Environmental Racism: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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  • @maargenbx1454
    @maargenbx1454 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5845

    The reporter was 100% correct in asking the man “why don’t you move”? So many idiots would watch the report and think the same thing. Asking the question gives the man a chance to answer it directly, give voice to his frustration and make his quandary clear. The question wasn’t an accusation, it was an opportunity.

    • @SoulShatterz
      @SoulShatterz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +474

      Makes me think of the Ben Shapiro talk where he just argued that rising water levels wasn't a problem cuz people would just sell their house and move.
      th-cam.com/video/RLqXkYrdmjY/w-d-xo.html

    • @UnboxingAlyss
      @UnboxingAlyss 2 ปีที่แล้ว +289

      I was wondering this, actually. Was she clueless, or what she giving him a chance to lay it all out there who would ask out of genuine cluelessness.

    • @maargenbx1454
      @maargenbx1454 2 ปีที่แล้ว +134

      @@SoulShatterz Thanks so much for this link - at first I thought it was a link to a Ben Shapiro talk, which I overdose on in about three minutes so I was very, very wary. Turned out to be very helpful. Ben Shapiro makes me want to grab an axe too.

    • @ryanbauer3680
      @ryanbauer3680 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@SoulShatterz Yeah, because Ben Shapiro is an idiot who only convinces people he's smart by talking fast.

    • @Rudyelf1
      @Rudyelf1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      I will say that his answer wasn’t enough to convince me. People get up and walk thousands of miles for an opportunity. That is the immigrant mentality. Meanwhile this guy is waiting for someone to do something. Well, no one is coming buddy.

  • @taserdonut
    @taserdonut 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1767

    "When people aren't scripted, you can really learn what they believe and what they think." This is one of my favorite sentences now

    • @trangender7588
      @trangender7588 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dems are authoritarian race hustling 🐖🐖🐖. Bhutan is the happiest and healthiest country in the world...no democrats live there.

    • @RelentlessOhiox
      @RelentlessOhiox 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      But it's common sense?

    • @FlynTie
      @FlynTie 2 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      @@RelentlessOhiox If it were, PR departments & agencies would not exist.

    • @AbhayPeshin
      @AbhayPeshin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Say the guy who does a scripted show! Lol the irony!

    • @garym3839
      @garym3839 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      This coming from a show where someone is being scripted to tell you that somehow the environment, you know the thing without a sentient thought. Controlling other people on its land that do have sentient thought to stay there. Even though they have the freedom to leave the land that's keeping them there it's super racist powers #evenAmericansoilisracist

  • @EliteCuttlefish
    @EliteCuttlefish 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5279

    Arguably more important than the impacts on lifespan are the impacts on 'healthspan'. Losing out on two years you would have otherwise lived is horrible, but if you have to spend an extra ten years in and out of care due to a build-up of health problems, all of a sudden you are looking at bills that directly and indirectly effect your family. One of the many examples of 'expensive to be poor.'

    • @MrUrbanApollo
      @MrUrbanApollo 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      You realize there were white districts right next to those black districts that have the exact same life expectancy rates right? Dude John Oliver has an agenda how have y’all not noticed this I’m Afro Latino and noticed this along time ago fuck this dude 🖕🏾

    • @markpashia7067
      @markpashia7067 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Also lead poisoning that destroys brain cells. The collective IQ loss and increased tendencies to violence are immense. But they just see it as more cheap prison labor and more beds filled in privatized prisons. The rank callousness is beyond the pale. Racism to the extreme.

    • @jonstephenson5436
      @jonstephenson5436 2 ปีที่แล้ว +190

      Yes! This is something that nobody seems to factor into any decisions. People who eat healthy and exercise only live a few more years, so why do it!? Because it’s about the quality of those years as well. Such an overlooked point. People also missed this concept when it comes to COVID

    • @Hagunemnon
      @Hagunemnon 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jonstephenson5436 THANK YOU. Yeah, you might not end up a Herman Cain Award recipient, but if you get COVID w/o even the baseline vaccine, you're in for a rough rest of your life with lungs like those of a 90 year-old chain smoker. I don't enjoy havin' to stay in the house all the damn time; I love to shop. Its not about living longer by staying home and away from people more, its about having what years I got left unmarred by having my lungs turned to hamburger by a disease. Course, I'm vaccinated and lookin' into getting the 2nd booster, so I wouldn't have near as rough a time or be near as likely to get long COVID, but fuckin' still.

    • @joeybleu66
      @joeybleu66 2 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      its all part of the plan. a 30 year study just came out in the last 45 days. people in red states are less happy live shorter lives have more health problems. probably just a coincidence that people who live in crowded cities live longer than people who don't. blue states are decidedly more urban than most reds states. Texas is just too big to fit in a box. the poor are the most oppressed class in america, every effort is made by the corps to fleece them with quack cures, nostrums and other cons like industrial life insurance. because they are not very well educated unless they are self taught they fall for the infomercials at three a.m.

