we are spewing a deadly mixture of chemicals and toxins into the environment. We know that certain chemicals are dangerous and toxic, but nobody really knows the dangers they pose when they interact with each other. We do know, however, that the human body is being bathed in an onslaught of man made chemicals and it is taking a deadly toll.
We are made to believe that cancer is something that develops because of bad genetics. But the research shows that it is carcinogens that lead to cancer.

Researchers looking at almost a thousand mummies from ancient Egypt and South America found only a handful suffered from cancer when now it accounts for nearly one in three deaths.The findings suggest that it is modern lifestyles and pollution levels caused by industry that are the main cause of the disease and that it is not a naturally occurring condition.The study showed the disease rate has risen dramatically since the Industrial Revolution, in particular childhood cancer – proving that the rise is not simply due to people living longer.

So when you see a child with cancer then you can be reasonably sure that it was the toxins in their environment that led to the disease. But not only is our way of life killing even those we hold most dear. It is also killing the planet. 

The rapid loss of species we are seeing today is estimated by experts to be between 1,000 and 10,000 times higher than the natural extinction rate.*

We are poisoning and killing ourselves in our greedy lust to consume and we are killing a great deal of life that supports us. If we open our eyes, we see a cruel irony in all of this. Our reckless consumption is creating a disease that literally is consuming us. But on a deeper level, it is the cancer of consumerism that has taken hold of our very being and has blackened our hearts and minds so that we continue in our deadly activities.  

Grant