From Keila Torres Ocasio, Connecticut Post:
Adults in the city have nearly double the rates of asthma, diabetes and obesity as adults statewide, according to a recently completed study conducted by the city.
In particular, residents of the East Side and East End–the 06608 and 06607 ZIP codes, respectively–had the highest rates of chronic diseases in the city, while those living in the Upper East Side, Success Village, Treeland and Mill Hill areas of the city, or the 06610 ZIP code, had the lowest rates in most categories.
The Bridgeport CARES survey, conducted last fall, asked 1,707 city residents to answer questions–through door-to-door interviews and by phone–about their health habits and daily lives. The CARES (Community Allied to Reach Health Equity) study is a self-reported survey, as opposed to an epidemiological study based on medical data.
Entire story here.
Don’t blame the UI Company, fault the City and State.
Here are some quick facts about the pollution coming from fossil fuels.
Fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) when burned create carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions that contribute to global warming, and also some air pollutants like nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, volatile organic compounds, etc.
Fossil fuel burning is also responsible for the formation of acid rains, and acid rains are one of the most vicious contributors to environmental pollution, mostly in form of water pollution (acid rains increase the acidity of rivers, lakes and other water bodies).
The fossil fuel that mostly pollutes our planet is coal. Coal, when burned creates large amounts of coal ash. Coal ash is known to have extremely negative impact on air and water pollution.
Fossil fuels also contain some radioactive elements like uranium and thorium so they can also contribute to increased levels of radioactive pollution. These radioactive levels are not to be ignored because one study showed that during 1982 US coal power plants released 155 times as much radioactivity into the atmosphere as the infamous Three Mile Island incident.
*** DON’T DRINK THE WATER, EAT THE FOOD, BREATHE THE AIR! *** DRINK BEER, SMOKE CANNABIS & FORGETABOUTIT ***
“… Adults in the city have nearly double the rates of asthma, diabetes and obesity as adults statewide, according to a recently completed study conducted by the city.
“In particular, residents of the East Side and East End — the 06608 and 06607 ZIP codes, respectively — had the highest rates of chronic diseases in the city, while those living in the Upper East Side, Success Village, Treeland and Mill Hill areas of the city, or the 06610 ZIP code, had the lowest rates in most categories …”
It is very interesting, indeed, that the neighborhoods surrounding the open space, forested areas of the city–the REMINGTON WOODS and BEARDSLEY PARK/FAIRCHILD WHEELER FOREST have the lowest respiratory disease and diabetes rates in the city … Could it be all of the trees–purifying and oxygenating the air–and all of the open space in which to walk, run, play sports, etc., are good for body and soul and keeping Bridgeport healthy?
But aren’t these the same areas where the BRBC and the (green?) Finch Administration are pushing for the creation of highways, housing, and transit-oriented development so we can shuttle Bridgeport workers (“cheap labor,” according TO FCBC President Chris Bruhl) to Stamford Plantation, via the East Side/East End, $350 million Seaview Avenue Corridor and the Remington Arms/Seaview Avenue Train Station? Oh, and don’t forget the I-95-to-Route 8 Seaview Avenue Corridor will also allow thousands of diesel-belching trucks to be cleared off the Stamford-to-Bridgeport labor-transportation route via the Seaview Avenue Corridor link to the Dannel Malloy East End Feeder Barge Port …
Yes; there are great plans for Bridgeport’s future as a “housing hub” and “transit hub”–a plan that will bring plenty of truck and car traffic to all parts of Bridgeport (even the traffic-deprived, over-treed Upper-East Side and Success Village areas), get rid of many thousands of annoying leaf-dropping trees, bring prosperity to many Bridgeport-area respiratory, circulatory, and endocrine disease specialists, and really put the East End and East Side of Bridgeport on the world medical map! (Just think of all of the doctors who will want to practice at Bridgeport Hospital, and Saint V’s, in order to have the opportunity to treat so many respiratory/circulatory, diabetes, and motor vehicle-pedestrian cases/accidents from the neighborhoods along the Seaview Avenue Corridor!)
Yes, this is REGIONALISM and SMART GROWTH/ENVIRONMENTALISM at its best! Let’s really make Bridgeport sick and broke! Promote the development of the Remington Woods–put the Seaview Avenue Corridor through the GE property and plunk a train station for Stamford economic development at the old Remington Arms factory! Let Bridgeport foot the bill in foregone tax base and labor-force maintenance expenses for Stamford, et al.! After all, the people in the suburbs are better and more worthy than us; aren’t they?!
STOP THE DESTRUCTION OF THE REMINGTON WOODS! STOP THE SEAVIEW AVENUE CORRIDOR PROJECT! BRING BACK GE!
The economic and medical evidence indicating a need for a radical rethinking of Bridgeport development policy/planning is there. The Kohut Administration will use that writing on the wall to recreate a truly prosperous, politically powerful, and truly green Bridgeport!
Enough with Regionalism/Smart Growth, Chris Bruhl, Bill Finch, Paul Timpanelli, Nancy DiNardo and brother Sal (both heavily inve$ted in the $eaview Avenue Corridor Project …), as well as those mayoral candidates supporting the FCBC, BRBC, and their subversive development goals for Bridgeport (housing hub/transportation hub).
Bridgeport will not be a second-rate, servant municipality under a Kohut Administration. Industry, jobs, and political power will return to Bridgeport! …
Over 50 percent of our daily electricity use is from coal and it is generated from the Bridgeport plant … and don’t count on any change with that while Obama is still president. Mercury and other bad stuff is still released into the air despite filters installed at that plant. None of that can be good for kids breathing it in, so higher asthma rates are not surprising. Many came to see Obama visiting Bridgeport, but the guy has done nothing for the environment, poverty levels have risen while Obama extends tax cuts for the rich.
Obama, many now say, is a failure in improving our future. He gets an F on the environment, though he would get an A in some areas, like expanding wars. It’s worse, though, Obama is pushing for building nuclear plants again despite the Japanese nuclear meltdown, he wants to expand deep sea oil drilling including protected areas despite the largest oil spill in history recently in Gulf. China will own the next stock boom since it is investing heavily in alternative energy while America is stuck on industrial revolution coal.
We have major catastrophes and Obama is silent on climate change: largest flood in history with Mississippi River, biggest oil spill BP in the Gulf, Katrina, most amount of earthquakes ever, this year. Does Obama say anything about climate change? Forget about it. You can’t blame Obama for everything, some viewers of the TV show say, hey, can you ease up on Obama, he gets such criticism from the right wing. I actually get told that from people who see the TV show. Oh, because the right wing bothers him, I should be quiet? Many parts of the country are getting destroyed. Just look in the paper. Next will be the economy, according to Peter Schiff, who says total collapse is coming. Maybe the May 21 End of the World billboards are true, born-agains put up (like on Fairfield Ave by Ellsworth).
We need to get to the bottom of this whole thing. So today on the TV show, I know you are going to say it’s crazy, but we are looking at the Mayan 2012 calendar and have someone call up from Guatemala to discuss if the end of the world is really coming or not.
Our federal government is spending money like there is no tomorrow. Maybe the Mayan calendar is right and the world will come to an end, or at least as we know it. The global economy may be destroyed by the passing or collision with a meteor due to enter our inner solar system around the end of 2012. The federal government has established many sites around the country (and world) similar to Cheyenne Mountain that would act as survival shelters for our national leaders in the event of a nuclear war or global catastrophe. The majority of us are expendable but democracy will live on. It is our government that is asking us this, “What’s in your wallet?”
Ronin,
Is this asteroid also contributing to the obesity problems or should we blame that on the fossil problem?