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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Anonymous
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"When will they ever learn, when will they ever learn...." It is time to take back the earth from the polluters of this planet and they won't give it up easily. Go Earthjustice Go!
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Keith Boyd
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Air? Air?! We don't need no stinkin' air!
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michael zurakov
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To borrow a slogan: When you can't breathe nothing else matters.
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Norman Phillips
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All polluters must be held responsible for the damage they do to our communities and our children Dangerous polluting of the air and water we need for survival is a criminal offense and should be prosecuted as such.
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Adam Sloan
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clean air is priceless
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Joanne Hesselink
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If pollution and global warming are not
slowed soon, nothing else will make any difference. ( such as corporate profits) -
Anonymous
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its time that corporations take responsibility for their inpact on the environment.
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BiterZee
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....been fighting since the first Earth Day! Isn't it about time? C'mon! I have a grandchild now. It's about his future and his health and well being.
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Cheryle Streb
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More and more people, especially children, are being diagnosed with asthma. Why? Could it be our air is filthy? In order for us to live, and all life to live, we need clear air. Let's put a stop to countries and industries polluting our air. We need governments that will stand up to the big air polluters and each individual can help by stating their view on demanding clean air.
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Ellie
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We can't live without clean air!
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Ellie
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We can't live without clean air!
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dawn
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What is more important than clear air to breathe?
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Jed Regante
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side with the kids!
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Rachelle VanDerWyst
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Please clean it up!
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Lauren Stone
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I AM FOR CLEAN AIR ALL THE WAY!
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MELINDA PARKE
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WHAT WE NEED ARE MORE PEOPLE WHO THINK ABOUT OTHER SPECIES THAN OURS! WE NEED TO ADDRESS THE PROBLEM OF OVERPOPULATION OF US AND WHAT KIND OF WORLD WE ARE LEAVING TO THOSE WHO SURVIVE US....DO WE REALLY WANT A WORLD POLLUTED BY FOSSIL FUELS AND UNLIVABLE WITHOUT A BREATHING MASK? WE NEED TO MOVE PAST OUR ADDICTIONS TO OIL AND COAL. I DON'T THINK PUSSYFOOTING AROUND A PROBLEM IS THE WAY TO GO, WE NEED OPEN AND DIRECT COMMUNICATION ABOUT THE RAMIFICATIONS OF OUR LACK OF ACTION.
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Edward Dunaj
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If something isn't done now no body will be safe outdoors,especially our kids!
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Lee Ellen Benjamin
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"We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children." Ancient Indian Proverb
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laraine reedy
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If we all don't continue to act each and every day, each one of us in our own small ways in our own worlds, all other problems, political, social, economic, will be moot. We won't be here to have them.
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laraine reedy
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If we all don't continue to act each and every day, each one of us in our own small ways in our own worlds, all other problems, political, social, economic, will be moot. We won't be here to have them.