Although North America and Europe continue to be the world's biggest buyers of cars, fewer and fewer car batteries are made there. Manufacturing has moved where labor is cheaper and environmental protections regulations are more lenient, or at least more leniently enforced.
"There's not a developing country where this isn't happening," says Perry Gottesfeld, of OK International.
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The article presents itself as the unfolding mystery of children and animals dying. It unfolds as a case of poisoning by industrial substances that almost everybody can understand. It exemplifies the worldwide problems of unknown poisons destroying our biosphere, and is a clear example of the dangers of exploiting cheap labor in countries without well developed environmental protections.
In what instance, with another substance, could poisons reach out to affect a large number of people and creatures? We know of pollution killing ... More »
The World Health Organization says there’s still so much lead in the ground that the area is toxic. The government wants to relocate the entire neighborhood. But ... More »
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