{Regional Rats} Living Under The Plume Of Environmental Permits
May 13th, 2010
Like most fence line industrial communities Northwest Indiana’s political attitudes toward environmental issues are determined by local industrial interests.
Northwest Indiana is a Big Oil & Big Steel region.
When faced with the kinds of environmental devastration that I have illustrated on this blog elected officials have the all too familiar instinct to double-down on their love of these industries.
A simple thought - Solve the environmental problems for fence-line industrial communities and you solve the problem for middle-class America and the causes of global warming.
Most politicians are fully committed to the Big Money interests they represent. They cannot be persuaded of anything important. What we have to do is replace them and keep replacing them. We must give corruption its reward.