So it is reassuring to consider a project such as Flint, a documentary film five years in the making. “We’re in a post-truth world,” Professor Marc Edwards of Virginia Tech University, who helped expose the water crisis, tells Baxter while driving one night. We have just altered the life course trajectory of an entire generation of Flint children.”Experts also linked the water to Legionnaires’ disease, a type of pneumonia. Residents of Flint – where two in five people live in poverty – are still fighting in the Michigan supreme court for the right to sue state officials. When I was in Flint and the Grenfell Tower fire happened, I remember thinking that this is America’s Grenfell on the ground.”

Source: The Guardian March 10, 2020 06:11 UTC