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Direct human casualties, especially American and financial costs of wars are openly discussed in the media. Yet the war on the environment is rarely addressed. Superfund sludge leaks into our food and water supplies. Uranium mining devastates reservations. Bombing ranges litter the US and its overseas territories. It is easier to gain support for military intervention if the public believes the effects are contained in a war zone halfway around the world.
Adrienne Anderson is professor of Environmental and Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She served as the Western Director of the National Toxics Campaign, a network of community groups. In 1997 Anderson filed a federal whistleblower case on a plan to mix plutonium waste with sewer sludge, process it into fertiliser and then use it on American farms. She works with farmers and unions to stop such dangerous practices from taking place around the country today.
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