[DOWNLOAD] "Who Speaks for the Environment?" by Canadian Parliamentary Review * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Who Speaks for the Environment?
- Author : Canadian Parliamentary Review
- Release Date : January 22, 2000
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 251 KB
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In May 2000 Karen Kraft Sloan Member of Parliament for York North organized an EcoSummit conference which brought together scientists, academics and parliamentarians for a two-day meeting on the impact of water borne pollutants on human health. The following is an edited version of the keynote address to the EcoSummit. Let me begin by acknowledging progress made by the environmental movement since Earth Day in 1970. When I was growing up, before Earth Day, I remember the Cuyahoga River burning for a week with flames so high no one could find a way to put it out. I remember when Lake Erie was declared dead. I remember not being allowed to swim in the Hudson, the Potomac or the Charles rivers. I remember Washington D.C. when black smoke billowed out of the stacks so that on some days you could not see a city block.