Social justice concerns are an acceptable motive for collective action, but they don't free us from the requirement that our infrastructure investments make financial sense.
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Fixing the lead problem sounds good and all, but it’s little more than infrastructure whack-a-mole given how much other stuff is deteriorating at an incredible pace.
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The worst part of all of this is that it happened to a poor and largely Black community. But they set an example for what citizen activism should be.
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This is how we do business in America. We’ve dedicated our resources to building new things with little regard to fixing it first.
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Chuck and Rachel discuss upcoming trips to Burlington, VT and Los Angeles, as well as the Flint water crisis and pipe maintenance issues throughout the country.
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It's possible that large parts of Flint could be served with really high quality water for drinking and sanitation at a fraction of the cost while preserving the existing, lead-infested system for fire fighting purposes only.
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