Helen Caldicott - If you love this planet (1992)

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Trees are really upside-down lungs: their trunks are equivalent to the trachea, their branches to the right and left main bronchi, and all their branching twigs and leaves to small bronchi and alveoli, or air sacs, where the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide takes place.

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The U.S. population, a mere four or five percent of the world total, creates half the world's toxic waste.

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The whole world is being 'deculturalized' into a uniform 'Coca-Cola society,' wanting and needing an American way of life.

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Trees are more than just havens for animals, birds, insects, and humans; they are also the lungs of the earth. Just as we breathe oxygen into our lungs and exhale carbon dioxide, so trees breathe carbon dioxide into their leaves and exhale oxygen.

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The problem with addicted people, communities, corporations, or countries is that they tend to lie, cheat, or steal to get their 'fix.' Corporations are addicted to profit and governments to power.

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In terms of the biology of the planet, development is a euphemism for destruction.

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Politics is not really politics any more. It is run, for the most part, by Madison Avenue advertising firms, who sell politicians to the public the way they sell bars of soap or cans of beer.

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