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The disaster has been b.p. and the two initials are the d.d.t. of our area. when you think back to 1962 and "silent spring" a whole country woke up to what pesticides do to the environment. what thats what this spill is doing to the gulf. people are going to have to wake up anew. were going to be looking at all the shoddy kinds of laws and tricks that big oil has played in the gulf of mexico. and b.p. has taken a hit for everybody now. but its their third environmental disaster in the united sta...

>> it will break up naturally the same as in alaska. well probably wait 40 or 50 years before it breaks up naturally. and what well see in louisiana with little bit warmer temperature, maybe a little more rapid degradation. maybe a little bit less than 50 year, but who knows how much less. >> so leaving nature to take its course clearly doesnt make any sense. and b.p., as we were talking about was trying to get volunteers to sign this waiver. and now theyre basically disavowing any knowledge of ...

Breathe. we would find household chemicals that you clean your sink and countertop with. chemicals in your television, in your telephones. we would find chemicals that are in the food that you eat. testing in some cases, umbilical cord blood. we found over 200 toxic chemicals in just ten samples. some banned years before but still exist. ddt breakdown products. >> you have an 18-month-old. >> very active guy. >> and you an your wife -- based on everything you know what do you do differently? >> ...

Are located. oftentimes very little government vigilance. oftentime it is state and local authorities side with the industry more often than with the people expoedsed. the concerns of the community often arent heard. and the truth of the matter is that all of us in effect live on a fence line. when you think about exposures through consumer products, food, water, air because these chemicals know no boundaries, they certainly dont stop at the fence line. we are fall effect being exposed at variou...

Ron just said. continue, steve. >> as if on cue, i got a direct message on twitter and i saved it. somebody said, will you go to this link and donate to save -- to buy nets to fight malaria in africa. i just went ballistic right away. if there is one thing i hate more than the geneva convention is environmentalist whackos. you have a million people dying from malaria and they want to fight it with nets. and i dont want to use nets because i live in this century and we have better stuff for killi...

Price of electricity and drive jobs, but there is a darker side. thats what this film is about. >> you made a point in your film which i have been talking about how environmentalists were able to get ddt banned. they said it was harmful. what that lead to 40 million kids and adults are dead because of the banning of ddt. in a way you are saying -- im saying it too. en viern men 258 lists -- environmentalists killed 258 times the muster of hitler. but it is african-american kids. if it was americ...

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Someones trying to scare the kids, its because they lost on facts. this is true in most issues in our time, the drug war, satanic heavy metal music, ddt hysteria, day-care abuse, rising gun crime. once you focus on actual stats, the story dies. far better to stoke fear than state the facts. we used to call this propaganda. now its called raising awareness. its where al gore and global warming hysterics live. its not about a tiny blip in temperature over a century. its that the debate has been st...

And here lies the lesson, once someones trying to scare the kids, its because they loss on fact. this is true in most issues in our time, the drug war, satanic heavy metal music, ddt hysteria, day-care abuse, rising gun crime. once you focus on actual stats, the story dies. far better to stoke fear than state the facts. we used to call this propaganda. now its called raising awareness. its where al gore and global warming hysterics live. its not about a tiny blip in temperature over a century. i...