Reply #3: Hi. It's worth a lot, both children have an auto-immune disorder.

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Watch the last 5 minutes of Herbert's talk (above) starting with the slide (I think the word 'women' should be changed to 'humanitarians'):

Will Women Lead The Environmental Health Movement?

How can we imagine that ordinary people might be able successfully to challenge the overwhelming internal logic of the global economic system because of concern over environmental health?

There is an Ethiopian proverb that when spider webs unite they can tie up a lion. The lion of the globally destructive patterns of production and consumption may one day be ensnared and ultimately domesticated by the gossamer webs of human consciousness and community action. What will happen when ordinary people, whose lives are often mortally wounded by the destruction of the biosphere, come to understand that their own wounds are so often intimately related to the wounds of the earth.

What will happen when a working woman comes to a realization that her own breast cancer, her husband's lymphoma, her brother's melanoma, her son's learning disability, his best friend's attention deficit disorder, her daughter's endometriosis, her niece's cleft palate, her cousin's chronic anxiety and panic disorder, her best friend's severe chemical sensitivity, her best friend's daughter's asthma, her uncle's infertility, her neighbor's son's testicular cancer, and her sister's daughter's childhood leukemia may form a pattern?

...continues without slide.

Argh, it accidentally x-ed out. You'll just have to do it. Then you'll certainly want to play the rest while you're multi-tasking. Then you'll certainly want to watch it all very carefully. I would bet on it.