Recent revelations from the ongoing James Hardie asbestos saga has fired up Scrubba Dub Dub to take a quick overview on where the damage has been done.Just like Dupont's profitable contribution to destroying the world by inventing CFC's that continue to destroy large tracts of our ozone layer, James Hardie along with relative minor player CSR managed to spread asbestos across our beautiful planet, setting of a potential time bomb of immense proportions.
From WWII to the 1960's a large proportion of Australian Homes were built using the tough and fire-proof wonder product "fibro" which as we all now know was not so tough and made from deadly lung-cancer causing asbestos.
In Sydney alone nearly 200,000 homes were built using this poison, in an area now known as the "fibro-belt" stretching from Bankstown to St.Marys. Check out my approximate asbestos map above to get an idea of the size of the problem.
The harsh reality is that the baring down of time means homes in this toxic belt are falling apart, and as is widely known, falling apart means a slow splintering and crumbling which releases asbestos fibres onto the surrounding winds. A similar story is played out across cities large and small across Australia and indeed around many parts of the world.
Something that hardly rates a mention in Australia's corporate media is that each and everyone of these properties will increasingly become less than worthless, and in fact selling one amounts to nothing less than passing on the ticking time-bomb. Selling one to a young family with children should be immediately banned, and bringing children into these suburban areas at all should be considered the height of negligence and running very close to abuse.
But you wont hear anything about this from the real estate agent slime who will be happy to take their % conscience free from anything that moves on the sacrosanct market. And NSW has a major web of corruption permeating local councils and the state government, so it is extremely doubtful that anything will be seriously done to address the issue.
Scrubba dub dub says STAY AWAY FROM THE AREA!
Can anyone produce similar maps of your local area??
