The EPA estimates that nine million homes in the U.S. have lead pipes.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20665840

President Biden on Tuesday announced $2.6 billion in funding to replace all lead pipes in the United States as part of a new EPA rule that will require lead pipes to be identified and replaced within 10 years using the new funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act.

  • ricecake@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    82·
    2 months ago

    Because we live in a society.

    I don’t know how to convey that you should do things that keep people, particularly children, healthy even if they don’t live in the same municipal tax jurisdiction.

    • basmati@lemmus.orgEnglish
      38·
      2 months ago

      If your thought was shared by society, we wouldn’t have lead pipes to begin with and you wouldn’t have cause to reply so smugly to someone merely suggesting people should get what they vote for.

      • ricecake@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        71·
        2 months ago

        If people thought we lived in a society, than we wouldn’t have used lead pipes in the 1950 or before?
        In an era where we didn’t know there was as much risk as we found out over the following decades?
        What the fuck are you even talking about? Do you know when these pipes were even installed?

        Do you think that people should be held responsible for the votes of their great grandparents? Or, more specifically, that their children should get brain damage because of how their great great grandparents voted?

        What do you think we gain by letting poor communities be potentially poisoned? That hurts all of us.
        Hell, Flint (the prototypical example) didn’t even vote for the people who screwed them over. The state government imposed them on the city against their will.
        I suppose you think they deserve lead poisoning because they didn’t have the good graces to have a flourishing economy after the biggest employer in the city left?