Flint, Michigan is located seventy miles northwest of Detroit Michigan. Flint,Michigan is located 70 miles northwest of Detroit. The city has a population of 100,000. General Motors, was founded in Flint in 1908. Flint’s Nickname is “Vehicle City” and was a manufacturing powerhouse for General Motors. At its peak, nearly ninty thousand people worked forContinue reading “Poison Water: Flint Michigan “Enviromental Racism””
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We, the peoples of the Amazon, are full of fear. Soon you will be too!
Non-indigenous peoples have invaded our lands and are now burning even those small parts of the forests where we live, that you have left for us.’ Forest fires in Altamira, Pará state, Brazil. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images By: Raoni Metuktire/UK Guardian You destroy our lands, poison the planet and sow death, because you are lost. AndContinue reading “We, the peoples of the Amazon, are full of fear. Soon you will be too!”
Electric Cars Are Evil (The Economics of Car Production)
2019 Hyundai Kona Electric By: John Voelcker\Greencarreports.com “Electric cars are disasters. They are evil.” Not something you’d hear every day, certainly not from a powerful executive in the auto industry. Yet those are the words of Ha Bu-young, head of the Hyundai motor union, both the largest and the most powerful union in SouthContinue reading “Electric Cars Are Evil (The Economics of Car Production)”
Flint and America’s Corroded Trust
It’s not just about pipes. And it’s not just about a city in Michigan Sabrina Hernandez bathes her granddaughter, Hazel, with bottled water. By: Charlie LeDuff/Mother Jones It’s been the subject of protests and debates, but if anything is improving in Flint, Michigan, it’s hard for any of us on the ground to see.Continue reading “Flint and America’s Corroded Trust”
