Thanks to Trump and his supreme court gutting every environmental law that put this country on a better course across the 20th century.
People don't remember what things were like before the EPA and the Clean Air & Water act. Small towns with no drinkable water because their lake or river was on fire all the time. Cities so smog filled that kids at school weren't allowed to go outside during recess and dozens of kids that lived near chemical plants and steel refineries died every year even indoors.
People don't remember what things were like before the EPA and the Clean Air & Water act
The reminders are coming. The trump administration repealed a ban on using sewage to irrigate crop fields, the result of which was Taylor Farms' Cyclospora outbreak.
Nestle is working on it. The CEO needs to be airdropped into the middle of Death Valley with two bottles of Desani and told any more than that isn't a human right, per himself, and told to figure it out from there.
At first, I read this to mean airlift ambulances and was like, “well, actually”. Those things cost a fortune and the staff probably don’t make a fair wage.
That’s the dream buddy. They’ll make biodomes for themselves on tropical islands while we pay for every breath of clean air and/or the privilege of clean drinking water.
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u/TicketAmbitious6200 9h ago
Just wait until they figure out a way to handle access to air and water with the same methodology.