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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Jody Turner
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As a family of asthmatics and whose mother passed from lung illness I know first hand what it means to not have clean air. Being from lower income marginalized areas means we felt it the most as do many people today. Time has come to release the shame of bad choices, let the blinders lift and move forward. It is the right time to move these ideas into action, everyone has felt the effect and in their heart of hearts, people want to shift. They need pathways, let's help them walk forward and leave behind what no longer works. As a person who has risen from dust, I know we can do this in a large context. I send my full support through vote and personal action in my life. Thank you!
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Anonymous
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All the money saved by cutting corners on environmental affairs won't matter when the planet is uninhabitable. THANK YOU for all you do!
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William Walraven
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Good Luck
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Eden Kennan
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Good work, Earthjustice!
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William Walraven
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Good Luck
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annette bailey
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stop the denial. we only have one planet
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Stop Mountaintop Removal
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Soooo, wouldn't ya' have to be oh let me think......stooopid, not to support this. Stop polluting our world...would ya' do this inside your home...would ya' want your kids to breathe this?? Please stop...please support Earthjustice. Peace!!
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William Walraven
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Good Luck
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janetm
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Great idea and image! Wonderfully playful and ugly at one and the same time. Put me on the kids team!!!
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Eden Kennan
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Good work, Earthjustice!
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michele hale
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We need to do whatever we can.
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William Walraven
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Good Luck
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Ann C. McGill
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From personal experience, water quality will continue to be compromised if we do not do something now.
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Eden Kennan
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Good work, Earthjustice!
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fanny muller
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We must preserve our wild nature it is more than just land it is our Value System that would be challenged . It is a priority in our lives to maintain the right Values for ourselves and the future of our childrens.
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Nancy Hiestand
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Earth Justice is on the side of the people and all living things.
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elizabeth in Texas
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Thanks for standing up for justice for the earth and our environment, which is really standing up for all the human race.
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Faith
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I think corporate America's refusal to be good corporate citizens has become a form of treason. Where is the sense of civic responsibility that world leaders used to have? Damaging the earth in any form is simply irresponsible and unacceptable and worst of all, unnecessary. There is money to clean it up if greed weren't always the motivating factor.
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Ron
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We need you now more than ever!
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Stan Salomon
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Keep up the good work, Earthjustice and hope that you win!