i was diagnosed with cancer in 2005 the doctors didn't really know what kind of cancer it was or how to treat it. they explained i was part of a growing population of people with hybrid cancers from environmental factors. my tumors were growing aggressively of a danger, as they'd eventually grow over my organs and kill. i became a full time patient. my life only happened in between surgeries, radiation, and experimental drugs. when the doctors told me the cancer was incurable, i knew i had to make a change. i decided to give up the comfort of security and instead travel around the world, investigating environmental pollution in crime and see if i could find other reasons that were leading to these rise and cancer rates. and i got to work on some amazing direct action campaigns. really took me into remote areas. there is pollution everywhere. but aside from the plastics there were

also multinational corporations polluting into local river ways, getting everyone around them sick for profit, and with access to clean water disappearing every day people were fighting back and at the same time i saw that back. com. people were being poisoned by the industries around them. childhood cancer rates are up 6 times the national average. if we can prevent any kids from going through what i've been through, then it's our duty to investigate, find out what's happening and stuff. so i decided to travel to one of the most toxic places in america, florida. mm. mm. ah. i always thought of florida is beaches and disney world. in reality,

one afford his biggest industries and best kept secrets is phosphate money. but for every one ton of usable phosphate, there's 5 times the radio. active rock left behind. florida is still radioactive, that the fountain of youth is closed due to radioactivity. people that work in the mind and live in the mind, we're getting accelerated cancer rates. and in 2011 cancer became the leading cause of death in florida. we noticed a study today by the world health organization that said that long term exposure to radiation, even at low levels, can dramatically increase the risk of dying from cancer. the primer use for phosphate is fertilizer, but it's byproduct, great cancer and the biggest player in his $85000000000.00 industry is mosaic. this fortune 500 company owns over 300000 acres,

which is roughly the size of los angeles. they already have mines in 4 counties and are trying to get into a fit. the mines were 24 hours a day and they mind $16000000.00 tons of thought of a rocket year in order to separate the prostate rock from radioactive elements like iranian mosaic, uses over 70000000 gallons of ground water a day which they take from the rivers used to process the phosphate and then return back to the rivers filled with cancer causing toxins that lead to cancer clusters. all right, and it's cancer causing environmental pollution is permeated by the state. mosaic is self regulated, so they only have to turn in reports for a balanced ph level which allow sam to dump harmful chemicals and toxins into the water without many people noticing mosaic. believe that the solution to pollution is dilution. so they run their water through these outfalls, dump it back into the local creeks and rivers,

which eventually worked its way out to the ocean. and although none of the state or local government for paying any attention when mosaic didn't realize somebody was in 2015, the e p a find mosaic over $2000000000.00 for the mishandling of hazardous waste in louisiana and florida. just last year mosaic agreed to pay nearly killed $1000000000.00 to settle a federal lawsuit, the agreement covering $60000000000.00 pounds of hazardous waste. now the company agreed to clean up operations at 6 florida sites and 2 in louisiana, and claiming mosaic was improperly storing and disposing of chemicals used to make fertilizers. meantime, the e. p. a called the agreement, a major victory for clean water. the music has never addressed these health concerns. instead they use p r to try to look like good neighbors. they sponsor huge music festivals. put $9000000.00 into just photos arena. give money to the local police departments, put on charities and the holidays and can't food drugs. they even sponsor wildlife

events. and as one of the largest landowners and florida their political influence is huge. and mosaic routinely sends representatives out to local elementary schools to helped educate the children on the benefits of mining mosaic, preparing today students for tomorrow's jobs. welcome to arcadia, florida. halfway between orlando in tampa. arcadia sits in dawn valley, and this sleepy agricultural town has become ground 0 for the battle with mosaic. ah. and although their history a phosphate mining is tied with to soda county, there has not been phosphate mind here for over a 100 years. mosaic bought up a bunch of smaller companies and inherited the land that they owned, which was don't for agriculture. so currently mosaic is trying to read zone 14000

acre me from agriculture to phosphate mining. but after watching friends and families get sick and other counties, the residents decided to say, no, i started a facebook group against phosphate, modern soto county. no say not many people are familiar with what those ache is and what, what they do are, you know, what phosphate mining even is very few people that know what mosaic is actually about. they portray themselves to do something and be something that they're really not about. i have a pull up on facebook. 96 percent is again the phosphate mine in desoto county. but we can't allow mosaic to come into de soto county. you know, maybe they'll actually learn that our health is more important than money. on the day the board of county commissioners voted for the reason all the citizens showed

up to have their voices heard and protests like most of them are ranking allows we'll see, to change from agriculture, tier, a tier 2 phosphate mon fioma. there's only history of 400083 point 40 plus or minus acres, land motion for now. hm. so county, florida, 1st county, i believe in history actually say no to mosaic rezoning, bron her or oh,

i love an incredible video tonight. a math of sink hole has opened at the museum new wells facility in mo, very good evening, and thanks for joining us. i'm going to ryan, i'm famous, a jeweler tonight there are reports of millions of gallons of contaminated water now flowing into the florida aquifer. nbc action is your border, cameron, poland, live at the plant. i did i crew that the new whales mosaic plants scrambling to stop the contaminated and radioactive water that's seeping into the florida aquifer . they bought a lot of land, but it's agricultural land. it's not mining land, so they have to get it changed to raise own it. and the people in the county have it said no. meet molly bowen, grandmother of tan, an accidental water activist. molly jumped into this in

