Exposing a toxic US policy.
November 26, 2007
8:00 am
Exposing a toxic US policy. Unlike the European Union, the U.S. doesn't require businesses to minimize toxic risks - or even to list them, so consumers can evaluate the risks. Fresh Air , NPR.
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"Your generation must come to terms with the environment.Your generation must face realities instead of taking refuge in ignorance and evasion of truth. Yours is a grave and a sobering responsibility, but it is also a shining opportunity. You go out into a world where mankind is challenged, as it has never been challenged before, to prove its maturity and its mastery -- not of nature, but of itself. Therein lies our hope and our destiny. In today already walks tomorrow." Rachel Carson, Scripps College Commencement, June 12, 1962
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How is a hunting license like a pollution permit? At the Toxics Action Conference on March 24, 2007, keynote speaker Lois Gibbs compared hunting licenses to the pollution permits that allow corporations to contaminate our air, water, and food. " When you get a hunting license," she noted, " you are limited to certain times and places, and you are never allowed to kill the babies. In contrast, when a corporation gets a permit to pollute from the federal or state government, it is a perpetual toxic release, and our babies are the first and the worst affected ."
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" Can anyone believe it is possible to lay down such a barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called 'insecticides,' but 'biocides .'" ~ Rachel Carson
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