  • @Kiradoll
    @Kiradoll 2 ปีที่แล้ว +105

    I'm a black Memphian and the second Germantown popped up on the screen I knew John would have a joke about it. On a serious note, the Byhalia pipeline proposal was infuriating. Shoutout to local organizers, activists, and ordinary citizens who were instrumental in shutting it down.

  • @trollanonymously2434
    @trollanonymously2434 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1204

    18:18 massive respect to this man for actually giving a fuck about who would buy his house if he were trying to move. We need more humans to think like this.

    • @omgitsbenhayes
      @omgitsbenhayes 2 ปีที่แล้ว +122

      It's a pretty big red flag when the resident is the only one demonstrating concern for fellow humans when given an economic opportunity.

    • @JadedJassy21
      @JadedJassy21 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I noticed that too!

    • @chiefsilverback
      @chiefsilverback 2 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      That gentleman had morals sadly lacking by many these days.

    • @TheAirBear2000
      @TheAirBear2000 2 ปีที่แล้ว +102

      It makes me think of that clip of Ben Shapiro arguing that if rising sea levels encroach on people's homes, they can always just sell and move.
      "Sell their houses to who, Ben?! Fucking Aquaman?!"

    • @SeanLaMontagne
      @SeanLaMontagne 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Its tragic and heart breaking

  • @waymire01
    @waymire01 2 ปีที่แล้ว +412

    I lived this nightmare for 15 years in S. Louisiana. We fought, we even won several battles, but in the end those in power padding their pocketbooks approved an additional 16 major industrial sites in a single parish (what the rest of the US calls a county) in just five years. I still to this day have eye problems from a plant upwind who was dumping 700x the legal limit of pollutant into the air and it took the authorities nine months to shut it down, only to have it start back up again less than a year later under a new name. During the acute exposure I had bleeding sores in my eyes. In that same 15 years my daughter was diagnosed autistic at age 14, my son suffered kidney failure at age 23, and my husband was diagnosed with a brain tumor. It took losing everything we had to get out. Also Gen. Honore is a hero.. he never stops trying. I wish more people would listen. It used to be a big secret but there is no excuse these days, we have had plenty of expose's on the issues from all areas of the country... the fact is as long as it's happening to someone else, nobody cares.

    • @andiwand6132
      @andiwand6132 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dont get me wrong, but may I ask if u and/or ur family is ethnic?

    • @morrizun
      @morrizun 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I was just going to mention the BR area and Cancer Alley. How the white population used to live close to the plants but when they realised it was bad for health, they moved out and didnt leave a choice for the rest of the population. You're more than right, its a shame that they know what they're doing to the community and just shrugging it off because money is all that matters. There's ways around it but its hard to find people that will fight for it. Louisiana industries are about as corrupt as they come and you, me, plus everyone else that's lived there knows how blatant it is and it has affected way too many families.

    • @ErutaniaRose
      @ErutaniaRose 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I agree with almost all of this--but Autism is a form of brain function that is divergent (aka Neurodivergent). It is not a disease caused or cured by pollution and it is usually genetic. The only official group to declare otherwise is "Autism speaks" and they are a literal hate group. So...yeah. Just remember autistic people are a result of natural selection and human development--and the only reason people think of them as lesser is due to capitalist interest in valuing people as commodities or potential capital--aka the inherent ableism of capitalism.
      If you have any doubts about their value here is a list of people from history and today who are/were Autistic or high suspected to be and are praised by society:
      Greta Thunberg
      Albert Einstein
      Michaelangelo
      Marie-Curie
      James Joyce
      Hans Christien Anderson
      Gary Numan
      Other than that, I am with you. Corporate interest is disgusting, and people and the environment should come first--not profit.

    • @MountainMan7.62x39
      @MountainMan7.62x39 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm sure you all got social security

    • @kindlin
      @kindlin 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@andiwand6132
      The assumption is they are. Why are you even asking? That area clear is fucked, whatever race they are.

  • @KiithNaabal
    @KiithNaabal 2 ปีที่แล้ว +269

    18:20 "which poor family would I sell this death trap to...". This is a really good human! It's a shame that there aren't more like him.

    • @natesmodelsdoodles5403
      @natesmodelsdoodles5403 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      And also a shame that his neighbourhood is actively poisoning him.

  • @5ubbak
    @5ubbak 2 ปีที่แล้ว +484

    I'll be honest after the "Why don't you move?" question, I half-expected another British comedian to start destroying the set and yell "Just one small problem! Sell their houses to whom? Fucking Captain Pollution?"

