johnsonchicklet1993 t1_jd7tgx1 wrote on March 22, 2023 at 1:42 PM

Reply to comment by Tako-Jerome in We need urban food forests in Pittsburgh by fadedrosebud

How fucked is it that the literal earth in our city is contaminated to the point that you might not be able to safely grow your own food in your backyard? We wonder why people think it’s okay to litter so much in our community - well, the literal soil is filled with the garbage that corporations have been spewing into the air for 100+ years. Who is going to pay for that?? (Rhetorical question, because WE are… not the corporations or the crooked politicians who allow the 1% to continue to do business despite showing that they have NO concern for our health and no intention of cleaning up after themselves- Norfolk southern great recent example of this).

dfiler t1_jd9g195 wrote on March 22, 2023 at 7:56 PM

I think the finger has to be pointed back at ourselves. We as individuals are the ones responsible for driving leaded-gas fueled personal automobiles and painting our houses with lead paint. It's clearly us, the individual citizens, who are to blame. If anything, many people argued against regulations when they were first enacted.

Put simply it isn't big business that put lead into our soil. We don't get to blame someone else for this one.

johnsonchicklet1993 t1_jda7203 wrote on March 22, 2023 at 10:56 PM

I genuinely can’t tell if this is sarcastic lol. I’m hoping it is.

dfiler t1_jddhk1v wrote on March 23, 2023 at 4:44 PM

That was genuine, not sarcastic. It is human nature to blame others when we're actually at fault ourselves. Big business didn't put the lead paint in the soil of my yard. If we're going to find someone to blame, it would have to be everyone from previous generations, not just rich/powerful people.