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considerations to influence our curiosities or our abilities to question whatever it is that we want to question.

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Our current system of environmental protection laws and government here in the United States of America

is truly fundamentally failing us.

And that's because the way the laws are written and the way the laws are implemented,

they are written in a way that accepts pollution and environmental degradation as a foregone conclusion.

Hey, it's Kamea Shane, and this is Green Dreamer, a podcast exploring our paths to holistic healing,

eco-regeneration, and true abundance and wellness for all.

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Today we have with us here, Maya Van Rossum, the founder of Green Amendments for the

Generations, which is a grassroots nonprofit organization inspiring a nationwide movement to secure

constitutional recognition and protection of environmental rights in every state in the U.S.

and ultimately at the federal level as well.

Van Rossum is also the Delaware Riverkeeper leading the watershed-based advocacy organization,

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