    • @Montesama314
      @Montesama314 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I just imagined him smacking the taste out of her mouth for asking that.

    • @eenyee
      @eenyee 2 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      Fucking AQUAMAN???
      LOL

    • @Ismael-kc3ry
      @Ismael-kc3ry 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Broooo HBomber fan, based

    • @morganpartida6960
      @morganpartida6960 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Shadow, if women are oppressed,
      Simon

    • @KaitlynHatch
      @KaitlynHatch ปีที่แล้ว +5

      AQUAMAN! My brain went there toooooooo.

  • @Dot-Dot-Dash
    @Dot-Dot-Dash 2 ปีที่แล้ว +781

    Years ago, when I worked as a HOSPICE nurse, I visited dying patients in "Cancer Alley" and also marched in a Protest about this problem! Shame on Louisiana government for never caring one bit!!! Sacrifice zones are indeed evil!!!!

    • @laurie_guilbeau
      @laurie_guilbeau 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      I live in Louisiana and I've heard of Cancer Alley. My public high school teacher warned us about it. Shame on that government official who said it's not true.

    • @raykahn455
      @raykahn455 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Keep voting for good Christians and non science understanders and these problems will never change

    • @mangos2888
      @mangos2888 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@laurie_guilbeau I've never lived in Louisiana but did read about Cancer Alley in college...about 10 years ago. That politician is full of the environmental waste he's denying!

    • @rumbletown1563
      @rumbletown1563 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Thank you for your service to Louisiana 🙏
      We are one of the poorest overloooked areas of America! It’s cool that John Oliver is shedding light on the situation

    • @jorgegonzalez-larramendi5491
      @jorgegonzalez-larramendi5491 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@mangos2888 he is a demon

  • @SlightlyFizzled
    @SlightlyFizzled 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2583

    Whoever failed to notify the residents of that city for 31 years deserves a prison sentence for their dangerous, malicious incompetence.

    • @RoonMian
      @RoonMian 2 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      I don't care if anybody goes to prison for that but everyone who lived there needs to get a lot of money thrown at them.

    • @mermaidismyname
      @mermaidismyname 2 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      The problem is it's a lot of people who ignored it, and probably a lot of them assumed it was someone else's job to do it
      The bystander effect of "not my problem" is fucking pervasive in every area of life

    • @donmiller2908
      @donmiller2908 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Just another day in Whiteyville.

    • @SlightlyFizzled
      @SlightlyFizzled 2 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      @@mermaidismyname The bystander effect doesn't apply when it's your literal fucking job and you "accidentally" harm impoverished black families for 30+ years. It's the same reason we don't give the police the benefit of the bystander effect. An investigation needs to be made into who ultimately had the authority to issue warnings but chose not to.

    • @mermaidismyname
      @mermaidismyname 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @@SlightlyFizzled my point is just that it wasn't one person that fucked up, as he said it was eight different government agencies. a fuck ton of people fucked up

  • @ashtea96
    @ashtea96 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1843

    I did this research ethics course thing once and they asked us to bring our own examples of ethical dilemmas or failures and in my research I found out that an old air force base once contaminated an entire neighborhood around it with waste from their labs and years later the residents nearby were all getting tumors and illnesses but no one was helping them in any way. And when i brought it up in my class, it made everyone else uncomfortable and they like quickly moved on from me and we didn't even discuss it. I knew I went to a university with a lot of like respect for the military bc we have a big ROTC but i was still shocked that no one else even seemed to care. I still try to look up the situation but it looks like they never got anywhere.

    • @grumpycat2092
      @grumpycat2092 2 ปีที่แล้ว +165

      Wow.. Why did they even asked if they dont want to hear the answers? Such hypocrites..

    • @OGimouse1
      @OGimouse1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      *New Mexico*

    • @robbank8027
      @robbank8027 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Denver? The old airport that was turned into new residential housing. Let's build homes on toxic waste sites for yuppies. At least this isn't racist.

    • @DavidLindes
      @DavidLindes 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      @@grumpycat2092 because they were expecting people to talk about that time when they were 5 and had hurt some small critter, and you were trying to decide whether to do the evil of killing it, or the evil of letting it live in pain [or some other thing with a hyper-localized impact, and personal decision-making, instead of something with a broader significance, and group decision making]. Not to excuse it, just to answer the question you raise.

    • @4473021
      @4473021 2 ปีที่แล้ว +99

      Brain-dead respect of the military as a whole rather than the individual members that actually served are a massive problem in this country.
      People will vote to continue increasing funding the military industrial complex against nonexistant enemies, but won't even fund their local fire department so that it doesn't need to be a freaking VOLUNTEER agency.

