Mayo Clinic and Endgame and You
by Richard Oxman

My friend, Boojum Cir, an investigative journalist of the first order, informs me that…he could hardly stop laughing…and crying…following the viewing of a national tv segment centered on a U.S. citizen who overcame melanoma…in time to take part in his daughter’s wedding.

The punch line, says Boojum, is to be found in the fact that the National Institutes of Health –where he was tended to by a prestigious Dr. Rosenberg (all decked out in immaculate hospital research whites)– is located in Bethesda, Maryland.

What’s sad and funny about that?

Well, Montgomery County, Bethesda’s own, has one of the highest cancer risks from outdoor air, according to New York City’s Environmental Defense authorities. And if you plug in the zip codes for Montgomery County and Olmsted County (home to the prestigious, world famous Mayo Clinic of Rochester, Minnesota…similarly full of immaculate research white on white fashion) at www.environmentaldefense.org …you’ll find that Montgomery County also rates as one of the “Dirtiest/Worst Counties” in the U.S. for toxic releases to the environment.

The Mayo Clinic’s county doesn’t score much better than Montgomery County, by the way, in the category of “Cancer Risk from Outdoor Air.”

Cancer specialty centers housed in Cancer Cluster Bomb Alleys? Ironic?

This is the kind of thing that Derrick Jensen is talking about when he says that your “neighbors” (and you?) are insane. This is part of the reason readers need to get with…reading carefully what’s in the two volumes of the recently released Endgame*.

Why the actions urged by DJ there need to be embraced by a (very small) core group of activists. Why readers who can’t get themselves to participate in the more dangerous ventures delineated therein get proactive with getting Derrick’s work purchased by every library in the land.

*Even reviewers who are “supporters” of DJ’s theses miss the thrust of what must be done, and –too often– have gratuitously praised Endgame with mere token tributes.
It’s all over otherwise. Horribly sad. Not funny. True.

It is all over. Get to work…like Boojum Cir…as per Endgame...anonymously.

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