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To: RealMuLan who wrote (87538)	10/1/2008 6:24:39 PM
From: benwood	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

"human being can adept to the change of the nature quite well" It's not Nature, but Man which is the problem in nature. The toxic chemicals, water borne, airborne, and impregnated in food, that cause the problem It doesn't kill 100% instantly; instead, the impurities elevate the risk of cell mutation that can lead to tumors and cancers and then those kill you. For every single age group, in China, the US, or wherever, a human population group exposed to the chemicals will, on the average, have a shorter life. Given 1.2+ billion Chinese, you can have 100% live in the worst part of the country and still have some push past 90. If you understand statistics and how a distribution curve works, you also understand why that is possible, and why it is highly probably that far more would have been alive had they not been so exposed. e.g. you can find life smokers who push past 90, but that vast majority pushed past daisies in their 50s and 60s. In China, today, it's the teens who've been exposed their entire lives. Based on what has happened in other countries, the results of that heavy exposure won't show up in force for another ten years in all likelihood, and when it does, it will be in force. I suspect that for that 600-800 million living in rural China who average $2/day, they will have zero access to brain surgery and cancer treatments, so the life expectancy will be very short. Here in the US, the manifestations are appearing -- skyrocketing asthma, tumors, Parkinson's, MS. My brother, who has early onset Parkinsons, remembers when he was 8-10 and used to run behind the pesticide spray truck in Oklahoma that drove down our street spraying the curbs and parking strips during the summer.