[Fwd: The Politics of Cancer]

[Michael Perelman]

Here in Northern California, many of the fish can no longer breed naturally because
of what we have done to the rivers.  The fish have to breed in hatcheries to
survive.

I think that we are moving in the same direction.  The corporations spew out
poisons, and then, as Jim Heartfield observes, they sell us medicines to undo some
of the harm.

We may have longer life expectancy, as he suggests, but, I believe that a 10 year
old does not have a much longer life expectancy than a 10 year old before the
industrial revolution.

Of course, such matters are cyclical, depending on whether we make our comparison
with a period of plague or famine.

--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929

Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu