Dodging Pollution: An Underdog Story
Earthjustice - Non-Profit - www.earthjustice.org
Some of the worst air polluters have dodged controls for decades, pumping dirty air that makes playing outside a dangerous game for kids across the U.S. Though 2011 brings unprecedented opportunities to clean up these polluters, only public pressure can counteract the polluter lobby's influence. A humorous video can help: in a dodgeball game between kids and pollution, large men dressed as mercury, soot, and other pollutants hurl dodgeballs labeled with diseases (e.g. asthma ) while kids counter with balls marked "health" and "clean air". The message: join the kids' team to ensure dirty industries don't dodge clean air rules again.
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1171 comments
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Anonymous
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We need kids to get it since the adults don't seem to.
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Michele Shimizu
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We need clean air. That's it!!!
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james riley
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please stop all destruction of are planet
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Anonymous
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Stop destroying the Earth!!!
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Shannen Winfield
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Stop polluting the only world we have!!!
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Professor Rich
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Somewhere around 70,000 people each year in the US die as a direct cause of air pollution. It is also a factor in cardiovascular diseases (such a stroke, COPD and heart disease), asthma, ADHD, cystic fibrosis, and numerous others. It shows that the polluters just don't care about us.
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Alexandra Federov
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Five years of living in the Bronx has given me asthma. Thanks polluters! And no I won't be medicating myself with your counterparts' toxic pharmaceutical cocktails. Thanks!
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R. D. Hawke
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We can live without food for weeks, without water for days but we cannot live without air for more than a few minutes.
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Helena Dworakowski
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The health of America depends on clean air. Let us all Do the right thing!
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Dorothy G. Wilkinson
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Thank you very much, Earthjustice, for legally enforcing what any SANE individual or corporate entity would do without having to be coerced, or even asked to do, in the first place.
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Bambi Kashani
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Fight and educate with humor!
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David Dvorak Jr.
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Keep fighting for our planet!
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Mikanuk "Larry D. Adams"
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We need clean air because that's what not only we but future generations need to survive, as well. If these air polluters continue on their path, as they are now, we will not survive. That's another as well as the most important reason that we need clean air.
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Beverly Jennings
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Thank you Earth Justice. Our beautiful blue planet thanks you too.
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Connie Schneck
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I get so tired of cleaning up after someone who has more money than they know what to do with. What they need to do with it is clean up their messes, but they won't because it would take away from their millions. Big oil and industry are practically running this country. That is another thing we have to put a stop to. When are we as Americans going to pull our heads out of the sand and do what we need to do. If we don't open our eyes, this country will belong to companies not people.
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Vivian Blau
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Yes, we need to go after big business who continues to get away with polluting our air with permits and dirtying our water with national and state permits that allow it while the rest of society pays for the clean up. We need to strengthen the CWA and CAA today!
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Scott Flick commented
We all share,... One Sky, One Land, One Sea! If you wouldnt put it into your mouth,... be careful where and what you do with it!
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Beverly Brewster
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Without air, we die. Without clean air, we just die a slow painful death. That goes for the polluters and their families.
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Tamara Bannister
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We all need air to breathe. It makes sense that the air we breathe should be clean, if nothing else for our health
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Marianna
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the Earth needs clean air - bottom line
