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Toxic Waste at Love Canal—Who Really Cares About the Environment [Open College transcript]

We’re now posting serially at thinkspot the transcripts of my Open College podcasts. Here’s the eighth: OC8: Toxic Waste at Love Canal—Who Really Cares About the Environment. “Love Canal is a classic example of unfortunately bad journalism combined with bad philosophy. Almost five decades now, that combination continues to infect our public thinking and public […]

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Toxic Waste at Love Canal—Who Really Cares About the Environment [Open College series]

The chemical leak at Love Canal informs our environmental thinking — but was it a government failure or a greedy-corporation failure? Audio link: iTunes Stitcher YouTube Topics: Good and bad news about Love Canal // Historical information // Consequences and the rise of environmental philosophy // Important facts // Who are the bad guys? // Bad-Corporations/Good-Government narrative

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The Love Canal Environmental Disaster — Four Decades Later [new “The Good Life” column]

The opening of my latest column at EveryJoe: “First, some good news about the 1970s Love Canal environmental disaster in New York: long-term studies have shown no increase in rates of cancer or birth defects among the area’s residents. That’s welcome news, even though toxic chemicals were released into the environment, homeowners were frightened, dislocated,

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