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Imagine being told that your children cannot play outside because the grass and soil in your local area is so polluted that it endangers their health. You are not allowed to eat the eggs from the chickens in your garden because eating them could diminish your immune system and/or lead to certain types of cancer. No, this is not the plot of a dystopian novel these are very real consequences for people living in places that are severely polluted by PFAS. Also known as forever chemicals.

Newborn babies are particularly vulnerable to hot conditions. They have a limited ability to control their body temperature.

Children’s developing lungs make them vulnerable to air pollution.

Children born in 2020 will face “unprecedented exposure” to extreme weather events even if warming is limited to 1.5C.

“On se croyait plus forts que les lois de la thermodynamique” est #lapireexcuse de Mireille Roddier quant à la planète qu’on laissera à nos enfants. ⚡️ La thermodynamique hors-équilibre nous enseigne qu’un système ouvert, traversé par un flux constant d’énergie, peut s’auto-organiser de manière à diminuer son entropie interne (son état de désordre) et à l’exporter vers son environnement. Cette organisation prend la forme de structures ordonnées dites “dissipatives,” telles que des cellules vivantes, les écosystèmes, la Terre, ou un cyclone (Prigogine). Comme tout système complexe, une structure dissipative contient des sous-structures pour lesquelles elle sert d’environnement—un être vivant sert d’environnement à des écosystèmes de bactéries.

Pourquoi le comportement de Donald Trump n'est pas seulement alarmant – il est clinique…

A common pesticide can increase children’s risk of poor brain development and motor skills Kids exposed to chlorpyrifos while in the womb have altered neuron development and lower blood flow to their brains This can cause problems with motor skills among children

The author of Empire of AI: Inside the Reckless Race for Total Domination discusses the cost of Big Tech’s huge investment in technologies that may do more harm than good

When a small Swedish town discovered their drinking water contained extremely high levels of Pfas, they had no idea what it would mean for their health and their children’s future

Repeatedly mass infecting kids with COVID is not a public health strategy. It's a fast pass to declining population health