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Strategy for a Better Future: GET INVOLVED To PROTECT SB County Air, Food & Water It seems like a no-brainer — we must protect our air, food and water resources from toxic chemicals. If we don’t, we will most likely experience expensive medical bills, unnecessary suffering and premature death. This is not fear-mongering. I know this first-hand after having lived and worked in China for 20 years from 1993 to 2013. WHY I CARE My wife and I moved to Shanghai in 1993 for professional reasons and became pioneers in management consulting by establishing China’s first wholly foreign owned management consultancy. Ten years later there were 130,000 consulting companies in China. Our work in the 1990’s afforded us opportunities to develop relationships with both staff and clients, with their ages ranging from late 20’s to the 50’s. We travelled throughout the country to all of the coastal cities as well as to many cities in the interior of the country. In those early days the shift from a centrally planned to a market driven economy was just getting started and people were living well into their 80’s and 90’s. However, by 2013 more and more were dying prematurely in their