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Earth Day 2021-Where are We Now?
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The Venture Café conversation, EARTH DAY 2021-Where Are We Now is focused on how the growing levels of bad air, water, fracking and fossil fuel impacts the lives of people who live in Philadelphia & Pennsylvania. This edition is also available on YouTube, here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-VNefFO60A. This session builds on a 2020 Usable Past podcast, Prelude:Earth Day 1970-2020 "that begins with 1970 national conference/protest about looming environmental crisis, a prelude to the first Earth Day and is contrasted with 50 years later witnessing the October 2019 Climate Strike. Includes incidents with Robert O. Anderson, CEO of Atlantic Richfield Oil, Extinction Rebellion, Secretary of Interior Walter Hickel, NY Times columnist Floyd Norris and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist & scientist Laurie Garrett, the Chicago 7/8, Liberation News Service and the Hog Farmers."
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