Whats the worst that could happen

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Case: Did you know anything about the water crisis in Flint, Michigan before beginning this class? What do you think are some of the reasons that something like this could happen? Do you know who makes decisions about the water that YOU drink? Based on what yo know today, without doing any further research, what issues does this crisis raise? Who would you blame or hold accountable for the problems in Flint and how might they be addressed? What kinds of health problems would you worry about if the water in your home was contaminated?

"This is the story of how the City of Flint was poisoned by its own water. It was not because of a natural disaster, or simple negligence, or even because some corner-cutting company was blinded by profit. Instead, a disastrous choice to break a crucial environmental law, followed by eighteen months of delay and cover-up by the city, state, and federal governments, put a staggering number of citizens in peril."

Anna Clark, The Poisoned City, page 6

Consider the above quote. How do issues of race, class and gender enter into the negative health outcomes that impact the "citizens in peril" of whom Clark speaks? What has happened to the flow of influence, information and power in the relationships among Flint's citizens and the people running things? How do citizens suffer when they are lied to by government?

Are they reasonable? Suspicious? Are they honest? If the truth has been concealed, what can pople do? What should they do? If they aren't aware that they are being lied to or manipulated, does it matter? What's the worst that could happen. Feel free to incorporate recent issues in the news in your response to this or focus specifically on the situation in Flint, or both.

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