Le Show For The Week Of April 28, 2024
Le Show
Harry Shearer
4.6 • 972 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Here it is. |
| 0:02.0 | From deep inside your audio device of choice. |
| 0:07.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, I've spoken with you before about so-called forever chemicals, so-called forever chemicals so-called because they don't go away. They stay right here, |
| 0:19.4 | around us and in us.'s the latest update on our forever friends ocean waves |
| 0:30.8 | crashing on the world's shores emit more P-F-A-S. |
| 0:38.0 | Those are the chemicals I was referring to a moments ago into the air than the world's industrial |
| 0:44.5 | polluters. That's the Guardian reporting on new research, raising concerns |
| 0:50.8 | about environmental contamination and human exposure along coastlines. |
| 0:57.0 | Yes, stay away from coastlines, apparently is the latest clue. The study measured levels of |
| 1:06.3 | P. F. A. S. released from the bubbles that burst when waves crash spraying |
| 1:11.5 | aerosols into the air. It found sea spray levels were hundreds of thousands of times higher. |
| 1:26.4 | Levels of PfAS, then levels in the water. The contaminated spray likely affects groundwater, surface water, vegetation, and agricultural |
| 1:32.1 | products near coastlines that are vegetation and agricultural products |
| 1:32.8 | near coastlines that are far from industrial sources |
| 1:37.4 | of these chemicals according to Ian Cousins a Stockholm University researcher and lead author of the study. |
| 1:46.0 | Quote, there's evidence that the ocean can be an important source of PfAS air emissions, he said, it's definitely impacting the coastline. |
| 1:57.0 | EPA has limited six forever chemicals in drinking water, but there are 15,000 of them. |
| 2:10.4 | P.FAS are a class of 15,000 chemicals used across dozens of industries to make products resistant to water, stains, and heat. |
| 2:20.0 | Well, those are good things, aren't they? |
| 2:23.0 | Though the compounds are highly effective, they're also linked to cancer, kidney disease, birth defects, |
| 2:27.4 | decreased immunity, liver problems, and a range of other serious diseases. |
| 2:33.0 | They are called Forever Chemicals because they do not naturally break down |
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