Petrochemical manufacturing plant. Photo from Wikimedia Commons Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 from Sept 7, 2008. By Naveena Sadasivam / Grist Since the 1980s, the 85-mile stretch of …
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.”
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.
Who cares. They are just poor.
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
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.
I guess I’m missing the joke here
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.
Well that I get, I live right by NORCO lol the way the comment was written was just a little perplexing.
Exasperated and sarcastic with a dose of compassion fatigue.