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I can't believe the stories about Flint's water. A country with the most powerful economy in the world with such humanitarian and infrastructure problems. Is the MSM making it out to be worse than it is?
Why don't they just go back to using the cleaner water? They said the problem arose from using the dirtier water.
Why don't they just go back to using the cleaner water? They said the problem arose from using the dirtier water.
Does it bother anyone else that Michigan is asking everyone else in the country to pay for cleaning up this mess? Why don't I hear the GOP presidential candidates raising this as an example of big government?
The reality is, this case is just the tip of the iceberg. While the chemistry issues in this case are a little unusual, the state of infrastructure on both sides of the border is less than comforting. It's all buried, so out of sight, out of mind... but that doesn't mean it isn't aging and failing. People would be shocked if they saw video inspections of storm and sanitary lines... and the nastiness that lives in water mains.Yes. Especially since they are saying it will cost $1 billion to fix now.
Wow, what a stretch. It's a wonder humankind has made it this far. Of course, questioning a theory that relates to the formation of the universe and life that followed is getting people killed. Al Gore predicted a great calamity to befall the world back in 2005 and this month was the time it was all to come to fruition. Does that kind of rhetoric and exaggeration make him ignorant or does he get a free pass? Would spending oneself into bankruptcy and triggering a possible worldwide economic collapse to hopefully prevent a global mean rise in temperature of a fraction of a degree be indicative of intelligence as opposed to ignorance?I have to admit that I haven't followed this story very closely. I do understand what's going on, but don't necessary know who or what is to blame. But, I will say this, as it appears to be a case of willful ignorance in some case or another. And that is why my friends, you have seen me so short with people who deny climate change or evolution. Willful ignorance is not only slows necessary human advancement in science and technology, it can kill. The article Ignorance Kills argues that point way better than I can. But instead of just asking why a certain Governor or bureaucrat failed to have a basic understanding of something, why not ask the more important question is why do we have so many presential candidates that deny evolution, or why we have a Senator who leads the Environmental commitee use a snowball to disprove climate change, or why there is a Congressman on the House Science Commitee that says that evolution and the Big Bang are "lies from the pit of hell", or why a Congressman attacked the NOAA for issuing a report on climate change?
The big thing is, what can really be done here to combat willful ignorance towards science and the environment? At this point, I really don't know. Because every good idea I've heard has already been used and isn't working, the ignorance just gets more vitriolic and aggressive with time.
Ignorance does kill. It killed the people in Flint. And ignorance will kill more if we don't stand up and deal with it.
Because they're trying to avoid being maligned as racists is my guess since the progressives will immediately attempt to change the narrative of the argument.Does it bother anyone else that Michigan is asking everyone else in the country to pay for cleaning up this mess? Why don't I hear the GOP presidential candidates raising this as an example of big government?
This, and other variants of the concept are very much in use today. In some cases, 'pipe bursting' is done where a larger pipe is required to provide higher flows. It's still not cheap, but compared to the cost of open-cutting a major road... yeah, it's a good deal.