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particles we read about in the press. Sometimes the human being is his
Our food is also full of chemicals. own worst enemy, and this is per-
We can try to eat 100% organically, haps the result of our selfishness and
but even here, do we really know if extreme consumerism. It's cheaper
what we are eating is good for our to buy new than to get things re-
health? Acid rain and air ponution paired.
also have implications. The soil has
been contaminated and polluted for However, in all this gloomy news,
decades. There is a serious problem what do we see? More and more
Better late than never... in Europe, we are being told, but people turning into "citizens" and
apparently no politician is willing to starting to do something about the
For years and years, ecologists have talk about it. pollution and environmental degra-
been warning us against the dangers As if this sad news were not enough, dation. They start by changing their
of our modern way of life. The global we also hear that the human body habits, by consuming differently but
temperature is on the rise; the ice in will soon be full of plastic, simply also by walking, cyding etc. In Nor-
the Arctic and Antarctic is melting; because these plastics are also to be way there is even a new concept for
the level of the oceans is rising. The found in our drinking water. business people emerging, for those
climatologists warn us that there will With the Internet, cellphones and who want to have the flavor of good
be more floods and extreme weather. other modern technologies, our old days, where there is no internet,
Up to recently people did not give it bodies are also faced constantly with no power point presentations but
much of a thought, but today, most radiation. We are talking on the simply offices, meeting rooms where
people definitely do. phone, and the cell-phones' electro- people can sit and talk business and
magnetic radiation is so great that where one hears the click click of old
The oceans are filled up with gar- we can develop brain cancer. type writers. It's called Digital Detox,
bage. From time to time we see short Recently the Norwegian National and apparently it's a new concept
video films on Facebook filmed by Health Authorities came out with that's working very well. People are
amateur divers who show the plastic their annual report. For the first time looking for more social interaction,
bottles, bags. A sad sight. since its creation, the report wrote an easier and less complicated life,
Our food is also full of plastic that cancer was the number one kill- so perhaps we do have reason to be
micro entities, and even in freshly ing disease in Norway, wen ahead of optimistic after all...
caught fish one can find these micro heart and cardiovascular illnesses. MARIT