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IDemo
(16,926 posts)Not sure that having the luck to be geographically located in a region of abundant hydro resources equates to "excelling", especially when the power company has fought tooth and nail against solar and wind.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)Especially when, despite--or because of--having cheap hydroelectric power, they use about twice as much, per capita, as the national average.
LostOne4Ever
(9,267 posts)Yeah, got to agree. I have seen people blown LITERALLY on their butts while filling their cars with gasoline.
Wyoming comes to
Mind reading that lol.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)My grandpappy always used to say that not much snow falls in Wyoming, but a lot blows through there.
newfie11
(8,159 posts)It then lands here in Nebraska
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)I remember a few years ago, at a rest stop on I-80, reading how the wind was necessary for the antelope to survive the winter. It blew enough of the snow away so that they could still feed...
<sigh> Wyoming. Very beautiful, including the sagebrush, but it always seems as if you are driving uphill, with a headwind. Even when you aren't.
newfie11
(8,159 posts)But the only time it isn't a head wind is when it can blow drifting snow across the interstate and close the roads.
Had lots of that with I-80 in the last 3 weeks.
Not complaining as we need the moisture desperately but would love rain now for summer.
Bucky
(53,795 posts)Texas should also get the award for the Goodest Hair
newfie11
(8,159 posts)We (nebraska) has most organic livestock.
I was not aware of that.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)I may be mistaken, but aren't all livestock organic?
newfie11
(8,159 posts)Autumn Colors
(2,379 posts)Look at New England on that bottom map. Every New England state is the highest of some form of cancer.
????
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)I'd say there was a connection.
reACTIONary
(5,749 posts)bluedigger
(17,077 posts)It's just an environmental factor.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Most organic vegetable plots also having highest rate of esophageal cancer - Main.
OTOH, Most organic hogs, most hog waste, Iowa - perfect.
ET Awful
(24,753 posts)I also liked Missouri "Most Ozarks".
krispos42
(49,445 posts)secondvariety
(1,245 posts)Ever the optimist.
Autumn Colors
(2,379 posts)I do transcription for two gastro practices, so that may come in handy somehow...
marmar
(76,981 posts)nt
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)They MAKE the pollutants...we BREATH them and DIE from them. They are also KILLING our beautiful Maple trees. Bummer!
This chart proves those smoke stacks are spewing carcinogens. Outrageous!
LostOne4Ever
(9,267 posts)Texas has highest Co2 emissions AND highest wind power!
unionthug777
(740 posts)i guess i will binge drink and eat corn.
xtraxritical
(3,576 posts)marmar
(76,981 posts)Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)loyalsister
(13,390 posts)we have a mosanto auditorium in the Kit Bond building at MU
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)which seems to be opposite of all the DUI reports in the newspaper.
I found out that there is NO state inter-agency reporting of DUIs..the city cop who pulls you over has no way to know
you got a DUI on the Interstate or county roads previously.
CarrieLynne
(497 posts)tomtharp
(30 posts)As being downwind from all the midwest coal burning power plants and industry I've read New England has enough mercury in the air to lower a kid's IQ 3-5 pt, and the acid rain is killing amphibians. Much as I've read within 5 miles of O'Hare Airport cancer/asthma/leukemia are 60% higher than the Chicago average, and even 20 miles downwind 30% higher. Maybe the most nuke power / toxic waste accidents in IL is partly related to cancer/autism downwind? Only 43 highly contaminated waterways around the great lakes, even the EPA warns: don't eat the fish.
xtraxritical
(3,576 posts)"Don't eat the fish" indeed.
okaawhatever
(9,453 posts)bluedigger
(17,077 posts)Largest delta and fastest declining wetlands are in opposition.
OnionPatch
(6,169 posts)Is that the best they can say for Indiana?
I'm not from Indiana, I just noticed that and thought it was odd.
bluedigger
(17,077 posts)Does Johnny Appleseed's burial place also count as trash?
secondvariety
(1,245 posts)thanks for the fire ants.
Just kidding.
Bucky
(53,795 posts)For that matter, Washington state seems to be getting off pretty easy too
former9thward
(31,798 posts)Many towns in Alaska only accessible by air.
Bucky
(53,795 posts)Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)If they were going to talk about bad stuff, they'd talk about our suicide rate or that we're number one in sexual assaults.
asjr
(10,479 posts)comes from the TN Legislature Republicans mouths!
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)Wisconsin: Highest rate of binge drinking...Gov. Scott Walker, Mahatma Gandhi would have wanted to kick his ass.
Illinois: Most Toxic Waste accidents...Worked in Rockford, Rochelle. Know people who work in Freeport and used to work in Rock Island. Calling them "accidents" is misleading. Like accidentally putting on that shirt, bad idea maybe, accident (?) not really.
Virginia: Most Ammonia in ground water...One of the oldest and largest producers of tobacco in USA, Anhydrous Ammonia is used as a fertilizer for tobacco and other crops (Fun Factoid; exposure of tobacco to ammonia causes it to break down differently when burned, releasing more nicotine [the addictive agent] and more tars [the main lung clogger]; prior to WW1 tobacco addiction was minimal. The introduction of mechanized farming [including the heavy use of fertilizers] and mass produced little packets of pre-rolled cigarettes, aided the explosion of tobacco use. Organically grown tobacco is less addictive. The USA has know this for 50+ years.
Missouri: Yeah lotta Ozarks, can't drive fast.
North Dakota: Grew up there (Minot), fewest EVERYTHING
Idaho: Lowest carbon footprint/lowest public transportation funding...When pass through, didn't see an abundance of people there to need transportation or release carbon.
Colorado : "Avalanches and skinny people" can be read as "trapped in cabin for winter".
Jennicut
(25,415 posts)Do we have a lot of dentists here? New England has some high rates of cancer...wonder why?
Bucky
(53,795 posts)The cancer thing is weird, but it could be an indicator of lower mortality rates in other areas, meaning people who live long enough have gotta die of something eventually... so why not cancer? But, no, I'd think that heart disease is the default equalizer there. Maybe it's a hangover from the older industrial period of the mid 20th C and all the toxins that come with it?
Anyway, this cherry picking sort of fun trivia graphic isn't going to give the kind of overall picture of environmental health hazards, so drawing conclusions based on selective data like this is meaningless. Given the rarity of some of these "worst" stats, all it would take is a single bad snowfall in Idaho to replace Colorado as the most likely place to die in an avalanche accident.
In a related thought, California is the place you're most likely to die in a Bruce Vilanch related accident.
the horror, the horror...
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)then, moving on to kentucky, they join in the cancerfest.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)That's right, male bovine digestive byproduct.
Well, that's our electrifyingly good quality.
I'm shocked.
sakabatou
(42,082 posts)PD Turk
(1,289 posts)Wow. so it would appear that all those acres of organic lentils are causing a lot of sediment pollution in the water. What a shame, when Frank had those same acreages planted with dental floss, there was no such problem there
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)What's wrong with having the most airports per capita? Most places in Alaska you can't drive to. How else are you going to get there? We have to fly to our capitol, for heaven's sakes, unless we want to drive 800 miles and then spend a couple of days on a ferry.
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)TheMightyFavog
(13,770 posts)What do you expect when you get a state populated with people of German, Polish, Czech, and Irish descent?
TheMightyFavog
(13,770 posts)Why does New Hampshire have such a bad asbestos problem? Did they mine/quarry it there or something?
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)The state is huge, there aren't a lot of roads, and people gotta travel somehow.
I'll take the puddlejumper runways over paving the entire state under.