  • @rochelle2758
    @rochelle2758 2 ปีที่แล้ว +908

    It's also worth mentioning that we export waste overseas to the Global South too. The problem, and the racism, need to be addressed globally, not just within any one country's borders.

    • @KarlSnarks
      @KarlSnarks 2 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      I recently saw a documentary on the history of environmentalism in the Netherlands, and the conclusion was basically that most of the issues fought for in the 60's/70's have now been "solved" by exporting dirty industry to overexploited nations.

    • @Tigress_Lilly
      @Tigress_Lilly 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I mean it'd at least be a start to focus on our own racial issues that are still plaguing us. And show no signs of change. It honestly scares and disgusts me. To be trapped like that. Who would wanna buy a house out there 🤣

    • @mohamedshidane9155
      @mohamedshidane9155 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      its time for Western Liberals to admit Globalization was a mistake

    • @roudyman777
      @roudyman777 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You are equating racism to socioeconomics. Stop spreading your hatred from one race to the other, Rochelle.

    • @masterofalltrades_
      @masterofalltrades_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Well said. We need to talk about imperialism as well

  • @kpepperl319
    @kpepperl319 2 ปีที่แล้ว +429

    You want politicians to act? Force them to live in the same zip code they represent full time. Force their kids to go to the same schools... See how fast they clean up their act

    • @donnavorce8856
      @donnavorce8856 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      IF there was only some way to make it happen . . . it'd be glorious.

    • @AMPProf
      @AMPProf 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Most do But it's up on the top of the hill! and shit don't roll up

    • @filipinordabest
      @filipinordabest 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You want politicians to act? Vote!

    • @SomeOldGamers
      @SomeOldGamers 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Want them to act? Make lying in a campaign a capital offense. Otherwise, they are just another stupid ape trying to satisfy their own needs.

    • @GOLANX
      @GOLANX 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Cedric Richmond was the representative of cancer alley, voted for everything the Polluters asked for, is now a senior adviser to the Biden administration.

  • @deliriumsd142
    @deliriumsd142 2 ปีที่แล้ว +677

    Baby crib grenades references: The HBO late-night host gave his first example of raids-gone-wrong with news footage of a case where a 2-year-old child was disfigured by a flash-bang grenade thrown into their crib during a police raid.
    Elderly being eaten by alligators: Understaffing and inadequate training of nursing home staff have consequences. Oliver gives examples of residents who met tragic fates due to staff neglect, including one resident who slipped into a pond and was eaten by an alligator and another who froze to death on Christmas.

    • @axdonat
      @axdonat 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      yes!! i did remember them correctly hahaaa

    • @AntoDesormeaux
      @AntoDesormeaux 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Damn. What a jolly day to freeze to death

    • @firstnamelastname7708
      @firstnamelastname7708 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Thanks! I remember the crib one, but not the alligator one.

    • @leannereed2790
      @leannereed2790 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I knew it!! You're my hero! 😁

    • @deliriumsd142
      @deliriumsd142 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@leannereed2790 Yay! I'm someone's hero!

  • @EricaSwitzer
    @EricaSwitzer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +234

    Grew up in one of those towns. Dad died of cancer, mom just beat breast cancer last year but we’re still watching and I’ve got a host of ovarian cysts. Absolutely shameful to have grown up in those conditions and I fight like hell everyday to not go back.

  • @beez1598
    @beez1598 2 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    I lived next to a superfund site, dioxin levels were 1,000 times above average in soil. “As long as you don’t eat the dirt there’s no risk” was what was said to us with a chuckle by the city. It was insulting.

    • @onkelpappkov2666
      @onkelpappkov2666 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      "Tee-hee, y'all get cancer, kek!"
      -Funny office people on funny day.

    • @Ismael-kc3ry
      @Ismael-kc3ry 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Holy shit dude, I’m glad you’re referring to that in the past tense. Hopefully you’re somewhere safer now.

  • @bigbaddawg101
    @bigbaddawg101 2 ปีที่แล้ว +791

    Fun fact: The Dakota Access Pipeline was originally going to go across the northern part of Bismarck, ND, which is a predominantly white wealthy area of town, but it was shut down real quick and instead moved to north of the Standing Rock reservation.

    • @roudyman777
      @roudyman777 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Racist

    • @lalagrimm-stone3177
      @lalagrimm-stone3177 2 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      Another fun fact, the standing rock fight is still alive. And there are new pipeline battles in other states that cut through more sacred sites. I urge everyone to keep standing rock in their minds even though it's not "newsworthy ” anymore because the fight is far from over and the pipeline companies are getting much more brazen now that they think they've won and the public has forgotten :(

    • @pauld.b7129
      @pauld.b7129 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Another fun fact: TransCanada signed an agreement to have it actually cut across the northern part of the Rez. They were going to pay the tribe millions for the easement. Then the tribe demanded more money, so they chose a path north of the Rez but not on it. So the natives started the whole BS about "water is life" when they found out they weren't getting paid. The stories on that are buried. You'll have to scroll through pages of protest bullshit before you can find those facts.

