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Children have unacceptable levels of lead in their bodies?
A company was exporting lead through the port in the town the children live in. After some months they have not been able to clean up the unacceptable levels of lead in the ground and water. Would you let that company take their product to a different port in a much bigger city? The West Australian government does..... How can we fight it?
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
You cant poor people just have to deal with it. Stuff like that is widespread. Communities have come together to poor money and time into expesive legal battles. And....LOST....because that company will have more money and corporate standing. Alo if it leaves the jobs lost will be huge.
Everything is a carcinogen nowadays or poisoness. I just got done reading The secret war on cancer. And I a freakin bummed out.
Things like this have been happening forever.
After WW2 the world created dozens of agencies for health standards. Unfortunately 1 check from a company to a researcher changes there statements too the widely heard.
There is no evidence linking XXXX to XXXXX. More research is needed....
There is no way to fight it... Its all a case of NIMBY
Not In My Backyard
... sorry capitalist economy sucks...This is a result. Immagine what would happen if a company spends a 10 million dollars creating and endorsing a product and discovers it is hazerdous. Is it better for them to say sorry to all their employees. Or send a few thousand to some health expert to fudge the data?