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The problem is present in America, per the article. ‘In the early 2000s, New York City's health department noticed a perplexing blip: A surprisingly large numb
by lostlogin 1y ago
The problem is present in America, per the article.
‘In the early 2000s, New York City's health department noticed a perplexing blip: A surprisingly large number of Bangladeshi children in New York City were showing up in their lead database.’
For the cost of the research mentioned in the article, that seems a small sum to pay relative to the result achieved.
‘Soft power’ is not valued by many anymore, but cut it all and it’ll be interesting to look back in a generation or two and see the result.
- ericmay 1y agoPersonally I do value soft power, I specifically take issue with taking away agency from other people and throwing it at the feet of the United States and saying “this is your fault and your problem to fix”. It’s counter productive and that’s why we got rid of USAID. Enough Americans were annoyed about about these exact things. I disagree but sympathize. I’m not actually sure that the juice is worth the squeeze though with respect to your first paragraph and I think you are stretching. The better argument instead is just the appeal to soft power or Conservative “we need to save the world” sensibilities aka Bush Jr. and AIDS for example.
- account42 1y agoThe article also states that it was mainly tumeric the affected persons imported themselves, not that there is a lead problem with tumeric on US shelves.