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Jeremy Rifkin speaking at International Earth Day Protest outside United Nations Plaza

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Title:
Jeremy Rifkin speaking at International Earth Day Protest outside United Nations Plaza
Description:
This video contains a speech by political scientist and economist Jeremy Rifkin made during the International Earth Day Protest outside the United Nations Plaza in 1989. He names the other locations all over the world where environmental protests were taking place in solidarity, and emphasized how the industrial use CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) would no longer be accepted.
Topics:
Animal Protection
Subjects:
Chlorofluorocarbons
Demonstrations
Earth Day
Economists
Environmentalism
Political science
Speeches, addresses, etc.
Original Format:
Video8, sound, color
Item identifier:
mc00339-0033
Speaker:
Yarrow, Peter, 1938- more info on Yarrow, Peter, 1938- 
Created Date:
Genre:
Filmed speeches
Names:
United Nations more info on United Nations 
Rifkin, Jeremy more info on Rifkin, Jeremy 
Location:
New York (N.Y.)