Matters of Scale.

• Position: Chemicals and health - Illustration

MATTERS OF SCALE CHEMICAL WARFARE Maximum safe level of perchlorate, the main ingredient of rocket and missile fuel, in drinking water 0.03 MICROGRAMS PER KG OF BODY WEIGH Perchlorate found in leafy vegetables grown in California with irrigation water contaminated by leaks or dumping from military cntractors 4,490.00 MICROGRAMS PER KG OF PRODUCE Total weight of chemical weapons in Iraq before the 2003 war, as estimated by the American Federation of Scientists 3,850 TONS Total weight of just six of the most dangerous pesticides at larges in the global environment 7,000,000 TONS People killed by Iraqi chemical weapons in the six-year period preceding the 2003 U.S. War on Iraq 0 People killed by pesticides, as estimated by the World Health Organization, during the same six-year period OVER 1,000,000 Number of deaths in the United States each year for which death certificates list the cause of death as air pollution 0 Number of U.S. death actually caused by air pollution, as estimated by the Harvard School of Public Health 60,000 Projected increase in the world's population between...