I feel like not enough people are talking about (part 2)
The lack of clean water in America. Sure, we've all heard of Flint. And no, we wouldn't want an oil sludge pipeline to burst near water sources. But I don't think we quite grasp what those water sources mean to us. Those pictures you see of other countries where people have to go fetch water for their houses that make you think to yourself, "Well, at least we don't live in a third world country," are misleading you into thinking that even though it gets bad here, at least we don't have that kind of generational bad. We do.
There are at least two million Americans (maybe more depending on what you read) who do not have running water in their homes. Many people are living here as they do in developing nations, having to collect water in rain buckets. 1.6 million Americans don't have indoor plumbing or leave near a wastewater treatment. It's weird to me that we talk of food insecurity and food deserts so often, but this one huge fundamental still goes under so many radars. That problem is only going to get bigger if it gets ignored. Native American reservations are notorious for their lack of indoor plumbing, but other minorities, mainly blacks and Latinx, go without at roughly twice the rate of whites.
Nestle doesn't think clean water is a human right. But really. Think real hard a sec about what your life would be like without it. Now think real hard about what we could be doing differently. There are so many options. This isn't about "being woke". We need to start adapting.