    • @SomeOldGamers
      @SomeOldGamers 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      North Dakota doesn't actually exist. It is just propaganda to make the number of stars an even 50.

    • @bigbaddawg101
      @bigbaddawg101 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@SomeOldGamers It exists outside of reality. That's why we're 10 years behind the rest of the country.

  • @Thehouseoffail
    @Thehouseoffail 2 ปีที่แล้ว +764

    Fun fact! Studies have shown that this is yet another reason why kids in those communities have lower test scores. Turns out it's hard to learn when you have lead poisoning, live near high levels of noise pollution, or breath in hidden chemicals. Did I say fun fact? I meant to say horrible. This is a horrible fact.

    • @timothyschule3831
      @timothyschule3831 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Moving is an option

    • @kingjamestres
      @kingjamestres 2 ปีที่แล้ว +94

      @@Snickerguy19 lol sometimes I wish I still had this level of ignorance but then I would be a child so maybe I don’t…

    • @biltkeith4540
      @biltkeith4540 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@kingjamestres I’d say it was worded incorrectly. The single parent households among the black community is staggering. If you can’t understand how that could impact a child’s development in versions ways, then you are a child.

    • @keitoimon
      @keitoimon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +82

      @@timothyschule3831 not if you can't afford the rent elsewhere

    • @maargenbx1454
      @maargenbx1454 2 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      @@timothyschule3831See, this is why I disagreed with Oliver that the reporter shouldn’t have asked “why don’t you move?” So many idiots would watch the report and think the same thing. Asking the question gave the man a chance to answer it directly, give voice to his frustration and make his quandary clear. The question wasn’t an accusation, it was an opportunity. Despite the answer, there’s still a glib non-thinker pretending it’s that easy.
      Are you suggesting that these areas be completely abandoned as residential zones? Where do you propose the people who are in the income bracket that landed them there move to? How about the homeowners, do you know people who can get another home without the proceeds from their current home? If those homes are sold to other people, how does that solve the problem?
      I seriously doubt you could move from wherever you are without a large amount of cash or credit on hand to finance your move, which is exactly what low middle class and poor people don’t have.

  • @laalaa99stl
    @laalaa99stl 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4008

    The failure to notify West Calumet residents that they're living on dangerously poisoned land is especially outrageous. At the very least, legislation should be passed to ensure notification doesn't take 31 freaking years!

    • @dissonanceparadiddle
      @dissonanceparadiddle 2 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      Gee! and I thought the notification about the high levels of radium, in the well water, in my area, coming 2 months late was bad.

    • @nikkyboy1067
      @nikkyboy1067 2 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      What legislation can be written that will ensure companies don't own our lawmakers?

    • @preetjitsingh328
      @preetjitsingh328 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@nikkyboy1067 can't via legislation. Can try WolfPAC and a constitutional amendment. But even then, corporations can still come in mid process to kill it.

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      @ninianstorm6494 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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      2.dnc kill 50 in vegas/portland, thugs attack with stand down cops san jose/charlotte, burn loot several months, sabotage afgan withdraw using russia bounty smear to give taliban equip
      th-cam.com/video/UxoL8tHSa7g/w-d-xo.html
      there is selective outrage from cia/media similar to ukraine 8 years bombing cuban missile crisis 2.0
      th-cam.com/video/_pGkFMho6Co/w-d-xo.html
      th-cam.com/video/q566pifdnU4/w-d-xo.html
      th-cam.com/video/qYmCtYLE9k0/w-d-xo.html
      usa lied about sending troops to fight isis enter syria, then it change to assad must go, they had turkey kill kurds so pelosi can stay in syria
      everyone remember nbc threaten follow jury with later to use thought police thugs? they gave protest t- shirts to san quan mayor puerto rico to lie about never receive hurricane maria aid
      destroy cali prop187 and create daca=south america stay cheaper than normal for outsource by throw away portion of their population for usa to take care of.
      we need to arrest all that hate withdraw from syria because they rig 2000 to 2012 kill iraq-syria but shameless blame russia!
      only then can we give all medicare, lower living cost inflation, wage regain value

