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Local residents chased away to make room for British tourists in Lapland
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http://www.pollutionissues.co.uk/synthetic-fragrances-environment.html
Indeed as long as a decade ago, several ingredients used in fragrances were the subject of an investigation by the US National Academy of Sciences which labelled them as being on a par with insecticides and solvents in terms of the damage they could do to us.
Related on Pollution Issues...Up to 100 chemicals may be used in an average perfume, most of which are petro-chemicals i.e. derivatives of the petroleum industry with many suspected to be harmful. In 2004, Pat Thomas from the ‘Ecologist’ magazine analysed a typical and well-selling fragrance product, listing the ingredients and possible effects of the chemicals used.
Below we list some of the synthetic fragrances found in many perfume products and cosmetics.
Common Ingredients of Synthetic Fragrances
Alpha-Terpineol: A floral synthetic fragrance, irritating to nasal passages and mucous membranes. Causes disruption of the central nervous system (CNS) and should be in prolonged or repeated contact with the skin.Benzenethanol: A sweet-smelling, floral, rose synthetic fragrance which is irritating to the eyes, skin, and upper respiratory tract. It affects bone marrow, causes CNS disruption, and is classed as carcinogenic. Exposure can damage the immune system, cause excess bleeding and lead to aplastic anaemia, excessive bleeding.
Benzenemethanol: Used as a carrier for other fragrance chemicals, benzenemethanol is a solvent and sweet floral synthetic fragrance. Once again it is irritating to eyes, respiratory tract, and skin, is carcinogenic, and can adversely affect the central nervous system.
Benzyl Acetate: A fruity, floral synthetic fragrance which has been linked to pancreatic cancer and again is an irritant to the airways and eyes.
Benzaldehyde, 4-Hydroxy-3-Methoxy: This synthetic fragrance adds vanilla notes but is a nasty additive which aggravates the throat, mouth, lungs, skin, eyes, and gastrointestinal tract. It causes abdominal pain, nausea and kidney damage, as well as CNS damage.
Cyclopentadecanolide: This is one of the artificial musks which are commonly used as a synthetic fragrance in perfume. It is a known hormone disrupting chemical, a carcinogenic, and irritant.
Ethyl linalool; linalool: This synthetic fragrance adds hints of wonderful-sounding French lavender and bergamot. However its reality is very far from wonderful. It is also commonly used in pesticides, is a narcotic and CNS disrupter.
Eugenol: A synthetic fragrance used as a replacement for clove oil. It can trigger contact dermatitis and irritate the skin, eyes, and airways. It is also used in fungicides, insecticides, and pesticides.
Galaxolide 50: Another of the synthetic musk fragrances, also a hormone disrupting chemical, irritant, and a carcinogen.
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Looking at the present rather than past:
-Three kids
-Spacewagon
-Nice house on a hill in a quiet suburb
-Same employer for ten years
-Same girl for twenty years
-Graying
-Balding
-Hating stupid hippies who lack perspective
-Hating current shallow popular culture selling the same thing all over again
-Having a beer every two months
-...and not even forty yet.
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The first rule: Never google thyself.
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on eye contact:
I had been an assertive pedestrian and cyclist for a decade and thought that my skills were somehow lacking cause I failed to use eye contact that was advocated in many respectful competent cycling advice. Then I read this and stopped worrying:
This eye-contact argument has been repeated endlessly as if there were
meaning to it. For most traffic cycling situations, at least at my
speeds, at the times that it is necessary to decide what another driver
is going to do, typically most of the distances are too great to
determine which way the other driver's eyes are pointed, or there is no
direct line of sight from one set of eyes to the other set. Like so many
others of the instructions prepared by those who know nothing, its
authors have never tested it to see whether or not it works in the real
world of traffic operations.John Forester, MS, PE
Bicycle Transportation Engineer
7585 Church St, Lemon Grove CA 91945
619-644-5481
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Wayne Pein writes in Facebook:
Don't unprotected bicycle drivers deserve the same lane space with buffers as motorists who are protected by crumple zones and air bags?
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American cycle campaigners are obsessed with traffic laws, much more than we are over here.
Spoiled British cyclists don't get it cause they take their right to use the road as granted. Your forefathers fought that right for you in the 1930's (know your history, bro).
In US the fight on-going 1970's -->. That's why the format of the Cali law; default is the motorist view that cyclists should be out of way and exemptions added to that when cyclists have succesfully argued situations when they can't safely stay out of way.
In the continental Northern Europe cyclists generally didn't understand what hit them, when the road rights got canceled.
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Californian law;
Californian cyclist view why that Californian law is wrong:
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Ed, I think everyone can see the pixels in this one.
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