Minamata disease by https://padlet.com/kennethprice/dhtminshvz3j kyle price en-us 2017-05-10 15:10:18 UTC 2017-07-19 14:23:09 UTC hello@padlet.com What is the problem? kennethprice https://padlet.com/kennethprice/dhtminshvz3j/wish/171035528 Minamata disease, is a neurological syndrome caused by severe mercury poisoning. Symptoms include ataxia, numbness in the hands and feet, general muscle weakness, narrowing of the field of vision and damage to hearing and speech
First discovered in Japan in1956 becasuse of mercury being dumped into public water
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  • it is a neurological syndrome that results from industrial pollution and environmental contamination.

  • It means that poisoning with the pollutant has an effect on the central nervous system. The specific pollutant responsible for this condition is methyl-mercury.

  • Minamata disease is caused through the absorption of methyl mercury into the body through various environmental sources, primarily through seafood.

  • Severe uncontrollable tremors

  • Loss of motor control are some of many health effects that occurl

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  • Students of the university of Tokyo have taken an interest in this problem and are coming up with plans to stop this from continuing from happening.

  • Chisso factory however is the company who is to blame from this disease. 

  • Since 1960 there have been hundreds of cases from the people of Japan that have suffered from this disease.

  • Chisso however, refused to acknowledge their fault and insisting on the payment of “sympathy money” instead of full compensation to victims. The criteria for victims to receive sympathy money from Chisso under the Mimaikin Agreements was extremely stringent, and accessed entirely by representatives approved by Chisso

    • ]]>     2017-05-10 15:17:57 UTC https://padlet.com/kennethprice/dhtminshvz3j/wish/171036542     Policy and Laws kennethprice https://padlet.com/kennethprice/dhtminshvz3j/wish/171036820
  • The government has done little about the minamata disease 
  • The Chisso factor pays settlement for people instead of paying full amounts of money and does not take full responceibility for not cleaning thw water and not making it safe for the people of Japan.

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  • Various measures have been taken to deal with Minamata disease, including environmental pollution control, treatment for patients, and promotion of research activities. 

  • people who were not certified as patients have filed suits against the Japanese Government and local government challenging the diagnostic criteria. 
    • The Japanese Government, patients and their supporters reached an agreement in 1996, and Minamata disease legal issues were finally resolved, 40 years after the outbreak
    ]]>     2017-05-10 15:20:12 UTC https://padlet.com/kennethprice/dhtminshvz3j/wish/171037150     Sustainability Solution kennethprice https://padlet.com/kennethprice/dhtminshvz3j/wish/171037938 My sustainability solution is to regulate the water. By not letting the the company have control of the water anymore, it would automatically stop the dumping of mercury in the water. Many people use this for fishing, bathing, washing clothes and many other everyday uses. After regulating the water and seeing what goes into it, the next step would be to have government officials cleaning up the already contaminated water. They would wipe out all the dead and diseased fish and wildlife and replace them with relocated and healthy wildlife. To complete this job it would take hundreds of government certified scientists and volunteers as well. Tools would be handled by the government and the company that is responsible for polluting the water. The goal would be at the end of every year for a 3 year period to have the fish, wildlife to be increased by 33% and have the mercury content decreased by 75%.]]> 2017-05-10 15:22:49 UTC https://padlet.com/kennethprice/dhtminshvz3j/wish/171037938 What did society learn. kennethprice https://padlet.com/kennethprice/dhtminshvz3j/wish/171038959 The people of Kumamoto prefecture, Japan learned that the city focuses on the reconstruction and recovery of social inclusion, environmental conservation and the promotion of cultural and spiritual heritage. Minamata has used the neighborhood study method, Jimotogaku, and a people-centered vision to convert a city famous for industrial pollution and an ongoing environmental disaster into a model environmental city. ]]> 2017-05-10 15:26:03 UTC https://padlet.com/kennethprice/dhtminshvz3j/wish/171038959 Citation kennethprice https://padlet.com/kennethprice/dhtminshvz3j/wish/171040546 http://www.resilience.org/stories/2013-06-28/learning-from-minamata-creating-high-level-well-being-for-local-communities-in-japan/
    www.minamata195651.jp/pdf/English/manabu_all_en.pdf
    www.bu.edu/sustainability/minamata-disease/
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7734058
    www.soshisha.org/english/10tishiki_e/10chisiki_3_e.pdf]]>     2017-05-10 15:31:05 UTC https://padlet.com/kennethprice/dhtminshvz3j/wish/171040546