Environment and Health 25.3

27 July, 1999
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Editorial: Treating the Causes

We are about protecting people, not birds and bees." American activist Lois Gibbs was referring to her campaign against toxic waste, but she spoke for many environmentalists concerned less about wilderness or rare species, than about cities and industries, and their impacts on our own species.

Of course, awareness of a connection between the environment and health is not new. In Silent Spring Rachel Carson wrote of stilling the songs of birds, but it was her account of pesticides and human health that really made people sit up and take notice. That was nearly four decades ago. Environmentalism has since then been as much about our lungs as about landscapes. The links between the environment and human health have become ever clearer, as evidence grows of dangers posed by a contaminated world. ...

Editorial: Treating the Causes
Stephen Bocking

Money Matters
TED SCHRECKER
Incomes tell a story about environmental dangers and human health.
Inset: Plump Eyelashes or Proper Education by ELENA JOHNSON
Inset: Poor Environment, Poor Health by ELENA JOHNSON

Children First
SANDRA SCHWARTZ AND GRAHAM W. CHANCE
Environmental contaminant protection policy needs to be rewritten to reflect the needs of our most vulnerable citizens.
Inset: Eleven Steps to Improve the Indoor Environment for Children by JILL MCDOWELL

Detective Work
D.C. COLE, R.E.G. UPSHUR AND B.L. GIBSON
Environmental contaminants are important contributors to ill health, but it is not easy to identify the culprits and measure their effects.
Inset: Proving the Environment-Health Link in Court by THERESA MCCLENAGHAN

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Notes

Mining for Community Benefits
MAURA HANRAHAN
The Voisey's Bay Environmental Assessment Panel shows how it might be possible.

Air Power
STEPHANIE ALEXANDER
Despite government inaction, more Canadians are turning to green energy from windmills.

Clear-cutting the Ocean Floor
HELEN BAULCH
Trawling gear devastates the world's continental shelves.

Battlelines
J. PATTERSON, T. BOWDEN AND C. DYER
Val-Saint-François citizens win court case against Hydro-Québec, but power line construction continues.

Citizen Case
DAWN PIER
Kingston resident wins Fisheries Act prosecution of city.

Reviews

Sacred Lands: Aboriginal World Views, Claims and Conflicts by Jill Oakes, Rick Riewe, Kathi Kinew, and Elaine Maloney, eds.
The Ecology of Eden by Evan Eisenberg
The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature by David Suzuki with Amanda McConnell
Dismantling the State: Downsizing to Disaster by Walter Stewart

Letters

Harms' Way: Modified Organisms for Lunch by Dave Harms

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