Mack, along with research assistant Sarah Wrase, determined that if water rates increase at projected amounts over the next five years, the percentage of households that can’t pay their water bills could triple from 11.9 percent to more than a third. Nearly 14 million households nationwide already struggle to afford water services. An additional 27.18 million — or 8.5 percent of the country’s population — could soon face the same challenges.
“I don’t think we think about this, about what it would mean to not have running water,” Mack told Fusion. Of course, some Americans have experienced it. Water affordability is becoming an increasingly critical issue in cities across the country, including Philadelphia, Atlanta, Seattle, and Detroit. In Philadelphia, an estimated four out of 10 water accounts are past due. Atlanta and Seattle have some of the highest water rates in the country. And in Detroit, a campaign to cut off delinquent residents has stopped water and sewage service for 50,000 households since 2014. It’s a reality Mack thinks Americans in other parts of the country could face.
Everywhere you look there are indices indicating the K-shift is progressing, and we are heading deeper into K-selection. Expect Conservatism to increase further, at least until the Trump-boom kicks in.
For now, these are all people whose brains are being trained to view resources as needing of conservation. Waste is being conditioned to be an amygdala trigger, and amygdalae are developing to trigger more forcefully in response to the idea of the hedonism of others. It is a real reprogramming of brains, which will continue so long as water is not declared a human right, and made free.
Spread r/K Theory, because if it spreads you won’t have to pay Laquanisha’s water bills
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You are like the ham radio anchor in “These Final Hours”. The end is upon us, and we all know it, yet your voice brings comfort.
PS: if you haven’t yet watched said Aussie flick, you must. It’s well done and profound.
Water isn’t a human right- people in Africa walk miles to get water- surely the denizens of Detroit can do the same. Now, on the other hand when people in Flint, MI are told their water is safe by the EPA- and it contains IQ debasing amounts of lead- that is disgusting. Either the EPA needs to go, as it is funded by taxes- or it needs to do its job- which it didn’t. That means EPA workers need to be fired or jailed for negligence. Democrats willfully ignored this, and instead blamed the first Republican they could find, the MI Governor.
I remember a few years ago the boss of Nestlé saying “clean drinking water is not a human right”
Initially at the time GF and I were outraged….(still swallowing the red pill) It took us a few days to work out that he was right