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u environmental teach-in
the michigan daily
the michigan daily
page two--student activities
page two-student activities
50,000 participate in
man would not be the first ani
mal to become extinct if he
poisoning his environ
keeps
director of
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that environmental reform is
important because man has a
basic need for wilderness
and
nature
preservation
wilderness
is
for man sake he said to a
crowd of about 1,000 people
we have to save the flowers
because man needs them for his
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white
wiscon
sin professor told the rally that
genetically the man of today is
almost the same as the nean
derthal man of 50,000 years ago
and even similar to the pre
human apes from which modern
man developed two million years
ago
f
you are genetically condi
tioned not to ann arbor or to
chicago but to the african veldt
from where you developed iltis
explained we need our evo
lutionary companions in na
resources he..said that pollut
ants
on children
that do not show for many
haveneffects
years
look
the
at yourselves he told
crowd you look like a
final
why
james
of the
day
rally
r
material
every time someone brings
in glass it represents a change
in attitude enact co-chair
man toby cooper said explain
ing what he thought was the
reasoning behind the project
means that people are think
ing about what they can do to
maintain the environment
it
stead
in
it
of how to use
enact has also been
tempting to change attitudes of
corporations
business
e
group gave enthusiastic support
to campaign gm an effort led
by associates of ralph nader to
to
be
force general motors
more responsible
to the public
in april representatives of
enact met with the regents
and urged them to vote the uni
night
t
but with the
h
t
at
tion
pollution
intrinsic
feature of the very technology
we have developed
environ
y commoner
mentalist b a
about corporate
viol
ence that night a panel dis
cussion on man survival and
ment policies
through graduation and loss of
interest a number of the group
leaders have left in addi
support from the student
especially
body has
declined
over the summer months from
top
tion
pre-teach-in levels
enact leaders however are
confident that they can con
tinue as an on-going organiza
tion and predict an upswing in
student interest this fall two
paid full-time co-chairman and
two part-time
secretaries
are
helping with the task
support from the community
our techno
successful
in
producing material goods but
too often it is disastrously in
compatible with the natural en
kept coming
up eliciting radically
different
from teach-in guests
never resolved these six is
sues lie at the heart of the en
vironmental problem
vironment
answers
the
problems of the world
not caused by science or
technology but by man dis
agreed the late united
auto
workers president walter reu
ther another night
the next
day gary ind mayor richard
hatcher took a similar position
describing all americans as
conspirators
capitalism was the target of
ecologist richard levins only
under capitalism
are
human
skills a commodity and waste
necessary levins explained
sen edmund muskie gave a
different analysis placing the
blame on the frontier ethic
the frontier ethic helped us
build the strongest nation in
theworld muskiessaid bud it
also led us to believe that our
natural and human resources
are
who or what carries the
main share of responsibility for
pollution
and
environmental
decay
corporations
t e c h
nology the american people
capitalism
and
the frontier
ethic were a few of the culprits
partici
by teach-in
accused
pants
co
i
endless
can technology over-come
problems of pollution some
were
the
teach-in speakers such as dow
i
spond
commented
there
reuther
will obviously have to
be some restructuring through
the political process
others
called for broader
changes the only solution for
the people is to/take back their
country and industries sha
piro said
and that means
making a revolution
author murray bookchin ar
gued that it is impossible to live
in harmony with the natural
world with america present
hierarchical competitive so
ciety he said that ecological
action must be revolutionary or
be nothing at all
how effective is govern
ment in the fight to save the
environment most of the poli
ticians defended their efforts
while others were critical
don't think government
has been locking horns with this
matter the way it should ed
die albert said
johnson head of the de
partment of health education
and welfare environmental
health service claimed that
public apathy is the reason why
government has not taken more
affirmative action against pol
i
senator muskie speaks at teach-in
robert harris said no public of
ficial would vote for higher tax
es or attack powerful economic
interests without strong public
support
finally
the
is
a
environ
mental crisis obscuring other is
sues such as poverty racism
and the vietnam war
hatcher for example charged
that the issue is taking the
nation attention away from
the problems of discrimination
something
not even a bull
tired of studying
relax with
a
good book
browse over our
20,000 paper backs
wahr
cc
lution
taking
connor or george wallace could
do
muskie also expressed concern
that the anti-pollution crusade
not
become
smokescreen
a
that will obscure the overall
crisis of life in america
disagreeing with this view
commoner said there are defi
nite links between pollution
the war and the problems of
blacks and warned against be
lieving people who claim they
are separate
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a speech by gary mayor gordon
hatcher closed the event
throughout
the teach-in
a
especially from high school stu
dents and housewives remains
enthusiastic a group of women
have recently formed an organ
ization called consumers for
enact and have held a number
meetings to discuss
of coffee
the environment
our basic concept is you go
through several
steps
before
taking environmental action
kingwill says explaining en
philosophy you have to
go through awareness
to con
cern and then leap the final
hurdle that leads from concern
to action
our goal is to bush for a
better world he adds summing
up the mission of enact and
the difficulties it faces in the
struggle for a decent environ
ment
because the corpora
a profit of pollu
j
a n d
business
administration
opposing
schools
the plan in
addition to the business back
ground of many of the regents
it is unlikely there will be quick
changes
in university
invest
shapiro at the kick-off
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the land to our air water and
said william kopper
of the ecology center
the drive was so successful
that the glass company agreed
to set up a permanent collec
tion point in the city for re
cycling glass
enact hopes to turn this in
to a recycling center where peo
