This is a cross-post from Greenpeace Executive Director Phil Radford.
A sad fact of living in an American city like Chicago is that every time we open a newspaper or switch on the local news, we hear of some senseless, tragic crime that has claimed an innocent life.
We become outraged, and we demand justice for those who have lost their children, their parents, their siblings or spouses.
In 1982, Chicago acted to stem the tide of gun-related violence when confronted with a disturbing rise in homicides.
In fact, between 1980 and 2006, some 32,300 American died every year due to handgun violence, which is second only to car crashes in deaths by injury.
Ever since I got my start as an advocate for a healthy environment on Chicago’s
Maybe the impacts of a company’s misdeeds are of a scale so grand that it is difficult for us to imagine. Every year, the toxic pollution that spews from the smokestacks of America’s coal-fired power plants kills between 13,000 and 34,000 people, according to studies by the Clean Air Task Force and Harvard University.
That staggering figure doesn’t include the carbon pollution
