In Jackson, Mississippi, a water crisis of unparalleled scale
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In Jackson, Mississippi, a water crisis of unparalleled scale
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#3"Gift article" link without paywall: https://wapo.st/3KMLjMB
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Here is a "gift article" from NYT. Not sure why they don't shorten links.
Mississippi Crisis Highlights Climate Threat to Drinking Water Nationwide https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/01/us/mississippi-water-clim...
Re: In Jackson, Mississippi, a water crisis of unparalleled scale
#5By all measures, this is due to the kind of neglect and mismanagement one would expect to see in an underdeveloped or war-torn country, not in a city inside a state that is part of the most powerful country on earth. And Jackson is the state's largest city and as well as its capital!
It must be so embarrassing for the politicians who have been running Mississippi. They've done a truly terrible, horrible job on this.
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#6By all measures, this is due to the kind of neglect and mismanagement one would expect to see in an underdeveloped or war-torn country, not in a city inside a state that is part of the most powerful country on earth. And Jackson is the state's largest city and as well as its capital ! It must be so embarrassing for the politicians who have been running Mississippi. They've done a truly terrible, horrible job on this.
You would think that, but history tells us that in Mississippi nothing will change.
Re: In Jackson, Mississippi, a water crisis of unparalleled scale
#7By all measures, this is due to the kind of neglect and mismanagement one would expect to see in an underdeveloped or war-torn country, not in a city inside a state that is part of the most powerful country on earth. And Jackson is the state's largest city and as well as its capital ! It must be so embarrassing for the politicians who have been running Mississippi. They've done a truly terrible, horrible job on this.
> not in a city inside a state that is part of the most powerful country on earth
Why not? There are plenty of ecological catastrophes in China and were in the Soviet Union when it existed. I suspect “powerful” isn’t exactly the variable you’re trying to describe, and you actually mean something like “most developed”. But stories like this prove that the US indeed isn’t the most developed country in the world.
Re: In Jackson, Mississippi, a water crisis of unparalleled scale
#8By all measures, this is due to the kind of neglect and mismanagement one would expect to see in an underdeveloped or war-torn country, not in a city inside a state that is part of the most powerful country on earth. And Jackson is the state's largest city and as well as its capital ! It must be so embarrassing for the politicians who have been running Mississippi. They've done a truly terrible, horrible job on this.
Us Southerners love to shoot ourselves in the foot. We do it every single election cycle and then make disparaging remarks about states like California.
Re: In Jackson, Mississippi, a water crisis of unparalleled scale
#9By all measures, this is due to the kind of neglect and mismanagement one would expect to see in an underdeveloped or war-torn country, not in a city inside a state that is part of the most powerful country on earth. And Jackson is the state's largest city and as well as its capital ! It must be so embarrassing for the politicians who have been running Mississippi. They've done a truly terrible, horrible job on this.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K7fgB0m_y2I
Phil Ochs - Here's to the State of Mississippi (1965)
Re: In Jackson, Mississippi, a water crisis of unparalleled scale
#10By all measures, this is due to the kind of neglect and mismanagement one would expect to see in an underdeveloped or war-torn country, not in a city inside a state that is part of the most powerful country on earth. And Jackson is the state's largest city and as well as its capital ! It must be so embarrassing for the politicians who have been running Mississippi. They've done a truly terrible, horrible job on this.
As much as we like to blame government, and politicians - at the end of the day, ll... We are the government. We are the politicians. We are the inept, lazy society who has let it come to this. We are the ones fighting amongst ourselves, unable to converse and work with opposing viewpoints.