Get the Lead Out!

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"It was the largest smokestack in the country, and there were people in town who proudly proclaimed we live in a place with the largest smokestack," Jim Kelly says.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122779177

Aerial view of the Asarco plant in El Paso, Texas, in 1985.

How is it that nearly every time I look into an environmental issue, there is a LARGE population of people that support such abuses?  Imagine your child is experiencing slowed reflexes, a reduced IQ, and motor impairment caused by the smoke and chemicals being released by another country?  Yet, while this was occurring there are folks just across the border that were "proud" of the one thing that is causing your child to suffer.  Please read this article, because it may serve to instill a line of questioning that is desperately needed.  Where is the psychology in this.  How is it that a multi-billion dollar corporation can get the majority of a city to support something that is hurting their neighbor?  Why was this place in business for nearly 100 years?  Why weren't our laws protecting these people?  DISCRETION?


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