politics of chlorine

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Sat Jun 5 19:38:28 PDT 1999


On Sun, 30 May 1999, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> from David Harvey's Justice, Nature, and the Geography of Difference,
> pp. 399-401.
<snip>
> The demand to cease the
> production of all toxins, hazardous wastes, and radioactive materials, if
> taken literally, would prove disastrous to the public health and well-being
> of large segments of the population, including the poor (Greenpeace's
> parallel campaign to ban the use of chlorine is an excellent example of the
> contradictions in such a politics).

I missed this. Why is banning chlorine bad for poor people?

Michael __________________________________________________________________________ Michael Pollak................New York City..............mpollak at panix.com



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