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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Chris
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Starting someplace to challenge the debachle we call EPA works for me.
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Cathy
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I watched a movie once that sure opened my eyes about how corporations felt about these issues. It was called, "The Corporation." Seems they want to privatize everything, including clean air and water. I think that an add attacking that philosophy would go a lot farther than the add your proposing.
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Frank Aaron
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Companies need to step up to the plate and start taking responsibility for their impact on the environment and our lives/health.
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A_Fisher
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Most people and business make decisions on the basis of "cost". In addition to dollars, the much greater longtime cost of dirty air, asthma, and many other medical ailments is immeasurable. It follows that our benefits from cleaning up the dirty air are infinately more than the dollar cost of installing scrubbers or switching to clean renewable power.
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Mats Andren
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clean air, please. stop the lobbying by profit-hungry corporations. go earthjustice!
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Sarah Tiers
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It's difficult to understand how leaders can be irresponsible for the environment when so much evidence is in concerning pollution. If you don't care about yourselves, please consider the children. If you don't care about yourselves, you probably don't care about the children but you are elected to serve the people. Please do it in an honorable way.
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Carol Baldwin
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What will happen if to the earth our home is nothing is done now!
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Berdelle Campbell
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A million thanks for all you guys do.
I`m a big fan of yours. -
Lisa Fenstermacher
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"Because the Earth needs a good lawyer"
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Virginia
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Some days my eyes burn and I have headaches.
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Peter Ayres
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If there are any rights at all for a human being, Air and Water are them.
Everyone deserves clean water and air. -
margaret
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"Because the earth needs a good lawyer."
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D. Susan Tanner
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When there is no fresh air, no clean water and no food that hasn't been altered maybe people will listen. Regardless of belief there is such a thing as too late.
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DEstes
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The simple things in life are the things we should cherish the most. Clean water, air and pollution free planet. If only everyone felt this way.
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Namoo
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Can't live without it, already suffering greatly from the Pollution.
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Donna Hyde
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PLEASE CLEAN THE AIR; WE MESSED IT UP, IT'S OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO CLEAN IT UP.
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Anonymous
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"Because the Earth needs a good lawyer."
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Anonymous
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"Because the Earth needs a good lawyer."
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Anonymous
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We need clean air.
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Bob
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Burning coal puts Asthma patients in Hospitals