ple can bring discarded alum
inum cans paper and scrap
metal as well as glass staffed
by full-time w o k e rs and
enact volunteers the drive
in center would pay nominal
sums of money for the scrap
dumps
not want to take sides in a polit
ical dispute decided to do noth
ing and the university shares
were voted by management
following
up
this
effort
enact presented to the regents
in june a plan for a committee
that would advise the univer
sity on the corporations in
which it invests
the committee would guide
the university investment of
fice away from owning stock in
corporations it feels contributes
to pollution and other social
problems the committee would
also advise the university
on
voting its shares during stock
holders meetings
the regents took no action on
the proposal but asked the en
act representatives to e n d
further information on
them
corporations and their relation
ship to environmental problems
this will be a continuing ef
fort because things like this
take time kingwill says you
don't affect the regents over
pollution
geneticist
by
ir
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page
it
tions make
cerned
few basic questions
do we have a
a k e d
problem
crusader
teach-in consumer
ralph nader told a capacity
crowd in hill aud that the pub
lic should be increasingly con
ture
iltis also discussed the harm
to the environment which he
said was caused by pollution and
man exploitation of natural
the
schindel
a chance
shoots
of asparagus
pale and sickly
during
daily-dave
suggested
different experts
ralph nader urged that cor
porate profits be used to fund
anti-pollution research and de
velopment
sen gaylord nelson among
others recommended
that the
federal government pay to clean
up the environment through
reordering its
i o i t i e s he
called for immediate expendi
tures of 25 billion per year on
the environment
another solution was offered
by state rep raymond
smit
who suggested that taxes and
the cost of living might have to
rise as much as ten per cent to
stop pollution
can the present political
system be repaired to handle
decay or are
environmental
moreradical changes needed
separating the liberals from
the radicals this question was
one of the most controversial
of the teach-in
think you can fight with
in the system and make it re
r
physiological and
health
iltis a university
enact
literature give earth
ecology programs continue
continued'from
it
of money
sources
reuther
at a noon rally that same
day ecologist hugh fltis said
was held at pioneer
the state natural resources com
mission called over-population
our gravest threat there while
actor eddie albert warned that
walter
u m i n
s
m
shops on specific environmental
problems were held on campus
while an environmental t o w n
high school
ralph macmullan
kers
and doan bearing the brunt of
it the verbal riot continued
intermittently
throughout the
four-hour marathon program
guerrilla theatre presentations
attacking dow were given out
side the auditorium before the
program began
muskie described the ameri
can people as the most powerful
establishment environmentalists
have to face and asked students
to undertake the challenge of
enlightening them motivating
them and getting them to act
admitting that change within
the system is often slow he said
that within his lifetime he has
seen attitudes change on issues
such as abortion
godfrey gov william milliken
ecologist barry commoner and
president robben fleming
on march 12 over 30 work
meeting
environmental
can be cured who
should pay for
the federal
government corporations and
the american people were three
a
soft drink
lawn of the local coca-cola bot
tling plant to protest the use of
non-return cans
that night over 13,000 people
attended the formal kick-off
rally for the teach-in at crisler
arenia listening to sen gaylord
nelson call for financial social
and ethical changes to meet
the environmental crisis
other speakers included gene
ticist james shapiro arthur
10,000
a
problems
other
o
that
of hogwash
s
more
i
pol
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w
typified
r
by a panel on the causes of
than
cans on the
dumped
ralph
by
state natural re
sources commission director be
lieve such hopes are false
read a quote from a presi
dent advisor saying that tech
nology can take care of this
macmullan said
a lot
macmullan
r
r
porarily
itothers
there was strong
lution featuring an address by
muskie
the maine democrat express
that the environ
ed concern
mental crisis would be used as
to
obscure
smokescreen
issues he called for a strategy
to protect the total environment
warning against the poisons of
hate and fear that divide us and
set us against each
departing from his prepared
text muskie presented his vis
whole society rich in
ion of
the diversity of its people rich
in their potential an outpost of
life on a fragile planet
much of the diversity men
tioned by muskie was evident
in the noisy audience of 2,500
pioneer high
that overflowed
school auditorium and gym
nasium where a closed-circuit
television carried the speeches
of muskie and other speakers
none of the speakers escapedr
some heckling with the late
president of the united auto
dr
te
state and
public support
over three-dozen workshops
were held the next day followed
with a number of workshops
that same day an overflow
crowd in hutchins hall heard
lawyer
victor
environmental
yannaconne outline his 30 bil
lion suit against ddt manu
facturers
at noon the next day an
automobile was tried and exe
cuted in a mock trial on the
diag after testimony from wit
sigmund
nesses such as
ford and rob rockyfeller
the car was hacked to death
by cheering students with
sledge-hammers
students
if
our
r
the problem
opened march
the teach-indoan
afterwards
local
these
standard of living is based on
technology we have opened up
pandora box and cannot close
federal officials who said that
government would only move on
enact
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technology can solve
problems he explained
also on the program were a
of other
1970
chemical corp president ted
doan claimed it can
nent
number
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g
chudwin
anyone in the university
community was not aware of
the environmental problem be
fore last march 10-14 they are
aware of it now during those
five days this campus received
one of the most massive dos
ages of environmental educa
tion ever to be unleashed in this
country
sponsored by environmental
action for survival
a march environmental teach
in drew an estimated 50,000
people from all over the united
states to over 125 rallies dis
cussions and panels
the distinguished guest-list
included experts from a num
ber of environmental fields as
well as speakers such as sen
edmund muskie arthur god
frey anarchist murray book
chin aild dow chemical corp
president ted
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