Eco Human Health and The Global Environment; An Interactive Workshop

                                               Dr. Debdas Mukerjee, Dr. Nicholas Newman, Marilyn Johnson, PhD
                                                                         Saturday June 4, 1-4PM
                                              Lakeshore Interfaith Institute,  6676 122nd Ave Ganges ,Mi.
                                                                                                   269 543 3951
                                                                 
     

"Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course. Human activities inflict harsh and often irreversible damage on the environment and on critical resources. If not checked, many of our current practices put at serious risk the future that we wish for human society and the plant and animal kingdoms, and may so alter the living world that it will be unable to sustain life in the manner we know. Fundamental changes are urgent if we are to avoid the collision our present course will bring about."
   This statement," A Warning To Humanity",by the Union of Concerned Scientists in 1992, is the consensus conclusion of 1600 scientists including 102 Nobel laureates from 70 countries.[ www.ucsusa.org; see also www.millenniumassessment.org]
   Our program on the persistent industrial toxins in the environment, will address, on global, local, and personal levels, just a part of this warning. .   
   Dr. Debdas Mukerjee ,faculty member of Kiel Medical School in Kiel, Germany, consults the Ministries of Environment in India, South Africa, Sweden, Canada, Australia, and Mexico.; he has published hundreds of papers on environmental health issues.
  He will give an overview of how dioxins, PCBs and heavy metals released from industrial and domestic sources, seriously endanger human, and more especially, juvenile and prenatal health. He will also give examples of remedial actions that he proposed as cleanup options to freshwater pollution in Sweden and India and talk also about efforts to remove dioxins and other pollutants from Michigan waterways.   
    Pediatrician Dr.Nicholas C. Newman, who practices in Holland Michigan, will address the consequences of exposure of individual children and adults to mercury and lead toxins found in food , water and elsewhere in the community.  He will also discuss airborne toxins and will recommend practical ways to avoid exposure to all of these poisons.
  Environmental activist and teacher, Marilyn Johnson, board member of the Kalamazoo River Protection Association, will lead conference attendees on a short field trip at the end of the meeting, to the nearby Kalamazoo River to look for nesting eagles, endangered by PCBs emitted years ago by various industries  A short video on the Kalamazoo titled " Cleanup or Cover-up" which explains how the river was contaminated and by whom , and the consequences to human and animal life will also be shown.
  An organic vegetarian lunch will be offered at 1PM to all participants
 Cost is 10.00 for the day.  Please RSVP at 269 543 3951   " You can get herte from there" call for directions