Axios Reports Record Cancer, Misses Elephant in the Room
Nearly one in ten US adults now report a lifetime cancer diagnosis, according to Gallup data highlighted by Axios. They attribute this 'new high' to an aging population and better survival rates. Missing from this convenient narrative is any mention of the 87,000 unregulated chemicals in our environment, the 3,500 new chemicals introduced annually, or the documented links between industrial
pollution, PFAS, and cancer clusters. It's almost as if discussing environmental deregulation's impact on public health would disrupt the comforting illusion that everything is just fine, and we're simply 'living longer' into our inevitable, chemically-induced maladies. So, while Axios focuses on the 'silver lining' of improved longevity, one might wonder: how many of these longer-lived Americans
are simply prolonging their exposure to unchecked industrial toxins, turning our bodies into unwitting chemical waste dumps? The silence on corporate accountability and environmental policy in an article about rising cancer rates speaks volumes about the narratives deemed 'fit to print' versus those conveniently unmentioned.