“Environmental Protection Preacher” (環保弘法師) was more than a nickname, though, it was Nien’s actual job title when the full-time activist moonlighted as an environmental writer and speaker for a Buddhist magazine in 1990. The cover of Nien Hsi-lin’s biography, Environmental Protection Preacher, shows him during his anti-Dupont days between 1986 and 1987. The success of the anti-Dupont movement was a pivotal moment in Taiwan’s environmental protection history. Just five months after Dupont scrapped its Lukang project, the Executive Yuan upgraded the Department of Health’s Environmental Protection Bureau to an independent Environmental Protection Administration, greatly expanding its scope and responsibilities. “If Taiwan becomes a complete wasteland, what meaning would independence or unification have?”LATE-LIFE AWAKENINGA screenshot from the Lukang Residents’ Anti-Dupont Movement documentary filmed by Green Team.

Source: Taipei Times August 01, 2020 15:56 UTC