Why are environmentalists so concerned about what's going on with the planet? To understand our point of view a video like the Eleventh Hour is an excellent place to start. Narrated by Leonardo Di Caprio, beautifully shot and very accessible film. Hopefully will change the way you think.
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Why should you embrace environmental principles in your life?
A short list of steps you can take to be on the way to reducing your footprint on our only planet
In only a short time, Australia has been radically changed by European settlement. This is an introduction into the main problems we face.
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..in the early 1930s, most people living in cities got around on electric streetcars. Concerned that this wasn't the kind of environment in which they could sell a lot of buses, General Motors, using a series of front companies, began buying streetcar systems, tearing out the tracks and then selling the new, polluting bus systems back to the cities - usually with contracts that prohibited purchase of "any new equipment using fuel or means of propulsion other than gas."...GM was soon joined by Greyhound, Firestone Tire and Rubber, Standard Oil of California (also called Chevrom) and Mack Trucks. In 1949 - after these companies had destroyed more than 100 streetcar systems in more than 45 cities...GM, Chevron and Firestone were convicted of a criminal conspiracy...They were fined $5000 each and the executives who organised the scheme were fined $1 each
- Mark Zepezauer and Arthur Naiman, Take the Rich Off Welfare
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