DDT Wars Rescuing Our National Bird, Preventing Cancer, and Creating the Environmental Defense Fund
DDT Wars Rescuing Our National Bird, Preventing Cancer, and Creating the Environmental Defense Fund
- ISBN 13:
9780190219413
- ISBN 10:
0190219416
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 07/01/2015
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
This campaign was led by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), founded in 1967 by ten citizens, most of them scientists, volunteers without special political connections or financial resources. Their strategy was to take environmental problems to court. There were many setbacks along the way in this exciting and entertaining story. The group was often kicked out of court, but a few determined citizens made a large difference for environmental protection and public health. Author Charles Wurster was one of the leaders of the campaign. The first six years of EDF history are described as it struggled to survive. Now EDF is one of the world's great environmental advocacy organizations defending our climate, ecosystems, oceans and public health.