the free market doesn't build schools on toxic waste dumps. govts do though. Knowing full well what they are building on.
Very fair point. I think government decision making and complacency in the way these communities have been treated really does deserve a lot more scrutiny.
We know that with Flint, there is strong evidence that the state government knew the full extent of the situation and turned a blind eye.
There is no "easy" way to fix an issue like this, now that people will be suffering the consequences for the rest of their lives. A generation of people with cognitive deficits and behavioral problems. It really makes you hope that we would stop something like this from ever happening again - but, well, there's cause for pessimism on that front.
