>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?
Germs in the water, I guess. Of course they could always buy San Pellegrino.
Doug