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Medical Forum / General / General / April 2007world body of Athletes should join together to ban, boycot the China Olympics due to its Dirty Air, Global Warming
If I were an athlete scheduled to compete in China for the 2008 Olympics, I would refuse to go out of principles. That dirty air and air pollution and global warming which China is not doing anything to solve, is more important for me to make that statement, than to try to win some gold medal in the games. I think all athletes contemplating on going to China for the Olympics, should consider that the principle of making Earth a better place to live for future generations is more important of a statement, then them winning any Olympic medal. So I encourage all athletes slated for China Olympics to boycott them and make the higher statement, that we want cleaner air and cleaner environment for future generations, rather than some athletic medal. Archimedes Plutonium www.iw.net/~a_plutonium whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies > If I were an athlete scheduled to compete in China for the 2008 > Olympics, I would refuse to go out of principles. [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > we want cleaner air and cleaner environment for future generations, > rather than some athletic medal. And also, if I were an athlete, I would boycott all Olympic games scheduled for the United States, until they get serious about Global Warming and actually do something. I would rather be known in the future as someone who helped clean up Earth and made it better, rather than someone who won a medal for running around in dirty air. Archimedes Plutonium www.iw.net/~a_plutonium whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies I have not found the proper terms for what it is that bothers me about the 2008 Olympics held in a place of vast air pollution. Then there was the Los Angeles Olympics in that air polluted mess. But in an age of Global Warming and the need for governments to act, puts the spotlight on China. In summary form we have corporations and industry and governments polluting the world to make money, and who are sponsoring the Olympics and using the Olympics for advertisement to make even more money, and we have the athletes caught in between who have to suffer the air pollution in hopes of winning a medal, while the sponsors make even more money. Something is unsavory about this picture. For we have lost sight of the meaning of the Olympics and it has degenerated into a 4 year commercial plug. And it used to be where the Olympics was a minor forum for political protest or cause, which were often unrelated to the sports events of the games themselves. But now with Global Warming, and air pollution, one would think that the atheletes really have something to protest and to boycott and which is very much related to the sports and games. I mean, why not have the Olympics in the next path of a Katrina like hurricane. Or have the next Olympics in Venice when it is completely underwater. Or the next Olympics in Greenland when all the ice is melted. Or the next winter Olympics in Antarctica since it will be the only natural snow remaining. The point I am making is that commerce and industry is exploiting the Olympics as a money opportunity for which they give athletes a mere spotlight for a few minutes and give them a plated medal for their achievement while the money interests pollute the Earth and expect these athletes to play in this pollution and walk away with even more money. Totally unsavory. If I were an Olympic athelete I would boycott the Beijing games and tell the Olympic Committee that until they find a site on Earth that is healthy enough to play the games and a site where the host country is doing its fair share of halting Global Warming and cleaner planet. That I would not be a pawn for money interests. In past years the Olympics has been a platform for political protest. But in 2008, we have a situation where all the athletes should be in protest, that the Olympics should never have been held in Beijing with its dirty air that threatens the health of atheletes and China which does nothing to halt Global Warming. Somehow I have always felt that the Olympics was connected to a clean and environmental conscious group of people. I felt that the principles of the Olympics were 180 degrees opposite that of global warming violators and Earth polluters. People that celebrate Earth Day or are nature conscious or are Greens or Sierra Club type people would be Olympic type people. But maybe I was wrong on that opinion. Why the Olympic Committee even suggested that a polluted place like Beijing could even be considered a Olympic game site goes to show that money is the only thing that seems to speak to the Committee. And that the creed of the Olympics is now that of money. Why not have the 2012 Olympics in the sewers of Los Angeles in the middle of summer where global warming reaches 40 degrees C. Archimedes Plutonium www.iw.net/~a_plutonium whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies By holding the Olympics in China would be a guinea pig experiment on athletes to see if they can withstand dirty air and still manage to exceed some world records. And of course, whether they succumb to some respiratory disease after the games. The creed of the Olympics is not about money, but about competition and the fairness of competition. And you do not have fairness when you subject atheletes into a dirty environment to conduct their sport. Sports is synonomous to health, and to impose a unhealthy environment on atheletes is not fair to atheletes. Maybe it was inevitable that Global Warming and world polluters would meet and have this fight over the Olympics. That polluters want the Olympic moneys and games. But that atheletes should not be suckers and their health jeopardized. And that atheletes should boycott such games where polluters take advantage of atheletes. Archimedes Plutonium www.iw.net/~a_plutonium whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies Olympics of the past were mostly about money. Today, Olympics should be mostly about sports conducted in a clean and healthy environment. So I ask the Olympic atheletes to join with the Environmental groups throughout the world and to boycott any Olympic games scheduled in countries that pollute this planet more than what they should be polluters. Both China and the USA are Global Warmer Polluters and to boycot the games scheduled in these countries. Are you going to be a sucker and pansy to money interests who make millions from your running around in dirty air, jeopardizing your health, all for a piece of tinsel plated medal. The bigger and more important statement is that when you lived, and was an Olympic Athelete, you made your statement of belief-- you thought the Earth and its Environment was the more important issue rather than some money interest tinsel plated medal. Archimedes Plutonium www.iw.net/~a_plutonium whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies USEFUL DATA LINKS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CO2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_atmosphere http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_pressure http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Density_of_air http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avagadro%27s_number http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_Gas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_effect#Real_greenhouses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_Balance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_vapor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_humidity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_radiation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiative_forcing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortwave_radiation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longwave_radiation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_temperature_and_pressure http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_radiation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_radiation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_radiation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_radiation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_spectrum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiant_energy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_wave http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_conduction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrological_cycle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_dynamics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_law_of_black-body_radiation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan-Boltzmann_law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wien%27s_law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_climate_change http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Atmosphere http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_models http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Standard_Atmosphere http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_sensitivity http://wahiduddin.net/calc/density_altitude.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barometric_formula http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callendar_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_conditions_for_temperature_and_pressure |
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