    • @ninianstorm6494
      @ninianstorm6494 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dissonanceparadiddle list of treason by all whom claim russia hack 2016:
      hillary and albright killed democracy proof list=
      obama and Smith-Mundt Act in 2012/2013 which legalized propaganda by US government to be used ON the US people
      jan 6 is false flag to frame trump for break glass similar to ukraine coup 2014 to oust current president by cia shoot at both guards/protesters or hide among protesters to shoot at guards
      th-cam.com/video/V9rnoe18q3s/w-d-xo.html
      1. wesley clark reveal 2000 to 2012 all rig for kill iraq to syria
      th-cam.com/video/_mrJRHwbVG8/w-d-xo.html
      2.dnc kill 50 in vegas/portland, thugs attack with stand down cops san jose/charlotte, burn loot several months, sabotage afgan withdraw using russia bounty smear to give taliban equip
      th-cam.com/video/UxoL8tHSa7g/w-d-xo.html
      there is selective outrage from cia/media similar to ukraine 8 years bombing cuban missile crisis 2.0
      th-cam.com/video/_pGkFMho6Co/w-d-xo.html
      th-cam.com/video/q566pifdnU4/w-d-xo.html
      th-cam.com/video/qYmCtYLE9k0/w-d-xo.html
      usa lied about sending troops to fight isis enter syria, then it change to assad must go, they had turkey kill kurds so pelosi can stay in syria
      everyone remember nbc threaten follow jury with later to use thought police thugs? they gave protest t- shirts to san quan mayor puerto rico to lie about never receive hurricane maria aid
      destroy cali prop187 and create daca=south america stay cheaper than normal for outsource by throw away portion of their population for usa to take care of.
      we need to arrest all that hate withdraw from syria because they rig 2000 to 2012 kill iraq-syria but shameless blame russia!
      only then can we give all medicare, lower living cost inflation, wage regain value

  • @Infected_Gold
    @Infected_Gold 2 ปีที่แล้ว +968

    Growing up in cancer alley the most baffling thing is whenever it got brought up in conversation there's always people who just laugh and either say it's not real or treat it like it isn't a problem. Louisiana is so full of people who would go out of their way to help their neighbor with any problem they might have, and then would take joy in being able to vote to make sure their neighbor's children starve as long as a rich asshole proposed it. Everyone there pretends to care about the environment to protect the cypress trees, but will at the same time say anyone who votes for a politician who is trying to deal with pollution in any form, including preventing erosion the thing they pretend to care about, is an evil commie who hates whites.
    I have family living in some of the worst parts of cancer alley who care more about pretending to be mad at school boards for making all the kids gay or hate whites, than they do ensuring their children's health or financial future.

    • @wildfire9280
      @wildfire9280 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      This is the kind of stuff that makes you wish AVALANCHE was real.

    • @eustatic3832
      @eustatic3832 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Come home, we need ya

    • @Infected_Gold
      @Infected_Gold 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      @@eustatic3832 I'd love to work to make LA a better place, but between the government, the corporations, and a worrying amount of the people there it's a losing battle especially since I don't come from wealth. Too many people there thrive on and are proud of their own ignorance and kowtowing to the same people making their state worse. Half my family still living there would vote to have the same school their children go to torn down if it meant a minority wasn't getting a "handout" or if it meant someone already significantly wealthier than them got a little more money to spend on a 10th boat.

    • @AMPProf
      @AMPProf 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      God, Privacy & guns! No one is thinking bout that air in the back swamp

    • @grmpEqweer
      @grmpEqweer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Bad thought: tell them the pollution is making their children gay.
      This is absolutely a lie, and there's nothing wrong with being gay. But if it scares them that much, might as well spread that rumor.

  • @mahtosmith2976
    @mahtosmith2976 2 ปีที่แล้ว +731

    Where I live, which is an impoverished reservation along a major river in the US, it's no secret that our water is contaminated with heavy metals from when they built the dams and flooded their own mines. It's no secret that the infrastructure and funding that has been put in place is grossly inadequate. There are few who know about this and almost fewer who care. Thank you, John Oliver and co. I've been hearing/learning about this my whole life and it's honestly crazy to see it being talked about on a platform at this level.

    • @mahtosmith2976
      @mahtosmith2976 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @Elon Musk 🅥 Idk Elon, that seems pretty damn irrelevant to me.

