Ryan Bailey-Love Canal

Here is a link to the other environmental tragedy, the bp oil spill: http://www.dosomething.org/tipsandtools/11-facts-about-bp-oil-spil

Here are my answers to some of the questions:

• One of the biggest things that we can do to mitigate these problems is to raise the public awareness that these problems still exist, and they can be extremely harmful if we do not take action to take care of them.  This is a responsibility that many public health professionals have today.
• In my opinion environmental hazards are something that we need to be concerned about on a daily basis.  These things happen all to often and constant supervision in order to prevent them.  Environmental hazards can be very dangerous to humans and we need to take action to protect  out selves from them.
• We should care about what happened thirty years ago because we need to make sure we do not make the same mistakes again.  We can learn from tragedies like these how to make our society safer for people to live in.

Here are some of the reactions to the link that I posted:

• That totally sucks. I'd be worried if the ground started oozing black goo too! Hope those people got some kind of compensation from that business. Or at least some juiceboxes or something.
•  I would be so mad! They didn't tell the residents that they were surrounded by chemical sludge. If my kids were sick I would be mad too.
• Greed and fear. It's always better to face the truth than hide it. Cover ups never work.
• Terrible decisions made on the company's part...Its sad that this company's mistakes gives the rest of their industry a bad rap for pollution and danger
• Devastating mistake on both the company's part and on the school's part. The school was warned about the potential for pollution in that area, but went through with their plans. Much better to fix the problem before it festers and endangers the lives of many more people.
•  I just think that shows how much more awareness we have now about how we impact the environment. Ya that was a HUGE problem AND we're learning. We didn't know all the impacts before and we're STILL learning.
•  Although I agree that the chemical plant was probably at fault, it's too bad that there wasn't any evidence to that end. There were suspicions and "black goo" (which could have been caused by quite a few natural events-perhaps they were on top of an oil well or something), but as far as I could tell, there wasn't any conclusive proof that tied the goo and health problems to the chemical waste.
•  No, I did not bother to watch the video, but a comment and there makes #8, unless you don't count your original, in which case this is #7
• I also think this was a terrible decision on the companies part, obviously, but there was nothing any one could do to stop them. I think there was a definite need for government legislation here in order to protect the safety of the people. Since this tragedy there has fortunately been legislation passed regarding toxic waste dumping by private companies to prevent something like this from happening again. 
• Never underestimate what a mom will do for her children.