(From Keynote
speaker, Sandra Steingraber, PHD at the First World
Conference on Breast Cancer, held in Ontario, Canada,
in July 1997.)
"There was once a village that overlooked a
beautiful river. Every so often, a drowning person
floated by, and the villagers who lived there did
their best to save her. As time went by, the numbers
of people caught in the river's swift current began
to increase markedly, so the villagers set about
developing ever more elaborate technologies to
resuscitate them. So preoccupied were these heroic
villagers with rescue that they never thought to look
upstream to see what was pushing the victims
in."
Quote from the book, "Living downstream: An
ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment"
By Sandra Steingraber, Published by Addison, Wesley,
Longman Inc. Jan. 1997.
