{"id":46373,"date":"2023-03-30T14:28:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T12:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=46373"},"modified":"2023-03-30T14:28:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T12:28:08","slug":"environment-is-co-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/environment-is-co-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Environment Is Co-Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>When one sprains their ankle or has an aching knee, they might rub a pain gel on the swollen joint \u2013 probably diclofenac (Voltaren) \u2013 one of the world&#8217;s best-selling painkillers. It takes a few years before some of the substance of this gel can be measured in a penguin\u2019s feathers at the South Pole.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Only five percent of the gel, which has little effect, is absorbed by the body. Conversely, 95% of it ends up in rivers and eventually in the world&#8217;s oceans when washed down with sewage. According to pharmacologist Christian Peifer at the Anthroposophy Medicine Research Conference, there isn\u2019t a single place on earth where the painkiller isn\u2019t detectable. When our hand circles over our knee, spreading the gel, our knee becomes the whole earth. In India, sacred cows have been treated with diclofenac. When they\u2019ve died, vultures have eaten them, and then the vultures have died from the effects of ingesting the painkiller. Just as poisoning the environment harms humans, so we harm nature when we ingest and release substances foreign to nature. What is referred to as \u2039environment\u203a is entirely \u2039co-environment\u203a.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translation<\/strong> Eliza Rozeboom<br><strong>Photo<\/strong> Danielle Barnes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When one sprains their ankle or has an aching knee, they might rub a pain gel on the swollen joint \u2013 probably diclofenac (Voltaren) \u2013 one of the world&#8217;s best-selling painkillers. It takes a few years before some of the substance of this gel can be measured in a penguin\u2019s feathers at the South Pole. Only five percent of the gel, which has little effect, is absorbed by the body. Conversely, 95% of it ends up in rivers and eventually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9159,"featured_media":45954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8796,8816],"tags":[11314,8819],"class_list":["post-46373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-column","category-nature","tag-2023-11-en","tag-seeds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}