2016 after that famous mosaic st. call had contaminated her son's drinking water and well water. mm. molly spent a lot of time in the field doing water tests and then mapping the out falls and all the different waterways that mosaic uses to release their talks. and having grown up in the area, molly is familiar with the all the ways the waters connect. and she keeps track of all the different outfalls mosaic have in the waters. they blend into drawing a direct line from mosaic outfalls down to the charlotte harbor and out to the going well, he's been able to prove over and over with these tests here. excessive levels of contaminants in the water, she hopes this will lead to more water testing and conversations about have a zig and operate more safe. january 1st, 2019. there was some kind of an explosion that the 4 corners my hierarchy. the explanation given was that it was a giant flock of birds,

which we did not buy. so we figured we go take a look at the water ourselves and go get our very 1st water soon. the water looked really weird like it was frozen, or had some sort of top layer on since all of the watershed is connected, we wanted to get water samples from all the different areas to get an idea of what mosaic was putting in the local waters. the local rivers and to see if we could trace it back to a single source. mm . mm mm mm. this, we just pulled out waterway right near mine. we're gonna do a quick phosphate test. over boz urban torture over boats. not very, very smooth berg are strong. we go to work with all the stickers with

home in order, more interested humor, more horrible, to learn a little over all markets with all of it is dark. this goes, this is at least 4. if not, it's even darker. than the darkest color, i think i soon learned you know, it's way. ready over for and that's the one that how the oil and then we drove over to another county about 40 minutes away. and we wanted to check out a place called johnson creek, which is an outfall right underneath of the wind gate might be all we had just seen was called a fluent and a fluid is a proprietary mix of multiple oils that the mining company uses. and one of the

signs of that discharge is heavy thumb. mm. if you look there's, there's little bubbles in the bubbles don't disappear, they turn into the phone. you can see the thumb collecting on the rocks right there . mm. looks like paradise. if you don't look too close, but i have to track it a little bit. you can see the hi may. so i mean it's disgusting. it smells, smells horrible. i just know colors different exposure, like that's newer, this longest k, e, you know, i mean that's been there for weeks that's in there for days. i do

have a little bit of a little bit of a this isn't a flow is coming down directly from the mines and headed directly into the my aca, which is a state preserve. and also a giant river l. look forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings except where such orders a conflict with the 1st law show your identification. we should be very careful about artificial intelligence at the point obviously is to create a truck rather than fear like to take on various job with artificial intelligence. real. somebody with a robot must protect its own existence with

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huh. i think that happened in the world were being done by people who had a great vision of how society can be better than that. great vision is typically the left hemisphere representation is not real. it doesn't take into account any of the complexity of reality. the subtlety of various and complex people, i put them into categories as this lot is bad, we'll get rid of them. you know, and change is an organic, crave says change is an evolution and the opposition is not between the status and

everything must stay the same and everything must be radically changed. the radical change is not the way that kills. mm mm. mm mm interesting. i pointed out that it looks like the phone that was in mosaic, sinkhole. wherever 200000000 gallons of radioactive water spilled into the local aqua. and as a result, cancer and other break defect rates went up a ah

with care we're taking a break from testing the water to try to call mosaic again. ah ah. ringback ah. ringback you've reached your voicemail. i'm sorry, i missed you. please. record your message at the tone when you are finished. hang up or press pound for more options. hi kelly, this is eric crown. i was trying to give you a call. i am working on a documentary about phosphate mining and would love the opportunity to be able to speak with you. okay, we're going to try that phosphate expert for mosaic, towards the phosphate which is sponsored by music or industrial research institute . i was wondering if i could speak to dr. berkey

ah ah. ringback hello. hi, dr. berkey. now this is, this is gary. oh hi, gary, i'm, i'm sorry i'm, but maybe i got misdirected, i think it did, or one and mining and caring, awful death and do this with burns, or they'll just cut down all the trees. this field has been cleared and open so the mind can expand into how the problem is. you start to displace a bunch of animals when you remove their habitats, including the endangered animals, the eastern indigo snake, the gopher, tortoise, the stork, and the box turtle. mm. the law states that if they run into anything of archaeological

