What’s a little death and disease in the face of profit? Not worth pricing out, according to new rules from the EPA. This week, the agency announced that it will no longer consider human health when it calculates the economic cost of pollution.
That’s to be expected in Trump’s America, but in our new issue, Scott W. Stern explains how international environmental law has been weak from the moment of its inception. Polluting corporations and wealthy nations emerged from the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment scot-free—a pattern that would repeat at such meetings in the decades to come. And speaking of history and denial, Marianne Dhenin describes the fight over social studies in the United States, where progressive curriculum providers find themselves under attack.
“While lawmakers squabble over what should be taught in schools, those responsible for teaching it are navigating increasingly hostile and precarious working environments with dwindling support and resources.”
“The development of a feminist consciousness, for Kraf, is the fall from Eden, out of a blissful, childlike ignorance and into the unbearable knowledge of the impossible condition of womanhood.”
“Here lies one problem at the heart of the free clinic model: If indeed it is the only option for its patients, what to do with the people they are ill-equipped to help?”
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