[pf] Warning labels not enough

by Kaleopono

29 December 2000 01:02 UTC

HEALING OUR WORLD: WEEKLY COMMENT

By Jackie Alan Giuliano, Ph.D.

WARNING LABELS ARE NOT ENOUGH

No politics, song, religion, behavior, or what not,
is of account, unless it compare with the 
amplitude of the earth.
Unless it face the exactness, vitality, impartiality,
Rectitude of the Earth.
-- Walt Whitman

The approach taken by government regulators and politicians to mitigate
environmental and other health hazards is usually to identify the harmful
material or practice in question and to post a warning label. If we are
lucky, a multi-year phase out plan will be presented that keeps
the toxic substances in the marketplace or continues the dangerous
practices for the sake of business profits. 

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