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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DoRi M.
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3 for EJ from an asthmatic!
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DoRi M.
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3 for EJ from an asthmatic!
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Emory Moose
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If we don't do something now, we're doomed!! WE are better than this people!! Put pressure on the one's that are causing it! We all have to live together!
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Anonymous
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Clean air is vital for our survival. I have seen what pollution has done to my husband and children who have breathing problems. Our whole way of life is affected by the pollution that is pumped into the air by these corporations who think only of their bottom line.
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Anonymous
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Clean air is vital for our survival. I have seen what pollution has done to my husband and children who have breathing problems. Our whole way of life is affected by the pollution that is pumped into the air by these corporations who think only of their bottom line.
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Ken
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Earth-Jusiice
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adene katzenmeyer
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Earth Justice is saving the planet.
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TedBH
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We need clean air so we can breathe. Earthjustice is not dodging pollution, buut fighting it.
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adene katzenmeyer
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I vote for earth justice
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Sean R. Sullivan
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Yeah!
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adene katzenmeyer
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I vote for Earth justice
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Richard Levine
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I'm a 63-year-old lifelong runner. About five years ago, I developed what I was originally told was "exercise induced asthma." At this year's annual exam I told my doctor that most of the runners my age that I knew now had developed asthma. She said that she and many of her colleagues are seeing this and that they believe it's from all the pollutants in the air.
So if we're not getting as much oxygen as poisons that have already done damage to our lungs, what's next -- runner's lung cancer?
Richard Levine
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kasia14
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About time they should pay!! Then maybe our kids would play outside instead of playing video games. We I was a kid we HAD to play outside and I loved it (and still do with my dogs!).
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Lorna Paisley
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I am retired and have pretty much dedicated my free hours to cleaning up
the earth, including the air.
My hat goes off to Earthjustice -
Lzrdoc
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Keep up advocating for those of us and our children who would like to be able to live on a habitable planet.
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Doug Depue
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Ways must be found and implemented to completely eliminate air pollution.
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Lynne Latham
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We need more companies to be as interested in the future of our planet as is Earthjustice. Thank you for all that you do to make a difference in the world.
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Elizabeth Thomas
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Earthjustice is so important in helping to save our earth & thus humankind.
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Anonymous
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thanks for all you do
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Jean Winton
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We all need clean air - you big polluters need it too - so do your kids.
If you care - if you dare - you can give us all clean air!