tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1470105285304935024.post4723792898768570894..comments2023-10-02T03:40:30.825-04:00Comments on Gas Wells Are Not Our Friends: Are You Living in a Toxic Waste Dump?Peacegirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10098424765852560323noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1470105285304935024.post-45571474380467254422009-06-25T11:28:49.353-04:002009-06-25T11:28:49.353-04:00Sometimes it's hard to imagine what pollution,...Sometimes it's hard to imagine what pollution, like mercury, can actually do.<br />Link to this page:<br />http://www.geocities.com/minoltaphotographyw/williameugenesmith.html to see an image of an outwardly healthy mother bathing her fetal-poisoned 16 year old daughter, Tomoko Uemura, grotesquely deformed, physically crippled and blind since birth due to environmental industrial mercury poisoning in the local Minamata, Japan, water supply.<br /><br />Smith's photos may well be the first environmental pollution photojournalism.<br /><br />For more on the Minimata catastrophe: http://www1.umn.edu/ships/ethics/minamata.htmSPLASHDOWNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13120626640564248971noreply@blogger.com