Sentences with phrase «day in our toxic environments»

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Iron Crows (South Korea) Director: Bong - Nam Park Against a harsh environment of constant danger and toxic gases, workers here at the world's largest ship breaking yard in Bangladesh, risk their lives to feed their family on barely 2 USD per day.

If your appointments are not the same day as the trapping, keep the cats indoors in their covered traps and make sure they are dry, in a temperature - controlled environment, and away from dangers such as toxic fumes, other animals, or people.

Every day, armies of young men, women, and children, deprived of any other job alternative, work in these toxic environments.

It also makes economic sense: All those reservoirs filling up with coal ash day after day are just problems waiting to happen, and if we're just waiting for catastrophes to happen before we do something, the true cost of burning coal isn't being internalized properly; local citizens and people downstream of those rivers end up paying for it with their health and by losing their local environment (what if your family house was buried in potentially toxic sludge?).

After all, they aren't going to biodegrade or go in the compost pile, and they're made with precious resources (many of which are toxic to the environment when disposed of incorrectly), so you may want to do your part to minimize the mountains of e-waste that are generated every single day of the year.

via: Yale Environment 360 Coal, Activism Dr James Hansen Calls on Americans to Join Him at the Largest Protest on Global Warming in US History 2.6 Million Cubic Yards of Toxic Coal Ash Slurry Released in Tennessee Dike Burst Biggest Ever US Civil Disobedience on CLimate at Congressional Power Plant Bill McKibben Barack Obama Faces Environmental Clean Up After Two Centuries of Bingeing: Bill McKibben Quote of the Day: Bill McKibben on McMansions

It doesn't matter if your old coworkers burned popcorn in the break room every day, if your manager made immoral purchase order decisions or if the workplace environment was absolutely toxic.