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To subscribe, E-mail the words . . The corporate decision in 1923 to add toxic lead to gasoline changed the chemistry of planet Earth, particularly the northern hemisphere. In other words, the northern half of the planet now has at least 10 times as much lead in soil and water as it had before the arrival of Europeans in North America. Naturally this translates into contamination of all parts of the ecosystem. In other words, all animals, birds, worms, insects, etc., now carry 100 times as much lead in their bodies as they used to.