Alan Gorg's articles

In America and the other industrialized nations, we need to focus beyond our own energy and environmental problems and consider also the sufferings of others.

Higher gas prices, more smog and pollution, the threat of global warming, and the many wars ongoing make the production of oil a personal concern for all of us. We worry over the danger of accidents and radioactive contamination from nuclear energy.

What few think about or even recognize is that native peoples around the world are suffering pollution, impoverishment, even sickness and death, from exploitation of their lands by oil and mining interests.