San Francisco Chronicle - (Sunday)
Monitor dialysis centers
The planet is heating up? Electric cars! Yea, a way out! Go electric! Always looking for the easy fix. To get electricity to charge cars, you dam more rivers. When you dam, you reduce habitats and the life relations in healthy rivers. To sacrifice another river so humans can electrify cars and a billion other mostly trivial things continues the disconnect with the planet where we actually live.
We’re like the man who walked into a kingdom, killed the king and married the queen without knowing the king was his father and the queen his mother. Though he physically stood in the kingdom, he didn’t live in proper relationship with anything.
The only thing that will “fix global warming” is something of a longer rhythm, something that starts and ends by dignifying the Earth and its life community, by getting in step with them. That’s the revolution.
Regarding “Don’t put dialysis patients at risk” (Editorial, Aug. 31): What neither your editorial nor the election materials for Proposition 29 tell us is that the leading cause of death in dialysis centers is not kidney failure but infection. The second leading cause of death is cardiac events which are related to inflammation and so, possibly, infection.
It has been reported as well that patients in dialysis centers in Europe have a longer life expectancy than those in America. Why has the state not investigated and set up protocols
California is pushing to make electric vehicles more widespread. But driving more electric cars has side effects and won’t solve climate change by itself.
to cut infection rates? Many of these deaths are preventable.
As you point out, Medicare and Medi-Cal pay for most dialysis treatments and they are in turn paid for by our taxes. We have a right to demand better results.
Vladimir Putin, looks inward, is isolated and fixated on creating a past that never existed, no matter how many die.