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.
AdminSimon A. Nurse
(Admin, Free Range Studios' Youtopia)
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Pete
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Clean air and water for all !
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Anonymous
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Air Polluters need to pay for the damage they do.
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Pamela Clark
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Yes children should be able to breathe free!
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Anonymous
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It is time for every one to recognize that no more time should be wasted with silly denials of the damage done by greedy humans and unknowing people that destroy the earth. We must, each of us, do the right thing and stop using and start re-using so that we can have a future to leave to our children and grandchildren. Stop war, NOW.
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Anonymous
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Evelyn C Lundstrom
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Heather H
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Earthjustice is the Earth's lawyer
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marcia flannery
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time is running out
we need to stand up and fly right
we are part and parcel of our planet, not overlords -
Marianne
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Take back Planet Earth from the corporations who take so much from her and us. We need to move toward this goal of awareness EVERYDAY.
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Marianne
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Take back Planet Earth from the corporations who take so much from her and us. We need to move toward this goal of awareness EVERYDAY.
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Carolyn Uhlenhake Walker
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Hi, as a teacher for many years, I have seen a great increase in the number of children that have asthma. We need to clean up our air, and thus lower the cases of children with asthma.
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Patricia
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Clean air and water are much more valuable than profits. It's time we stand up to these companies who care more about dollars than the health of our children and grandchildren.
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Jim Phillips
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Have all the corporate biggies live down stream from the pollution garbage and see how they like it.
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Antonina Li Castri
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Polluters must be fined and thought of the alternatives.
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Anonymous
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My neighbor runs a gasoline driven leaf blower everyday (sometimes twice a day), rain or shine.....I am not kidding, which makes my life as an Asthma sufferer difficult. Clean air needs to start at home as well as with industry polluters.
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Helenrose
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if we don't try and save ourselves and the future for our children we are guilty of the sin of omission
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rob swift
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Just do it for all beings here now and you do it for all to come.
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Anonymous
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The air at the busy intersection by my house makes me ill whenever I get stuck sitting at the light. We all need clean air!
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Anonymous
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We need to move forward now!!
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Anonymous
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This world belongs to all of us. We cannot continue to allow companies to pollute for their own profits and then walk away from the costs of cleanup. They make the money and we get stuck with the bill, in the form of dirtier air, water and soil.
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Sarah Richards
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Profits and power matter more than CLEAN AIR and a HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT??? I don't think so!!!! Thank you EarthJustice!!!