We need to act now to protect our children and the environment. We won't have as great an opportunity to protect our kids and the environment for years to come. This election year, Physicians for Social Responsibility proposes a platform for strengthening environmental safeguards that we believe every candidate for office will want to endorse. Preventing disease, rather than managing or treating it after it occurs, makes good sense. The public's health comes first.
Environmental decisions ought to be based on the best available scientific and medical information.
Act only with the informed consent of the patient. The public has the right to be informed and to participate in decisions affecting their health and well-being. Pollution has no boundaries. Responsibility for maintaining a safe environment does not stop at local, state, or national borders, but extends to the global community. With these principles in mind, PSR proposes a comprehensive program of environmental reforms to better safeguard our children and the environment that supports them.