Where Were the Environmentalists When Libby Needed Them Most?. Ray Ring.
by Ring, Ray; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 49Environment. Publisher: High Country News, 2005ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): Asbestos -- Physiological effect | Asbestosis | Death -- Causes | Environmentalism | Environmentalists | Libby (Mont.) | Sierra Club | Vermiculite | W.R. Grace & CoDDC classification: 050 Summary: "The story of an ailing town in northwestern Montana calls into question the health of the environmental movement." (HIGH COUNTRY NEWS) This article addresses the claim that the environmental movement "has become narrow and self-interested, too focused on things like grizzly bears and wilderness to care about human needs," by illustrating how environmentalists have ignored the plight of asbestos victims exposed by a vermiculite mine owned by W.R. Grace & Co. in Libby, Montana.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Where Were the Environmentalists When Libby Needed Them Most?, Feb. 21, 2005; pp. 8+.
"The story of an ailing town in northwestern Montana calls into question the health of the environmental movement." (HIGH COUNTRY NEWS) This article addresses the claim that the environmental movement "has become narrow and self-interested, too focused on things like grizzly bears and wilderness to care about human needs," by illustrating how environmentalists have ignored the plight of asbestos victims exposed by a vermiculite mine owned by W.R. Grace & Co. in Libby, Montana.
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