mantra wrote on Sep 9
th, 2009 at 12:07pm:
I doubt the Eskimo Village will have any success. No-one can fight these huge companies. They are more powerful than the whole countries they hold to ransom.
It's not just the emissions, it is the destruction of the land and environment, the pollution of the water and the toxic chemicals these companies leave in their wake.
I watched a documentary recently on the wild animals of the Dead Zone - Chernobyl and in the last couple of decades a whole new forest has grown over this area. It is unfit for human habitation and will be for thousands of years, yet hundreds of species of native animals have returned and are breeding prolifically.
The multinationals will only stop when they've wiped out their consumer base - a law suit will not be effective.
The tobacco companies were pretty formidable too, yet some litigation was successful.
Re Chernobyl, there are some hot spots, but on the whole the Dead Zone would be habitable if they allowed it. Dust has covered a lot of the radioactive fallout and the levels are dropping. I read the book about the Dead Zone some time ago.
The animals have no obvious side effects and the nature reserve is the most succesful in Europe. Ironically one species of horse would have gone extinct if it was not for the Chernobyl accident. Also ironically, Chernobyl was not the product of multinational corperations, but a state run nuclear power industry.
They would never have been allowed to build something like that without adequate containment in the West. Democracy and free enterprise have a lot in their favour.
The Oil companies tend to say one thing publically yet they continue to fund disinformation in secret.
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