Part of seven programs about caring for the earth and the environment.|POLLUTION : THE FAILURE OF CONTROLS / Barry Commoner| produced by Pam Burton. - SERIES: Healing the planet : care and repair of planet earth| no. 1 1st in a series of programs about caring for the earth. CONTENT: Commoner| Queen's College, City University of N.Y., Director of Center for the Biology of Natural Systems, author, environmental activist| talks about success with the elimination of pollutants. He points out the hypoccrisy of our economic system which appraises rich people's lives as more important than poor people. He reads a memo from the Georgia Peach Council which states that accidental sterilization in the work place has its positive side. - RECORDED: at the conference for Physicians for Social Responsibility and Beyond War in Santa Monica, 27 Oct. 1990.
Commoner, Director of the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems at Queen's City College, author, and environmental activist, talks about success with the elimination of pollutants. He points out the hypocrisy of our economic system which appraises rich people's lives as more important that poor peoples. He reads a memo from the Georgia Peach Council which states that accidental sterilization in the workplace has its positive aspects.