• @bolexforsoup
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    615 days ago

    Just look at the cancer rates. Or the property value. Or the people.

    Cancer Alley is aptly named. Whatever we think the status is, it’s worse. It is inhumane.

      • @protist@mander.xyz
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        These are some of the most conservative people in the country living here. The overwhelming majority of them want absolutely nothing to change. When someone gets cancer, they turn to “god” for help. Any effort to make their environment cleaner or healthier would be immediately denounced as “government overreach” or “socialism.”

        Source: am from South Louisiana

        • @Chuymatt@beehaw.org
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          Bingo. I’m from a similar state, and it was awful how they would actually defend the ones that were destroying their land and their health.

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        I guess I’m missing the joke here

        • @Chuymatt@beehaw.org
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          215 days ago

          The reason these places have all the producers of the carcinogens is because they’re poor and have no political power., And they have historically been predominantly black.

          • @bolexforsoup
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            215 days ago

            Well that I get, I live right by NORCO lol the way the comment was written was just a little perplexing.