University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point
Geography 340/540

Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)

  Assigned online reading

Drumbeat for Mother Earth, Indigenous Environmental Network, including:

• What are POPs?
• Where are POPs found?
• Polluted food
• Children are affected most
• The warning from animals
• A serious health threat to humans  [1,300 words total]

Also, read at least one of the online resources listed below--

  Optional online resources*

• "Indigenous Hot Spots," indigenous Environmental Network [1,000 words] 

• "The Precautionary Principle and Persistent Organic Pollutants," Ted Schettler, The Science and Environmental Health Network -- Prepared for POPs INC4 Treaty Negotiations, Bonn, Germany. March 2000  [1,500 words] 

• "EPA Urged to Perform Emergency PCB Clean-up [In Fox River and Green Bay, Wisconsin]," Rebecca Leighton Katers, Clean Water Action Council of N.E. Wisconsin, 7 March 2000  [800 words] 

• "U.S. Undermines POPs Treaty, July 13, 2000," Charlie Cray, Environmental Research Foundation -- What countries "have used the negotiations to protect polluting industries"?  Specifically, what tactics are negotiators from these countries using to achieve that goal?  [1,600 words] 

• "Recipe for Disaster: A Review of Persistent Organic Pollutants in Food," by: Michelle Allsopp and others, Greenpeace Research Laboratories, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Exeter, U.K. [3,200 words] 

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