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This 4 page paper discusses ways in which citizens might work to make the environment safer with regard to the danger proposed by toxic mercury. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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toxic menace to our health and wellbeing. This paper suggests a plan for getting the mercury out of the environment. Discussion Today it seems as if the corporations are
completely out of control. With the backing of the current Administration, they are allowed to do pretty much as they please, including polluting the streams, fouling the air, and
dumping toxic waste wherever they like. The result of this indiscriminate waste is an environment that is becoming so foul that it can hardly sustain life. What can
be done? The first thing to do is to make everyone aware of the extent of the problem. This is difficult as the media refuses to print or report
anything negative about the Bush Administration or its friends and supporters, and that includes "big business." However, some things are so egregious that they cannot be suppressed. A
case in point is that of Bernadine Edwards, who is now forced "to wear a respiratory mask when she gardens outside" (Pope, 2005, p. A22). The pollution that is
suffocating her comes from the 98 factories that Tyson Foods built "within a three-mile radius" of her home, "pumping so much toxic ammonia into the air that Bernadine has sealed
her windows and shut her family inside" (Pope, 2005, p. A22). When Edwards found out that the Bush administration was "meeting behind closed doors with the poultry industry to
craft a deal that would let it off the hook for cleaning up the pollution it causes, Bernadine and other rural residents joined up to voice their outrage" (Pope, 2005,
p. A22). Edwards left Kentucky for the first time, traveled to the East Coast, and lobbied "administration officials in Washington about the need to put public health considerations ahead
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