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)
shared this idea
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Jay Bagwell
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Clean air is critical for our continued survival.
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Peggy Keller
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Earth Justice gets things done with legal impact. Clean air affects every part of life on this planet which we should be taking care of.
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Anonymous
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We need clean air.
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Sarah Thompson
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It's an uphill fight against the rich polluters, and the earth needs a good lawyer!
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Anonymous
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We need clean air.
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Carmen Santiago
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We want clean air. We have to stop the polluters.
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deni mack
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Clean air is cost effective. Think about it.
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ryan muhammad
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We all need clean air to breathe.
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ryan muhammad
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We all need clean air to breathe.
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Marianne
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"Because the Earth needs a good lawyer"
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Linda Durnbaugh
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Earthjustice - Yay!
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Carol
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Earthjustice won't stop until the job of protecting our planet is done!
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Shari Au
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Clean air is critical because everything in the air is dispersed hundreds, thousands of miles onto land, ocean, streams, into our food, into the food that farm animals and fish consume. Polar bears have the highest levels of mercury among planetary animals from eating mercury laden seal, that eat mercury laden fish, that eat mercury laden algae, contaminated by mercury ash dispersed from the air, from streams, in our rain water. Air like water is a high dispersal carrier contaminating communities more than 100 miles, evident in birth abnormality rates in communities more than 100 miles away from nuclear test sites. Anything to mass inform people is helpful.
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rgrillo
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I rely on EarthJustice to keep me informed and active in the top environmental issues of our time.
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beverley abbey
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THANKYOU FOR YOUR DEDICATION TO MOTHER EARTH!
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Billy Stern
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Thank you for your great work protecting our land, air and water!
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Anonymous
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A healthy environment should not be a partisan issue. I don't understand why republicans are dead set against environmental protection. How strange that people can be convinced to vote against their own best interests.
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Arlene Patoray
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Corporations have polluted and destroyed our planet for years both legally and illegally. Time for the legal system to be used to make those who put profits ahead of the protection and conservation of the finite resources we have left accountable and responsible for their actions. The earth does indeed need a good lawyer like Earthjustice.
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KIm Young
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Clean air is simply a must for everyone!!!
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Peter
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There is no such a thing as too much clean air. Would you ever believe anyone who told not to breathe so much? That its ok to breathe toxic filth? But we get told that all the time...just relax those clean air regulations. And that's why we need earthjustice to go into to court and say no, no, and no again until the message finally sinks in.