中国の反日暴動にも困ったもんだ

尖閣列島の国有化　に端を発した今回　2012年9月の中国各地での大暴動

愛国無罪　の安心感もあり　まるで地域の盆踊り気分で　日ごろの憂さ晴らしの中国人も多いことだろう

大暴動の中心の世代は1980年代の反日教育を徹底された人たちのようだ

いかに学校教育が国民性の形成に重要かよくわかる


いちばん日本が頭を悩ますのは・・

　「尖閣には領土の帰属争いは存在しない」 →　「中国の仕掛けた、挑発には乗らない」という日本政府の図式がはたしてこのままでよいのか

ということだ


「尖閣諸島は日本の領土」ということで、日本が国際的なコンセンサスを得ることは最低限　必要だろう


中国人の独占欲が異様に強いことはよく知られている


道を歩いている美女がいれば　指を差して「あれは私の妻だ」と平然と言ってのける、お国柄

そのくらいの図太さと無神経さがないと　13億人がひしめく中国ではやっていけないのだろう



いちばんの迷惑は・・


日本国内でも　いわゆる右翼の発言力が増してくること

中国国内の反日に呼応して、日本でも対中国の強硬派が勢力を拡大してゆくだろう
当分は　うっかり中国への理解と寛容さを示そうものなら、マスコミあげて総攻撃されそうだ

いままでバランス感覚を大切にして左右に揺れうごきながら、絶妙なバランスで国際政治の潮流に舵をとってきた日本外交だったのに　それすら危うくなりそうな中国の、本当に迷惑な勘違いだ

本当に無教養　粗野　というのは怖いものだ

Big Chem,Big Harm? BPAの濫用と人体への深刻な影響

ニューヨーク・タイムズ2012年8月26日の記事から

最近　BPA　ビスフェノールA　による生体への悪影響がかなり懸念されるようになってきたようだ

以前よりBPAは　乳がん、糖尿病、子供の うつ　の原因とみなされてきた

BPAは　なんと90％以上のアメリカ人の　尿から検出されているという
日本人の40％も　BPAを体内に保有している　との別の研究報告もある

BPA　とは　プラスティックの原材料　コンタクトレンズやUVカットのサンスクリーン化粧品、CDや哺乳ビンまでBPAから作られている

ジョニーには信じられないのだが、妊娠中のネズミを使った実験で　BPAにより　子孫に自閉症類似の症状をつくりだすことに成功した　という


さらに　感熱紙としてもBPA　は汎用されていており　深刻な環境破壊にもつながっているのだが
アメリカでは議会でも問題視されていない

どこの国でもロビイストや大企業からの献金や政治的圧力により、タバコ産業同様　BPAへの規制はうやむや　になったままなのだ


BPA　に似た化学物質で環境問題になったのは　水銀による水俣病、ダイオキシンなど




(以下引用)



NEW research is demonstrating that some common chemicals all around us may be even more harmful than previously thought. It seems that they may damage us in ways that are transmitted generation after generation, imperiling not only us but also our descendants.

Yet following the script of Big Tobacco a generation ago, Big Chem has, so far, blocked any serious regulation of these endocrine disruptors, so called because they play havoc with hormones in the body’s endocrine system.

One of the most common and alarming is bisphenol-A, better known as BPA. The failure to regulate it means that it is unavoidable. BPA is found in everything from plastics to canned food to A.T.M. receipts. More than 90 percent of Americans have it in their urine.

Even before the latest research showing multigeneration effects, studies had linked BPA to breast cancer and diabetes, as well as to hyperactivity, aggression and depression in children.

Maybe it seems surprising to read a newspaper column about chemical safety because this isn’t an issue in the presidential campaign or even firmly on the national agenda. It’s not the kind of thing that we in the news media cover much.

Yet the evidence is growing that these are significant threats of a kind that Washington continually fails to protect Americans from. The challenge is that they involve complex science and considerable uncertainty, and the chemical companies − like the tobacco companies before them − create financial incentives to encourage politicians to sit on the fence. So nothing happens.

Yet although industry has, so far, been able to block broad national curbs on BPA, new findings on transgenerational effects may finally put a dent in Big Chem’s lobbying efforts.

One good sign: In late July, a Senate committee, for the first, time passed the Safe Chemicals Act, landmark legislation sponsored by Senator Frank Lautenberg, a New Jersey Democrat, that would begin to regulate the safety of chemicals.

Evidence of transgenerational effects of endocrine disruptors has been growing for a half-dozen years, but it mostly involved higher doses than humans would typically encounter.

Now Endocrinology, a peer-reviewed journal, has published a study measuring the impact of low doses of BPA. The study is devastating for the chemical industry.

Pregnant mice were exposed to BPA at dosages analogous to those humans typically receive. The offspring were less sociable than control mice (using metrics often used to assess an aspect of autism in humans), and various effects were also evident for the next three generations of mice.

The BPA seemed to interfere with the way the animals processed hormones like oxytocin and vasopressin, which affect trust and warm feelings. And while mice are not humans, research on mouse behavior is a standard way to evaluate new drugs or to measure the impact of chemicals.

“It’s scary,” said Jennifer T. Wolstenholme, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Virginia and the lead author of the report. She said that the researchers found behaviors in BPA-exposed mice and their descendants that may parallel autism spectrum disorder or attention deficit disorder in humans.

Emilie Rissman, a co-author who is professor of biochemistry and molecular genetics at University of Virginia Medical School, noted that BPA doesn’t cause mutations in DNA. Rather, the impact is “epigenetic” − one of the hot concepts in biology these days − meaning that changes are transmitted not in DNA but by affecting the way genes are turned on and off.

In effect, this is a bit like evolution through transmission of acquired characteristics − the theory of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, the 19th-century scientist whom high school science classes make fun of as a foil to Charles Darwin. In epigenetics, Lamarck lives.

“These results at low doses add profoundly to concerns about endocrine disruptors,” said John Peterson Myers, chief scientist at Environmental Health Sciences. “It’s going to be harder than just eliminating exposure to one generation.”

The National Institutes of Health is concerned enough that it expects to make transgenerational impacts of endocrine disruptors a priority for research funding, according to a spokeswoman, Robin Mackar.

Like a lot of Americans, I used to be skeptical of risks from chemicals like endocrine disruptors that are all around us. What could be safer than canned food? I figured that opposition came from tree-hugging Luddites prone to conspiracy theories.

Yet, a few years ago, I began to read the peer-reviewed journal articles, and it became obvious that the opposition to endocrine disruptors is led by toxicologists, endocrinologists, urologists and pediatricians. These are serious scientists, yet they don’t often have the ear of politicians or journalists.

I’m hoping these new studies can help vault the issue onto the national stage. Threats to us need to be addressed, even if they come not from Iranian nuclear weapons, but from things as banal as canned soup and A.T.M. receipts.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/opinion/sunday/kristof-big-chem-big-harm.html


disruptor　destruction thing

havoc heavy damage

sit on the fence　remain a neutral on a topic