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Probably because it happened to a village of 200 people in the relative middle of nowhere. Remember the Flint water crisis? That was a population-dense city, w
by smoldesu 4y ago
Probably because it happened to a village of 200 people in the relative middle of nowhere.
Remember the Flint water crisis? That was a population-dense city, with multiple school districts all being poisoned by lead and legionnaires disease. Nobody cared about it until it was turned into a political negligence story, then it was all you could see on Fox and CNN...
People just don't really care about this stuff. It's novel from a social media perspective (black plume of smoke occludes forested midwestern town!) but it's not like the media has any shortage of humanitarian crises to report on.
- mc32 4y agoIt's 2,000 people in the town itself and 20,000 within a 10 mile radius. We're quite lucky this did not happen in Pittsburgh or Columbus.
- smoldesu 4y agoAnd Flint's water empties into all 5 lakes. Still not worth talking about polluting the world's largest freshwater body until we can throw darts at a talking head though!
- mc32 4y agoThe amount of basin-wide city waste and industrial waste that ends up there dwarfs the stuff you're getting from Flint.
- smoldesu 4y agoNo, I disagree. Flint was a disaster because it went for years without being addressed - if this has a cleanup process starting less than a week after it happens, it's already being handled better.
- sebkomianos 4y agoHey, 0 people live in the water so it's fine if the oceans get poisoned, right?