Flint Water Crisis Topic of Final ChemSem
The Herald-Palladium did a write-up on the final ChemSem of the 2015-16 school year. Guest speaker (via web) was Marc Edwards, professor of environmental engineering at Virginia Tech University.
Governments lie.
They don’t care until we make them care.
Blessed are the whistleblowers.
And was it mentioned that governments lie?
That’s how it boils down when you’ve been battling for more than 10 years to get the lead out of America’s water supply, said an activist in the vortex of the Flint water crisis.
“The truth is that none of us are safe as long as (government) agencies act like this,” Marc Edwards, referring to the Flint debacle, told an audience Thursday at Andrews University. “This is bipartisan. We need to change the culture so that whistleblowers are not fired, that the bad actors are fired and that there are external checks on government’s powers. We all deserve better government.”
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