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My mother was right: Too much TV is bad for us

Posted on July 04, 2008

[Another post by Ken Levenson.]I've always known from a young age that watching TV wasn't good for me - I can hear my mother now - but this is getting completely out of hand.As reported by Ian Sample in The Guardian:The rising demand for flat-screen televisions could have a greater impact on global warming than the world's largest coal-fired power stations, a leading environmental scientist warned yesterday.Nitrogen trifluoride or NF3 is a greenhouse gas, and it's used in the manufacture of our flat screen televisions - 4,000 tons of it now annually and projected to double in the next year. ...

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