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Hey! For my Public Health class we're supposed to post this video (2 parts) and see what people's reactions are! It's about the Love Canal incident, where a neighborhood and school playground were built on a toxic waste dump. If you've got a few minutes please leave a comment! Also, here’s a video about what they did to the Aral Sea and how it’s still hurting people.
Mandy I studied this and several other environmental health disasters in my Environmental Policies and Laws class. This in particular is horrific because so many children were impacted. It makes me a little nauseous to think about what else is out there with all of the chemicals we use today
Stephen Wow, that is scary!! It makes me wonder what other areas like that there could be out there that we dont know about!
Jonathan this is part of my major as well, and the event is referenced frequently as one of the highlighting events that lead to the more environmental awareness in the united states
Jonathan Sadly in most instances society does not move unless drastic consequences are felt, and for most environmental issues, this point is usually too late, due to the time delay felt by most environmental ramifications of human activities. The irony to this is that the most effective method of approaching environmental issues is prevention which results in less cost in time and resources than addressing the problem after it has arisen.
Joseph That is some crazy stuff! I feel really bad for those people because although they knew about the chemicals, I don't think ANYONE was expecting that. I think its crazy that there are people that decided to live there even now. I hope that we can prevent problems like this in the future. I also think the people need to be smarter. I wouldn't go anywhere near there after hearing about the past problems.
Sam Man! I knew that there were problems like this happening in the world but I didn't know that it had such a big impact not only for the environment but for people too
Martin that’s just not right, that they knew it was polluted and still built on it. Those people that were affected should get some kind of pain and suffering compensation, they should sue
Rob it’s crazy that stuff like that goes down still. I suppose it was a while ago, and know all you public health people keep people from doing that here, but that’s nuts that they would put people in that situation with toxic goop oozing into their basements and stuff.
Dave Here’s the thing: they get all pissed about them polluting the ground but they told them in the deed that all that crap was in there and they still bought it, so screw the government. The government only ever reacts to problems after they happen. Same with the whole 9-11 thing, they put in all this security now that it’s over but before that we didn’t do anything to prevent. I think for public health people to be really effective they should somehow sever it from the government and its inefficiencies, the only problem is that there’s no money in health care unless people get sick. It all comes down to money, when they say it’s the root of all evil they’re not kidding.
John they should have thought more about the kids than just that the land was selling for a dollar. We should be more dedicated to who you’re serving than to how to do it cheaper.
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