Tag - pollution

Seveso: Zona Infestata

At 12:40 p.m. I was having lunch with my family in the backyard… My wife was making coffee and we feel a beastly stink… I said, let’s go inside, that one can’t resist… Ten days later they say it was dioxin. So we could have died ten times… 

Don’t Breathe the Air on Morningside Heights

Columbia University is planning to activate a nuclear reactor on its New York City campus. It is designed for teaching and research and would not produce power for either the city or the university. Even though it is small, rated at 250 kilowatts, it can be pulsed to 2500 kilowatts. The basic facility was built some...

Under the Green Thumb: Imperialist Uses of Ecology

A number of influential commentators in the United States have recently begun to argue that economic development in the Third World would be incompatible with natural resource conservation and pollution control on a global scale.

Cancer: A Social & Political Problem

Cancer, like many other health problems results in large measure from the environmental and social conditions in which people live. Its solution requires social change, not merely the great American know-how that is advertised as the cure to all our problems. People will have to get together and use their political...