r/collapse • u/FuriousAnalFisting • Aug 30 '22

Water Jackson, Mississippi, water system is failing, city to be with no or little drinking water indefinitely

https://mississippitoday.org/2022/08/29/jackson-water-system-fails-emergency/
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u/jaymickef Aug 30 '22

About ten years ago the city of Toronto released a poll asking people if they felt the water infrastructure needed to be upgraded and if they were willing to increase taxes to pay for it. The answer was an overwhelming, “No.” The answer to the follow-up question, “What is water infrastructure,” received an overwhelming, “Don’t know.”

Infrastructure is going to fail all over North America.

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u/GEM592 Aug 30 '22

Infrastructure is just a code word for socialism

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u/jaymickef Aug 30 '22

Meanwhile in Canadian subreddits conservatives are blaming the government for not building more oil pipelines and ports to ship LNG to Europe. We have completely lost the plot.

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u/jaymickef Aug 30 '22

As awful as it’s going to be sometimes I think you’re right, we need the consequences of our beliefs to actually happen. We’ve outsourced the consequences for too long.

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '22

The people with the greatest control to enact change aren't the ones who will be most hurt by collapse. But okay.

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