It’s a work in progress. More hybrid cars are being made and sold, organic food is increasingly popular and “going green” is the thing to do. This of course is good news. Good for the planet and good for us.
Whole Foods Market is purchasing or generating 100 percent of its total national power load from green power sources. Of course with a mission of “Whole Foods, Whole People and Whole Planet” you would expect that kind of environmental leadership.
What is perhaps more surprising, whether out of actual conviction, consumer pressure or corporate peer pressure, is the fact that megacorps like General Electric, Wal-Mart and energy giant BP are taking steps to become more environmentally friendly. Even McDonald’s is dipping its toe in greener water.
Progressive companies such as Patagonia and Starbucks are making green changes for the better. In this issue, we profile how Apple Inc. has been applying its famous design and engineering skills to lead the green revolution in consumer electronics.
But as we are making positive headway in some areas, it’s important to note that the area of traditional healthcare is seriously lagging behind. Not content to maintain their old school ways of prescribing drugs (many with serious or alarming side effects) for all maladies, the pharma-medical establishment is expanding their reach into behaviorial, rather than strictly medical, arenas.
Questionable, if not simply dangerous, “antidepressants” are being dispensed like candy (the sugar kind), with the latest target market being postpartum depression. Even more shameless is the multibillion-dollar-a-year prescription of controlled substance stimulants to children diagnosed with “learning disorders.” Far from being a scientific fact, there is no objective science which confirms that “ADHD” actually exists as a chemical imbalance in the brain. The diagnostic criteria to determine if a child has ADHD was voted on in committee by members of the American Psychiatric Association by a show of hands! The sad news is that, in the U.S. alone, these drugs are prescribed to at least 6 million children. See the article on child drugging for more on this.
So, that’s the good news and the bad news. Consider this a progress report.
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