eighty-nine nations after many many years has actually succeeded in getting
a new treaty all two hundred forty one nations of u_n_ sanctions have signed
onto a new treaty to control mercury emissions and to control mercury
pollution in the world at mercury is extremely toxic it gets out of the
atmosphere through coal-fired power plants it's also used heavily by mining
especially small small-scale miners in developing countries
these people are you know that they its use to process the golden then it goes
out an industry don't is a waste and mercury
bioaccumulation streams and if you in just a minute
if any to get into your system it stays there and if you're late parent a mother
it actually then gets passed on to your children it by a team leads at the food
chain that's white pregnant women young women and uh... children are told not to
be tuna fish because he fish has heightened mercury contamination
especially a predator fish and resident yes it's going to get it goes up and
watching naam k
any idea when mike with the internet is extremely high and mercury defining some
better way up the charts
and because it's neurological damage in developing uh... fetuses and in small
children so it has a balance right anymore
that's true that's true as well and this is this actually up reading deal when
you look at the impact
of mercury
this sad study that was done by the european union they they look at at the
exposure so we have a four thousand residents in seventeen countries of the
last two years they found mercury levels and one third of the testing to be about
the amount that is considered
we know that there is that under a logical link to it it suggests that
there's a causal like um... i think that that is actually probably more than just
a suggestion that i think they're defining it to be at huge impacts of
this is actually a big deal my question is you know what will it ever pass and
get right fight in the u_s_ senate
expressed relief
and i think i'm going to happen we providing the
fillings nineteen for so long handicapping where they don't hasn't
emerged and filling anymore because i've been a debate if you ever happened
and then they say it's already and then we have sa long range yes it's migrants
incredibly tough time concessions
yet that's what i would ask your dad this is um... it took us quite a while
to understand the danger of the mercury pose as it is not what some of the
earlier examples including the fact that was used to shape acts leading to the
uh... the development of prisoners at ur which i have
the other server is like that
until we get a story a couple weeks ago and how it's possible that allege
poisoning over the course of the development of person
leads to more violent behavior later on in life to something that we we know on
some level the lead is bad for you we know the sort of um... behavioral
effects that could have and they'll mercury just from burning coal and
things like that is is accumulating in areas that are possibly nowhere near the
actual you have there are you finding all of the stuff up in the arctic as
well the animal part car plants up in the arctic
and yes everybody has forced me no and strengthen the to someone and have let
you know the cities
they're finding in nineteen s mounts in the arctic defining a high mercury
levels of personnel service one as well
this impacts that we have from coal-fired power plants that you know
one of the other things that this study came up with was
coal-burning just the burning of coal is responsible for twenty four percent of
mercury emissions globally
if we can't just say i don't know shut down all the coal-fired power plants and
shut down the mercury pollution it comes directly from this coal fired power
plants that would take care of twenty four percent of the mercury pollution in
the world
that's a really big deal that we could actually
knew they need all that much yeah on that i don't see a lot of television
commercials meal states clean
now in place rights america not even did they have obama talking about cole
for the debates of the reasons i love it
with rounding
and they could be more fighting with each other to see who can talk more than
most positive language about cole
uh... so unfortunately another's another everywhere i'm not sure that obama's
who'd be willing to do much creativity there is the below mentioned it would
depend i think on on how much of on is willing to fight for it because it does
seem to be the same in wishes action in the senate if he actually comes out
and makes a push for it i don't know how much
energy has for that based on everything else that's been that has to happen
ministry but you know it's it's a big deal because we know that echo park are
planned students and we know that it's affecting everything right here is now
contaminating all lakes and rivers in the united states