Word: nader
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...several other marginal plants, including three West Coast sulfite pulp mills owned by Crown-Zellerbach, have been closed down. A group of District 50 Allied and Technical Union members sent Muskie a list of 50 companies whose employment is expected to be cut because of pollution controls. Ralph Nader, who testified at the hearing, introduced an ominous new term: the "environmentally unemployed...
...paperworkers union submitted a statement declaring that "the lives and well-being of our fellow citizens do not depend upon an immediate program of radical steps to eliminate all nonhazardous paper-industry pollutants." Others, like the United Steelworkers union, have hired specialists to study the issue of job displacements. Nader proposed that Congress force companies that lay off workers because of environmental pressures to continue paying their wages for six months...
...pollution controls. The U.S. could start to exert pressure on other industrial nations to set stricter standards for their own automakers and steel producers, for example, just as it currently requires imported cars to carry safety equipment that is mandatory for Detroit's models. Otherwise, Nader may be able to use another new term-environmental recession...
...true, but not very much influence to change the system. A lot of influence to work within concepts that are going at the time, very little chance to reshape. The chance to reshape comes from outside. I think you will find that more and more people like Ralph Nader and Common Cause, who are functioning from these interstitial positions are better able to define the kinds of changes that are needed. It depends on your temperament whether you want to be inside facing the frustration, but closer to the levers of power, or be outside and free of the institutional...
Whatever he decides after two more years of law school, Reich is determined to avoid two pitfalls. The first, as he sees it, is that reformers who let themselves become as prominent as Ralph Nader invariably turn out to be "hollow shells" when seen close up. Secondly, among the more relaxed ranks of the counterculture, Reich (no kin to Yale Law Professor Charles Reich, author of The Greening of America) sees an alarming tendency to conformity and an unconscious yearning for authority. "I hope to be a kind of cross between a philosopher and a political hack," he says. Looking...