importance, like an indian burial ground, they have to stop digging immediately contact the proper authorities and let them take over the airing and according to long time mosaic and play. that's just something you don't do. i don't know a sources to deals ah, servers to your food, distribute sort of bird go for all you know or to be able to walk you through to your groups. installed the washer normal process because both of these blog molder barble therapy. jupiter food bought rather will cheryl thomas to teach them to grow, shoe over your what you do there? don't war terminals, you know. so

a little merchant stop if you stop and pours worker with mostly so a lot of people don't speak up because they will lose their job and working on the drag line excavator and to be the operator of that is one of the highest paid jobs with over 340000 acres already mind in the boat valley region, we, a lot of the locals that have been experiencing cancer and accelerated cancer roads . all have concerns about the amount of radioactive left over. right here is a great example. this is a mind that is no longer active, but they just leave it like that scarred up for every one tiny phosphate that's usable for them. they have 5 times of radioactively slender. and what's left is basically radioactive. uranium late graph, which was it uses to sponsor things like a puzzle, funds of the air kidney mark, use it to make roads. and none of the citizens have any idea and how radio ac get

the ground in. interesting. so many people get cancer sicknesses in the area. the citizens of de soto decided to get geiger counters and test for themselves to find out how radioactive areas really are. and they were shot to find out. they've often been exposed to fukushima level radiation. you can buy iodine pills for radiation, you can actually buy, you know, a radiation rescue kit that's going to have iodine tablets in it. i know this is cold war stuff. this is not stuff we should be living with in today's world. and although we're exposed to lots of different types of radiation, we're talking about ionizing radiation, which is on the more dangerous side of the scale. and if the ionizing radiation will be measuring through the geiger counters, the natural background is around point $22.00. and we are registering around one,

which is about the levels in that light orange here for fukushima. only instead of fukushima, our sample is being taken at a playground with reject rock from mosaic. so at the level we just saw, according to the radiation network, if you were to live here for over 3 months, your chances of getting cancer would increase to one in a 1000. ah mosaic is committed to conducting business in a manner that protects the health and safety of our employees, contractors, customers, and communities. we are relentless in our pursuit of an injury, free work place where i was a structural iron worker and barney, and welding steel. climbing all over, still growing, entered

a man's repairing step, which i would take down the sand headed assange. i think all the contractor then. and then once we got it big in that bottom back up. mm. ah, name is a chronic. bo was a poet, but that's what it is. and i mean, you know, if you inject somebody will polish, it kills him right away. it's gonna kill in some mercy. you know what to me. but just like you give me just a little bit every day for 20 years, you know all that cruel. do you have a lot of friends that you also worked with at the time that also have illness now or have a lot of long problems with cancer problems?

kidney problems are we're trying to point me substantially short. mm. nor for go. you want that jo nationalists but then the table for those little children at home. mm. mm hm. working out for home recently bought was when. mm. probably last page. just a so how many people that you worked with mosaic got cancer or had hit that health with 3 out of 21 visit. that's july. i'll mention that again. but cancer are live or live or failure and stuff like that. most of our younger guys and, and where those major bad is and when it got blue i got laid out so they would

put the dose of meter mad underneath or has that when radiation is going to be filled up. and instead of helping the guys they just go with a while when he got hired and nobody was temporary logic. julie key is daddy's was like too many a is saying mm a year i woke up went to sleep at night like

a what? no, me what kind of intimidation or difficulties did you, did you have with the company was they figured out that you were vocal about what you saw going on. well, you know, i try to get a gag order and i'd like you did a couple times. i just kept out. i didn't have any friends i thought later, but people that they told people not even talk to me if i saw growth in church. said no way. i mean it. i normally do it a little later only, you know, 3 years,

i guess my social lab was with the people that had been told that that got to be my me hey, so far nobody from has called me back no, much in a surprise. we're now going to try to call the main person and so heather natalie and see if we can speak to her today. for right now, are you back again? can you please hang up or press pound for more options. hi heather, my name is eric brown. i am working on a documentary about fussy mining, and i would love to be able to talk to you guys, i'm in town till next week. and i was hoping maybe monday or tuesday. we could sit down and do an interview. and if you think mosaic is only affecting the water in florida, i've got really bad news for you because guess you make your floor. i good

toxic leftovers from mining become hydro. florist was the acid which has been sold to municipalities all across america to be placed into the drinking water. well, they knew as a gas, out of the $54.00 plant evaporation is a policy for gasoline. and they use tiny gray to track those deals. those particles and that is what the hydro or she left a nice or non agitated, where the silica st to the bar and you know people, drake, the standard, you know, there man study after study a harbor because lauren lack you and feel and then course you do

if you drink it may take and you know it's and everything isn't cold beer in grade . anything, it's got water and it is got a big city or apps that are being played with gold. there's so much floor ah. as we continue looking at the here and review in the year ahead bringing in the all star guests from all over the world. we've got a great one today, stacy, it's charles hugh smith. oh, of to mind that ah

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