I hope you found that article I linked interesting.
The short of what I was referring to was that fracking does a number of things to our potable water: as you said it's a thirsty process. so one of the things it does is pulls water at incredible amounts and drops homeowners water tables. Farbin pointed out that he has a well that's only 75 feet deep. I've read and seen reports of people having to drill as deep as 300 feet to get to water.
The corporations also don't really have to abide by boundaries. If I lived next to you and we each had a well and we each used a fair share of the water *under* our property lines then we'd probably coexist just fine. but if I take my straw and send it on a diagonal *under* your property and drill down hundreds of feet below your well, I can tap "your" water resulting in your well going dry.
in addition to just water use, these companies have been exempted from regulation in regards to how much they use *and* the impacts they have on the water table. now we're getting reports that people's wells that still work are polluted and this has been attributed to the toxic slew that results from fracking.
My other point was about nuclear waste. If you'd like to look up more on that subject check out what's going on with Hanford Nuclear Site in Washington.
My overall point was that private corporations are sucking and fucking our nation's potable water and the issues we're seeing in detroit are going to become nationwide. over time we're going to see these kinds of issue hitting impoverished communities and communities of color harder than other communities.
you can see how this applies in detroit, or for family ranchers in texas, or small farmers in imperial valley. across the board people without a lot of politics, social, and economic capital are going to get the short end of the stick.
so unless you are part of an extremely small sliver of this nation's wealthy, you have an oar to row in this boat along with the UN's position that drinking water should be a basic human right. because if it isn't, then don't expect to live long in the next couple decades unless you have a *lot* of disposable income to spend on things like drinking water.
one could say it falls under the penumbra of rights in the US Constitution. one will *not* say that, unfortunately, because the USSC is squarely on the side of corporations for the time being, but consistent with how past rulings found that even though the right to privacy is not actually in the Constitution it wouldn't make sense to have those other rights without the right to privacy. That's the penumbra (penumbra is like a hazy outline that kind of shadows the sun during an eclipse. you can see the edges of it even if it's not quite right in front of you.) of rights that the court has established must exist for the others to make any sense.
likewise, it doesn't make sense to have a right to bear arms or right to freedom of speech if we don't have a right to drink water. it's hard to comprehend how one could secure a right to carry a gun and defend personal liberty if that liberty didn't include the right to do the most basic function of human life--drinking water.
The short of what I was referring to was that fracking does a number of things to our potable water: as you said it's a thirsty process. so one of the things it does is pulls water at incredible amounts and drops homeowners water tables. Farbin pointed out that he has a well that's only 75 feet deep. I've read and seen reports of people having to drill as deep as 300 feet to get to water.
The corporations also don't really have to abide by boundaries. If I lived next to you and we each had a well and we each used a fair share of the water *under* our property lines then we'd probably coexist just fine. but if I take my straw and send it on a diagonal *under* your property and drill down hundreds of feet below your well, I can tap "your" water resulting in your well going dry.
in addition to just water use, these companies have been exempted from regulation in regards to how much they use *and* the impacts they have on the water table. now we're getting reports that people's wells that still work are polluted and this has been attributed to the toxic slew that results from fracking.
My other point was about nuclear waste. If you'd like to look up more on that subject check out what's going on with Hanford Nuclear Site in Washington.
My overall point was that private corporations are sucking and fucking our nation's potable water and the issues we're seeing in detroit are going to become nationwide. over time we're going to see these kinds of issue hitting impoverished communities and communities of color harder than other communities.
you can see how this applies in detroit, or for family ranchers in texas, or small farmers in imperial valley. across the board people without a lot of politics, social, and economic capital are going to get the short end of the stick.
so unless you are part of an extremely small sliver of this nation's wealthy, you have an oar to row in this boat along with the UN's position that drinking water should be a basic human right. because if it isn't, then don't expect to live long in the next couple decades unless you have a *lot* of disposable income to spend on things like drinking water.
one could say it falls under the penumbra of rights in the US Constitution. one will *not* say that, unfortunately, because the USSC is squarely on the side of corporations for the time being, but consistent with how past rulings found that even though the right to privacy is not actually in the Constitution it wouldn't make sense to have those other rights without the right to privacy. That's the penumbra (penumbra is like a hazy outline that kind of shadows the sun during an eclipse. you can see the edges of it even if it's not quite right in front of you.) of rights that the court has established must exist for the others to make any sense.
likewise, it doesn't make sense to have a right to bear arms or right to freedom of speech if we don't have a right to drink water. it's hard to comprehend how one could secure a right to carry a gun and defend personal liberty if that liberty didn't include the right to do the most basic function of human life--drinking water.
Reading comprehension for an educator leaves something to be desired, I said 17ft., not 75ft.
Yes, by calling them "Blacks" as opposed to the accepted terminology that makes this group inclusive of the American concept, ideals and system, you are continuing to make them what could be considered a separate but equal group, as opposed to a part of an all-inclusive group. Sounds like propagating segregation to me.
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