Collection search - Defenders of the dawn: green rights in the Maritimes

From the opening scenes of the film: "For centuries beyond counting, northeastern North America has been the "the dawnlands." Its people, the Wabanaki, are "the people of the dawn." [...] Hello, I'm Silver Donald Cameron. I've been covering environmental issues for more than 40 years, writing and broadcasting and podcasting about the damage we're doing to the air, the water, the forests, the oceans-about pesticides and oil spills, extinctions and global heating. [...] A couple of years ago I heard about environmental rights-the citizen's legal right to clean air and water, and also Mother Nature's legal right to be respected and protected. I thought: that's a tool I could use on any specific issue. There's just one problem: I'm a Canadian. [...] Among the sixteen nations whose citizens do not have environmental rights are North Korea, Oman, China, the United States and Canada."

For audio-visual recordings of this interview, see IDCISN 607819, 607820, 607821, 607822.