“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Bad Loops

Thank heavens the FDA is getting on the case of antibacterial soaps. They are also anti-batrachic, ie they make frogs die.

"Long-time TreeHugger readers will rejoice at this news; it is an issue we have been covering since 2006, when TreeHugger Emeritus and chemist John Laumer first introduced us to the problem, way back when the pictures were small and the posts were short. Reviewing the series of posts starting seven years ago is seriously depressing; everything the FDA is finally asking now has been on the table for years. And they haven't even banned the stuff yet, they are just asking the companies to justify its use. This is appalling."
--Treehugger

Bad loops: the attempt to be clean results in a further twist in the web of fate.



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