In @AbbyMartin's new film, 'Earth's Greatest Enemy,' she exposes how the US military has unleashed death, devastation and more pollution than any other institution in the world on the global populace.
Watch our conversation on YouTube now: https://t.co/IdsNPTLtx1
.@AbbyMartin explains the nexus between the fossil fuel industry and US imperialism. The US military, she describes, is the enforcement arm of global capital.
"The oil companies have a military — and that’s the U.S. military."
Reminder to go touch grass
A scientist in Japan demonstrated that the air inside a forest strengthens your immune system for a full month
The study is incredibly fascinating:
Qing Li, an immunologist at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo, took 12 men on a 3-day forest trip. These were slow walks with no breathing exercises and no set route.
Then he tested their blood and found a surge in natural killer cells -- the immune cells your body uses to fight cancer and virus-infected cells.
Remarkably, the effect didn't fade when they went home, it was still measurable 30 days later.
A control group that walked the same distance through a city showed no change at all.
Pine, cedar, and cypress trees release compounds called phytoncides to defend themselves from insects and bacteria. You breathe them in, and Li believes they switch your immune cells into high gear.
He estimates one forest walk a month may be enough to keep those cells elevated all year.
The best medicine might not even need a prescription -- just a walk among the trees.
BREAKING: New York City recorded the fewest shootings, shooting victims, and murders in recorded history through the first seven months of the year.
Overall major crime fell 12.7% in July, declined across all seven major crime categories, and dropped in every borough, according to newly released NYPD data.