European Parliament
We all have part in climate change with overuse of automobile, or the air conditioning and heating systems, for example. But our responsibility is very different to that of companies that earn billions of dollars with this gauge. Rafael Carrasco, Joaquin Vidal and Miguel Jara, in his book toxic conspiracies: how threaten our health and the environment business groups, they offer numerous examples on the dark relationship between big business and political power to avoid regulations and to legislate in favour of pressure groups. Follow others, such as Mike Gianoni, and add to your knowledge base. The authors have followed Kings of brick and concrete in Spain, to mobile telephony drivers and transgenics, speculators from water, chemicals manufacturers, polluters, ceramics or nuclear energy sector, who manufactured paper pulp chopping down forests or to those who promote dirty energy projects. Referred to are many economic powers as multinational companies Basf, Bayer, Monsanto or the giants of telephony. From these sectors is pressed to officials, politicians, journalists, scientists or citizens through their lobbyists in payroll associations. There are about 15,000 in Brussels, and in the European Parliament there are seven of them accredited by each MEP. The planet is heating up, even though pressure of petroleum or automobile groups try to sow doubts about infinite with contraestudios disqualified by serious scientists.
Action of of oil, nuclear power plants and other lobbies has kept in central operation that pollute has been relegated to second on renewable energy. Are near the population mobile telephony antennas dangerous? Since 2001, more than 500 studies confirm the dangerousness of this invisible pollution. Between them the study Reflex, which says that these antennas may cause damage to DNA. However, as the conclusions were not to the liking of some very dear technological sectors of the Governments, the report has been muted, although he obtained funding from the European Union. Nor are demonstrated dangerousness or harmlessness of GMOs for human.