Electronic Waste Dumpsite [Renée C Byer]

"What used to be the pristine waters of the Korle Lagoon in the city of Accra, Ghana, West Africa, is now an electronics dumpsite that is so toxic that neither fish nor worms can survive"

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"Se estima que un agricultor se suicida en la India cada treinta minutos. Durante más de 16 años, más de un cuarto de millón de agricultores se ha quitado la vida por culpa de la desesperación de no poder mantener a sus familias, asegura el Centro de Derechos humanos y Justicia Global (CHRGJ). Y una de las posibles razones de estas elevadas tasas de suicidio es la llegada de los cultivos genéticamente modificados a la India, advierte Smith en una entrevista a RT."

A sweet-tempered dyspeptic [ou a percepção classista da doença]

"While consumptive men represented the pinnacle of overworked artistic genius, consumptive women represented the ideal of a delicate and confined femininity. But this representation was not relegated to the sick bed, or even to the infirm. Througout the 1840s, fashion visibly changed in time with this consumptive ideal."
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Note that the paragraphs above deal specifically with the notion of consumption in the upper classes. For lower class sufferers, the implications of consumption were markedly different. In an 1859 article, James Turnbull emphasized the relationship between consumption and depravity."