Shakima Thomas tucks her son Bryce, 4, into his wagon to go to the park in Newark, NJ. They must use bottled water and a water filter at home after contamination was revealed by environmentalists.
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When Shakima Thomas came home one day last October, she found a piece of paper wedged in her door telling her the water in her home could be contaminated with lead.
Thomas, a social worker in Newark, New Jersey, knew what it meant – that the tap water she and her four-year-old son Bryce had been drinking could have profound effects on their health.
“My kid loves water – he loves it – so it was difficult telling him not to drink the water,” Thomas said. “He’s four years old and doesn’t understand.”
A century-long war to remove lead from Americans’ daily lives has been successful on some fronts, but a lack of regulation, political will and funding has meant the contamination of drinking water remains a public health crisis.
There “is no known level of […]
This the result of government policies being driven by right-to-lifers who believe life begins at conception and ends at birth. Love the little babies in the womb once out you’re on your own, you know personal responsibility and all. Where is the Christian compassion for the little ones their families and by extension our society as a whole.
Maybe it’s time to state that based on empirical evidence it is not just the children of the nation American’s hate…but all children, all peoples other than themselves and indeed the evidence of alcohol/drug abuse, chronic lifestyle induced disease, denial of climate change and much more, indicates…Americans hate themselves.
We humans seem to be able to handle incredible suffering and collective pain witness Syria or DRC. Under dreadful conditions more often than not people treat each other with kindness and compassion. Yet it seems when we have been too prosperous for too long our species falls into a sort material entrancement, profit above all else catches us. We like our shiny bright objects, our convenient comfortable lives and we will fight to keep it and to get more, always more. We become sick in all the ways you indicate.
Americans will not be able to maintain current lifestyles for much longer as the whole debt fueled structure is near collapse. Trump is the perfect character to push the whole mess over the cliff. Then what?