Environment

Clipped from the 1947 animation short, Modern Guide to Health, promoting general health awareness, from the British government. In 1952, a sulfur-laden smog covered London and was responsible for 4,000 deaths over a two-week period. Dr David Bates was there and recalls this tragedy in an article at http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0CYP/is_12_110/ai_98539833

Dr. Devra L. Davis has researched and written about the October 1948 air pollution tragedy in Donora, Pennsylvania, USA, her hometown. People literally asphyxiated. In a 12-hour period, 18 people died.. Within a month, about 70 people had died. Link to http://www.jhu.edu/jhumag/0603web/smoke.html for more detail.

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Jammin in New York: April 24th, 1992

The Planet is Fine, The People are Fucked

Earth: 4,500,000,000 years
People: 200,000 years

The Earth Has Been Around 22,500 TIMES Longer Than Us

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Foreign Affairs Minister Seyoum Mesfin said it needs urgency to address the issue of climate change as the environment is not a separate sector from other human activities like health, population and economic development.

A panel discussion was held in connection with the Second Earth Day Celebration here Thursday.

Addressing the panel the minister said the security and stability of each nation and all people are in critical situations.
He said changes in agro-ecological conditions adversely affect food production; yields from rain-fed agriculture in some African countries may drop by 50 percent ten years from now.
Seyoum said the prevalence of health threats like malaria, diarrhea, asthma and stroke could increase due to raise in temperature.

Ethiopia has joined the global environment movement as part of the solutions, the minister said.

Agriculture and Rural Development State Minister Dr. Abera Deressa on his part said the government has been taking several initiatives pre and post Copenhagen, among others, mass awareness and climate hearings.

The Climate Change Forum Ethiopia has been established and engaged in a number of initiatives geared towards building collective capacity to adopt and mitigate climate change.

He said PM Meles Zenawi’s leadership and guidance was instrumental in creating awareness and reaffirmed commitment of Ethiopias higher level government officials to fight against climate change.

Dr. Abera said more frequent drought and crop failure results in hunger and conflicts in places where resources are limited.
He said Earth Day 2010 can be a turning point to advance climate change policy energy efficiency, promotion of renewable energy and green jobs globally.

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The late 1960’s proved to be the decisive period for air pollution amelioration efforts. The changes were radical and took place with amazing rapidity. Essentially, the general public itself become aware of and involved in the air pollution question and in the process changed the nature of the anti-pollution movement fundamentally and irrevocably. Public opinion shifted dramatically during the 1960’s. Polls showed that air pollution was a minor problem (number 9 of 10 listed national problems) in 1965 but had become the most important problems in the public mind by 1970 (The New York Times 1969). The new attention on environmentalism was triggered by many events: the publication of Rachael Carson’s influential Silent Spring, Senator Edward Muskie’s 1964 Committee hearings on air pollution around the U.S. and several well publicized ecological disasters. In 1966, some 80 people died in a four-day smog event in the New York City area. Legislation followed closely the wave of public interest. The 1963 Clean Air Act established national policy and set uniform standards for air quality. This was amended by the Air Quality Act of 1967, which set enforcement mandates for the earlier laws and established the National Air Pollution Control Administration that was tasked to enforce air quality standards and administer air pollution research programs. In 1969, the landmark National Environmentalist Protection Act (NEPA) was passed, whose purpose was “restoring and maintaining environmental quality.” It created the Council on Environmental Quality and required the now famous Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), for all important actions affecting the national environment. The EIS quickly became the favored bureaucratic and legal tool in the environmentalist’s kit. The Environmental Quality Act of 1970 created a bureaucracy to enforce environmental laws while the Clean Air Act of 1970 closed the loopholes left by the 1967 act. For more history, read The One-Hundred Year War Against Air Pollution by Walter E. Pittman,
University of West Alabama, available at: http://www.lsus.edu/la/journals/ideology/contents/vol26/onehundredyearwaragainstairpollution.pdf .

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Obama gets voted Smogmaker of ‘07 by DeSmogBlog, hot bodies warm building, and Ctrl+Alt+Autos with three wheels. ZapRoot, helping you go green.

Update:
DeSmogBlog has printed a retraction to their story, that you can see here.
http://www.desmogblog.com/desmogblog-apologizes-to-barack-obama

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