Film: If you Love this Planet & Greenpeace's Greatest Hits
Sunday, 05 Nov 1989 at 3:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Environmental activist Helen Caldicott traces the development of atomic weapons and the immediate and long-term medical and environmental impact their use would have in the film If You Love this Planet. Footage from civil defense films and of the Hiroshima survivors is also included.Greenpeace's Greatest Hits shows the non-violent confrontational actions used by Greenpeace to stop the killing of endangered whales, the spread of man-made pollutants and other assaults on our environment.
Part of the World Affairs Series
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