    • @ninianstorm6494
      @ninianstorm6494 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mahtosmith2976 list of treason by all whom claim russia hack 2016:
      hillary and albright killed democracy proof list=
      obama and Smith-Mundt Act in 2012/2013 which legalized propaganda by US government to be used ON the US people
      jan 6 is false flag to frame trump for break glass similar to ukraine coup 2014 to oust current president by cia shoot at both guards/protesters or hide among protesters to shoot at guards
      th-cam.com/video/V9rnoe18q3s/w-d-xo.html
      1. wesley clark reveal 2000 to 2012 all rig for kill iraq to syria
      th-cam.com/video/_mrJRHwbVG8/w-d-xo.html
      2.dnc kill 50 in vegas/portland, thugs attack with stand down cops san jose/charlotte, burn loot several months, sabotage afgan withdraw using russia bounty smear to give taliban equip
      th-cam.com/video/UxoL8tHSa7g/w-d-xo.html
      there is selective outrage from cia/media similar to ukraine 8 years bombing cuban missile crisis 2.0
      th-cam.com/video/_pGkFMho6Co/w-d-xo.html
      th-cam.com/video/q566pifdnU4/w-d-xo.html
      th-cam.com/video/qYmCtYLE9k0/w-d-xo.html
      usa lied about sending troops to fight isis enter syria, then it change to assad must go, they had turkey kill kurds so pelosi can stay in syria
      everyone remember nbc threaten follow jury with later to use thought police thugs? they gave protest t- shirts to san quan mayor puerto rico to lie about never receive hurricane maria aid
      destroy cali prop187 and create daca=south america stay cheaper than normal for outsource by throw away portion of their population for usa to take care of.
      we need to arrest all that hate withdraw from syria because they rig 2000 to 2012 kill iraq-syria but shameless blame russia!
      only then can we give all medicare, lower living cost inflation, wage regain value

    • @voidbreather7405
      @voidbreather7405 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@mahtosmith2976 Don't reply to bots, just report them.

    • @mahtosmith2976
      @mahtosmith2976 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@voidbreather7405 I know he has a troll name, but it's hard to tell bots between people anymore

    • @MrUrbanApollo
      @MrUrbanApollo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      As a POC I’ve lived in a community where both POC and whites have had polluted water. It’s not a race issue it’s a class issue.

  • @semievilsquirrel
    @semievilsquirrel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3902

    That man who talked about selling his house has more decency and ethics than the government ever will.

    • @randypullman1155
      @randypullman1155 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      ironically the government is owned and operated by africans...js

    • @taint_misbehavin
      @taint_misbehavin 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The government in a representative democracy is run by the people. Garbage in, garbage out.

    • @delftblue
      @delftblue 2 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      Bless him

    • @Halo-lg7rq
      @Halo-lg7rq 2 ปีที่แล้ว +86

      Its the reverse of Ben Shapiro

    • @WeaponizedStrumpet
      @WeaponizedStrumpet 2 ปีที่แล้ว +142

      @@Halo-lg7rq "Sell their house to who, Ben? Fucking Aquaman?!"

  • @bayersbluebayoubioweapon8477
    @bayersbluebayoubioweapon8477 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1254

    Whenever I tell people about environmental problems like this they tell me it’s fake. I’m glad to hear it discussed at such a high level.

    • @ZentaBon
      @ZentaBon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Move out of Texas

    • @susanweber5089
      @susanweber5089 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      When I was in Mississippi for work, (solar), you couldn't talk to anyone about the Taylor oil spill bc they said it was fake.

    • @YogGroove
      @YogGroove 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      LOL. "High Level" .... There's no systemic analysis... only Woke Bullshit.
      Calling pollution of poor areas "Racism" doesn't help shit. It just makes useless lefties of the Professional Managerial Class feel better about their own insecurities.
      The guy in the clip had it right...... it's zip code privilege.

    • @BLARG09
      @BLARG09 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Crazy right. I lived in adorable town Kellogg Idaho. It was a superfund site. It's so wide spread. Pollution has killed many towns.

    • @bayersbluebayoubioweapon8477
      @bayersbluebayoubioweapon8477 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@ZentaBon I live in Michigan

  • @strngisle
    @strngisle ปีที่แล้ว +31

    John Oliver is still talking about unpopular topics..after all these years..I appreciate the voice

  • @haileybalmer9722
    @haileybalmer9722 2 ปีที่แล้ว +501

    It's important to note that this is also going on around Reservations. First we forced the indigenous people of this land to live only in the very worst parts, then we started mining the land around the areas we forced them to live. We poisoned the rivers around them, killing all of the animals. Then, when we couldn't force them to live there anymore, we paid them money to stay there and told them they're not really Indian if they move away. We are still poisoning their water. Flint is a horror show, but the southwestern tribes were the test run for poisoning an entire community's water. No one said anything, and so the people in charge in places like Flint knew they could get away with it. Speak up now. They're coming for your water next.

    • @RevShifty
      @RevShifty 2 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      Seriously. Flint is truly awful, but the still open uranium mines on indigenous land is still exponentially worse. And fewer people seem to care about the uranium exposure, the forced flooding, the forced takeover from an oil company, etc.

    • @hello7032
      @hello7032 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Yup, attempted mining ops in arizona, line 3 sucking out water from tribal lands(purposefully) and contaminating said water and numerous other examples.

    • @Thylacine1
      @Thylacine1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Registered Native American here, no one FORCES us to live anywhere. Also important to note we were CONQUERED, those left alive were spared, so cut the sob story and trying to act like what happened in America is unique.

