What do we value? Do we value life or do we value profit? If the latter is true, we’re doomed, writes Robert Koehler.
These are deeply troubling times, and no doubt there are matters of greater peril for humanity than the right of construction and other workers to drink water on the job, but when I began reading about this and related issues, something began tearing at my insides. Water is life! I could barely imagine not having access to it. As theClimate scientists have projected that Texas summers will get increasingly hot if climate change continues, exacerbating the public health risk.
’ Office of Genocide Protection addresses that very question, noting that many scholars trace the root of the concept to the late 18th century, in reference to slavery and the slave trade, as well as the atrocities of European colonialism in Africa and elsewhere. “This administration is incrementally trying to move us backwards into a dark time in this nation. When plantation owners and agrarian mentalities prevailed.”
“I’m afraid to take a shower or even splash water on my face. We were told not to let water get into our eyes.”
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