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Many of the natural areas in Florida are maintained with the use glyphosate. Assumption now is pollution is everywhere.
They roundup the woods? Source?
Baffling neurological illness affects growing number of young adults
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> runoff is over-fertilization of industrialized farmland. And I'd say that the leading cause of that is the increase of world population which necessitates the "industrialized farmland". In other words there's always a balance between more people on this planet vs more wild-life.
partially. Over fertilization, which causes nutrient runoff (by definition wasteful and not cost effective) is not required to grow the amount of food that we grow. Targeted fertilization or erosion control can both mitigate it by reducing waste, saving money and reducing occurance of side effects at the expense of a reduction fertilizer sales worldwide. Tech can help here. See precision agriculture and other related…
Don't think precision agriculture would scale. And even if it would scale, meaning we would theoretically be able to grow a lot more food on a lot less land, it would only mean that we'd grow more food and especially that we'd have even cheaper food. The Jevons paradox is real.
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#103Interesting what happens when doctors no longer work for you, but can only work for the government monopoly.
Private clinics and practices exist in large numbers in Canada. Apparently, they aren't interested in helping.
Private clinics in Canada are not allowed to provide services provided by the government system.
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#104>> But in January, the province of New Brunswick is widely expected to announce that the cluster of cases, first made public last year after a memo was leaked to the media, is the result of misdiagnoses, which have mistakenly grouped unrelated illnesses together. If they want to say that, I think they are obligated to also provide the correct diagnosis. I hate when people say "we know it's not X" without proof and wi…
I'm not sure about this case, but wouldn't it be okay to say something like that if none of the diagnostic criteria for a disease are met?
This is a new mystery disease, there is little known about it. I'd say they need to positively identify a case as something else to say it's not the new thing.
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This is an annoying indirection in this discussion. Doctors working for everyone also means they work for the highest bidder. Remember the tabaco industry in the US and the doctors literally advertising it? How about doctors near areas of chemical spills getting $£€¥ from the companies to keep quiet about them? How about the opioid crisis that has killed thousands of Americans? Yeah. So, if you want to bring up a mis…
You're right, and the worst is that private clinics and practices are allowed in Canada, and they have no interest in getting involved with this.
There are almost no private clinics in Canada
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
partially. Over fertilization, which causes nutrient runoff (by definition wasteful and not cost effective) is not required to grow the amount of food that we grow. Targeted fertilization or erosion control can both mitigate it by reducing waste, saving money and reducing occurance of side effects at the expense of a reduction fertilizer sales worldwide. Tech can help here. See precision agriculture and other related…
Don't think precision agriculture would scale. And even if it would scale, meaning we would theoretically be able to grow a lot more food on a lot less land, it would only mean that we'd grow more food and especially that we'd have even cheaper food. The Jevons paradox is real.
Sure, maybe PA will not scale. But re: over-production and runoff of nutrients, tech can help, as evidenced by small-scale experiments in PA.
There's nothing about PA that guarantees more food from less land. It may. The goal I've seen is same food with less waste.
Like insulating your coffee machine. it doesn't produce more coffee, but it uses less electricity.
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You're right, and the worst is that private clinics and practices are allowed in Canada, and they have no interest in getting involved with this.
There are almost no private clinics in Canada
That is untrue. There are almost a dozen within 30 minutes of where I live.
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Private clinics and practices exist in large numbers in Canada. Apparently, they aren't interested in helping.
Private clinics in Canada are not allowed to provide services provided by the government system. http://canadian-healthcare.org/page6.html
Nope, that is incorrect. They are allowed to provide services that aren't specifically outlawed. Duplicate care is allowed. For example, from your link:
> For example, obtaining an MRI scan in a hospital could require a waiting period of months, whereas it could be obtained much faster in a private clinic.
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There are almost no private clinics in Canada
That is untrue. There are almost a dozen within 30 minutes of where I live.
Please provide links.
Doctors are not able to work in both the public and private systems, they have to choose.
There are a few clinics that provide care entirely outside the public system but since the demand is low they are rare beyond MRI clinics in a few provinces.
But please, send me links to the dozen of private clinics (dont work in the public system) that are 30 mins of where you live.
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You're right, and the worst is that private clinics and practices are allowed in Canada, and they have no interest in getting involved with this.
There are almost no private clinics in Canada
I doubt that's true, and for what its' worth, health care is run by the individual provinces, not the federal government.
At any rate, there are a bunch in Montreal. Here's one: https://www.rocklandmd.com/en/medical-clinic.html Here's another: https://cliniquesmedicaleslacroix.com/en/ You can certainly find more by searching for "[Canadian Place Name] private clinic"
Heck, here's a news article about the Quebec government outsourcing some work to private clinics to clear COVID-related backlogs. For there to be $100M worth of contracts, there must be a decent number of clinics.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/private-clinics-queb...