Mortality Rates

 

 

Among NASA's non-space-related inventions are the Dustbuster, scratch-resistant glasses lenses, athletic cooling fabrics, memory foam, and even elements of the modern laptop including fan-based cooling and a full-sized keyboard.

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The decision to scuttle the six-decade-old aircraft carrier “Sao Paulo” came after Brazilian authorities had tried in vain to find a port willing to welcome the vessel.
Though defense officials said they would sink the vessel in the “safest area”, environmentalists attacked the decision, saying the warship contained tonnes of asbestos, heavy metals and other toxic materials that could leach into the water and pollute the marine food chain. The NGO Shipbreaking Platform – a coalition of environmental, labor, and human rights organizations – had described Brazil’s planned sinking of the Sao Paulo as potentially a “state-sponsored environmental crime”.

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According to 'Wired,' as many as 60 percent of millennials are willing to pay more for truly sustainable products; two-thirds of people are more likely to work for a company with strong and meaningful environmental policies; and research by Amazon has found that as many as 83 percent of investors want to invest in more sustainable startups.

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Mortality Rates

A study on peacetime mortality rates shows the military is a safer place to be than civilian life.

Soldiers overall die at a rate of 109 per 100,000, while comparable civilians die at a rate of 215 per 100,000.

The greatest disparity was for homicides, almost six times less common among soldiers than civilians, followed by smaller Army rates of deaths caused by disease and suicide.

The most striking difference was among black men, who died in homicides almost 12 times less often in the Army than in the population at large. The homicide rate among black soldiers was nine per 100,000, compared with 100 per 100,000 for black civilians, said lead author Joseph Rothberg.

For perspective, in the United States, the fatality rate for the fishing industry in 1996 was 16 times higher than for fire-fighting or police work and 40 times the national average.