It appears very unusual to a lot of people when they saw Joseph Massaquoi and Emmanuel Korkollie gathering plastics in the streets of Gbarnga soon Monday morning.
Depleted uranium had been used during major conflicts in the past decades, including the two Gulf Wars. Shockingly, about 1,000 to 2,000 tons were used in the Second Gulf War alone – a conflict [.]
Although commercial entities can contribute positively to health and society there
is growing evidence that the products and practices of some commercial actors notably
the largest transnational corporations are responsible for escalating rates of avoidable
ill health, planetary damage, and social and health inequity; these problems are increasingly
referred to as the commercial determinants of health. The climate emergency, the non-communicable
disease epidemic, and that just four industry sectors (ie, tobacco, ultra-processed
food, fossil fuel, and alcohol) already account for at least a third of global deaths
illustrate the scale and huge economic cost of the problem.