Posted on 04/07/2014 11:21:50 AM PDT by Olog-hai
E.G. Vallianatos’ complaints about the heavy influence that large corporations wield over the U.S. government and environmental policy won’t be news to anyone who follows the debates over genetically modified crops or the ingredients in popular cosmetics. What is surprising and depressing in “Poison Spring,” however, is when that influence began, especially over the regulation of pesticides.
According to Vallianatos, even at the dawn of the Environmental Protection Agency, when Republicans and Democrats alike claimed to be green champions, corporations were working within the agency to undermine public health and safety and protect themselves, not the planet. …
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We need more sting operations. Agencies are subject to corruption. And we’ve forgotten the art of the sting.
We need more sting operations. Agencies are subject to corruption. And we’ve forgotten the art of the sting.
At its inception, the concept was NOT suggesting primacy of bugs, bunnies and rocks over people."
That it became, eventually, exactly that justifies scratching the entire structure and starting over.
Most of the folks involved in hands-on “green energy” projects (low cost, low fuel requirements) and small farming projects are not surprised.
Oehler’s underground...er, earth-integrated house.
Invisible House - an Oehler structure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3TZijmwZsQ
$50 underground house eco building (earth-integrated, that is)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVAF-JjuYc4
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