"Industrialized countries have disproportionately more cancers than countries with little or no industry (after adjusting for age and population size). One half of all the world's cancers occur in people living in industrialized countries, even though we are only one-fifth of the world's population. Closely tracking industrialization are breast cancer rates, which are highest in North America and northern Europe, intermediate in southern Europe and Latin America, and lowest in Asia and Africa."

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Source : "Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment". Book by Sandra Steingraber, 1997.

Sandra Steingraber

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“People generally don't suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer from PTSD after moral atrocities. Soldiers who've endured the depraved world of combat experience their own symptoms. Trauma is an expulsive cataclysm of the soul.”
“Sense of humor is important in life, not just in clothing. How boring to live a life in beige.”

Source : "Parking in the Meatpacking: Johnny Pigozzi". Interview with Colleen Nika, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 3, 2010.
“It is observed at sea that men are never so much disposed to grumble and mutiny as when least employed. Hence an old captain, when there was nothing else to do, would issue the order to "scour the anchor.”
“See me looking like Atlas, when he handle the globe. I see you looking like Alice, Wonderland is your home. It makes me wonder if you practice your flow...”
“And it's those who start with why, that have the ability to inspire those around them or find others who inspire them.”
“It doesn't matter what you say [to me] after "even though". I never change my mind. Give it up.”
“I hope you donâ€™t mind my joining you,â€ said Leanne. I minded. After all, sheâ€™d tried to kill me. A girl in a novel would say it was hard to believe, but it wasnâ€™t.”
“I grew up in a household of girls, so I would just pick up naturally what everyone else was doing.”

Source : "From Disney to Dope". Interview with Zack Etheart, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 3, 2015.

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