INDEPENDENT UK: Helen Caldicott. "We must act with a sense of dire emergency." ["Why did you ignore her?!?!?!?" your child asks. And you will say ______????)

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/credo--helen-caldicott-424003.html

Credo: Helen Caldicott

The Australian paediatrician was named by the Smithsonian Institute as one of the most influential women in the world. She is a fervent anti-nuclear campaigner

Interview by Julia Stuart

Excerpts:

• I believe that women have the fate of the Earth in the palm of their hands. Some 53 per cent of us are women and we really are pretty wimpish. We don't step up to the plate...
• I believe that money is the root of all evil. When people start believing that materialism will produce ultimate, lasting happiness, it is a sure sign that they will be intensely unhappy. One third of Americans are on anti-depressants. Instead, what they should be doing is lifting their souls, not their faces.
• I believe in the sanctity of nature. I believe we can save the planet. We are smart enough to do that, but we must act with a sense of dire emergency.

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