Steppin' Out Of Babylon: Radio Interviews
Leonardo Cerdo
- Autor: Vários
- Narrador: Vários
- Editor: Podcast
- Duración: 0:27:13
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Leonardo Cerdo, a young indigenous Ecuadorian, has been an activist since he was nine years old. He works with issues of the terrible environmental and human health issues in Ecuador caused by Shell, Texaco and Chevron who have been drilling for oil in Ecuador for thirty years or more, mostly in the northern part of the Amazon region. For twenty years people were afraid and not allowed to speak up until recently. Due to the extensive and horrible effects of oil development, many groups are now speaking up against the companies as they move south causing terrible skin, breathing, pregnancy problems and very, very high cancer rates for children as well as adults. Where the oil companies go there are swamps filled with toxic water and huge toxic pits--all together more than the size of Manhattan. Now people need medicines to battle these new sicknesses with pharmaceuticals (for which they need money) since their local plant herbal remedies are also polluted. People’s life styles have changed and are more money c