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“Fear Is the Most Toxic of Gases”

Personalities from across the Americas share their visions as part of World Environment Day, celebrated annually on June 5. In an exclusive for Tierramérica, they respond to the question: What is the local or global environmental problem that worries you most?

Elena Poniatowska

Elena Poniatowska, Mexican author
“Water. It is truly painful to see, in the most marginalized settlements of Mexico City, the elderly, women and children wait in line with their buckets at the few available water sources, and then struggling to carry their heavy pails under a scorching sun. The lack of water is a source of disease and death. If droughts devastate the countryside, the rural residents feel deprived of their water by the city. To die of thirst, as happens to many Mexican emigrants who try to enter the United States illegally to seek a better future, is one of the worst deaths. Tierramérica is doing the right thing in calling attention to the major environmental challenges.”

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World Environment Day 2003

World Environment Day 2003 is dedicated to a crucial element for the survival of civilization and nature alike: water. The message for this awareness-raising event is that we must do everything possible to conserve this natural resource and to improve its distribution among the world's people.

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