    • @driftwisp2797
      @driftwisp2797 2 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      @@Thylacine1 "Also important to note we were CONQUERED, those left alive were spared, so cut the sob story". Are you arguing that people should be grateful to be treated poorly because at least they're not the victims of genocide? Something doesn't have to be unique to make it terrible.

    • @joseph-zoramcbride4029
      @joseph-zoramcbride4029 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      YES! YES! I first heard the term National Sacrifice zones in this context - Ward Churchill explaining the absolute hell in which Indians have been forced to subsist. Surrounded by uranium, bauxite, coal, and other resources that we've decided we can extract to the detriment of those who we've forced to live with the consequences. was a little disappointed he didn't mention that at all.

  • @Jane_1994
    @Jane_1994 2 ปีที่แล้ว +176

    "What poor, unexpecting family would I trick into moving into this death trap?" We need more people with this level of responsibility.

    • @asukachan7899
      @asukachan7899 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      ...in positions of power, yes, I agree.

    • @thenotsoguitarguy9429
      @thenotsoguitarguy9429 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Ultimately we need fewer people forced to bear this level of responsibility.

    • @AMortalDefiant
      @AMortalDefiant 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      The sad thing is, we'll get less, because like this fine gentlemen, they are the ones forced into unwinnable situations; while those who have no qualms with exploiting others have more options open to them to succeed. Maybe I'm overly cynical, but that's how it appears to me.

    • @rellie_90
      @rellie_90 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@AMortalDefiant exactly! People like him never last because he’s not falling line.

    • @dennisholliday2454
      @dennisholliday2454 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      There should be a way to force the CEO's (of the polluting company) and THEIR families to move into those homes.

  • @rdsyafriyar
    @rdsyafriyar 2 ปีที่แล้ว +352

    “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” - James Baldwin

    • @briantyson5548
      @briantyson5548 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Just joined your subscribers 😀

    • @therealzilch
      @therealzilch 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      James Baldwin was a great voice.

    • @radd696
      @radd696 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      never heard that one, but definitely true .. thanks

    • @wildzwaan
      @wildzwaan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Another apropos one of his: 'The future is like heaven. Everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now.'

    • @DTwoHS
      @DTwoHS 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I feel like I'm watching a Ryan George video. The first part of the sentence doesn't even mean anything.

  • @AgFalcon84
    @AgFalcon84 2 ปีที่แล้ว +580

    As an environmental scientist, I am utterly disgusted. I feel sick. Unfortunately, it's not just environmental policy that targets people of color. Transportation and infrastructure projects often treat communities of color as expendable. It is something that professionals in these fields need to be aware of and actively fight against.

    • @offplanet740
      @offplanet740 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Yup. In my environmental racism class we discussed how the LA freeways are some of the biggest symbols of racism in CA.

    • @Yooooo91
      @Yooooo91 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Everything under this capitalistic umbrella targets people of color

    • @kneegerman2076
      @kneegerman2076 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@offplanet740 environmental racism class?
      Lmao they would teach any bs but not something useful, don't they?

    • @Kingofthehillfacts
      @Kingofthehillfacts 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      We ain’t got no damn money to fight back.
      Generational wealth and the lack of empathy has solidified white people’s success and continues the systemic problem.
      Justify your moral any moral compass I ain’t replying.

    • @shownig
      @shownig 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@offplanet740 environment racism class? What kind of indoctrination campus do you attend?

  • @jess.summers
    @jess.summers 2 ปีที่แล้ว +391

    There’s a big culture of
    1) sweep everything under the rug
    2) oh no, it makes me uncomfy to talk about sad things
    3) oh no, if we address problems, we actually have to do hard work
    4) people who love oppressing people
    5) loving chaos and lack of progress
    6) apathy and contradictions
    7) idk somehow visceral patriotism on top of all this while also deeply hating and dehumanizing some Americans

    • @thegamethemovie9605
      @thegamethemovie9605 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Amen.
      As a teacher that finally left the US due to many of the reasons on your list, it's so sad to hear from former colleagues about that #2 especially is on the rise recently.
      Uncomfortable history so whitewash it even more? Uncomfortable children and parents because they have lower grades - due entirely because they refuse to do the classwork, let alone homework?
      Mystifying.

    • @onkelpappkov2666
      @onkelpappkov2666 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      "You two, talk about your mutual grievances!"
      "This nazi raped and killed my daughter, carved a swastika into her, then said this is how he will end all black lives, calling black people subhumans. He is currently holding a butcher knife behind his back and has been stalking me for an hour."
      "Sounds harsh. And what about you? What does he do to you?"
      "This negro is making me uncomfortable by pointing out that I'm a knife wielding nazi. I keep telling him to shush but he keeps accusing me and I find it discomforting."
      "That is very concerning. Seems like you both have equally valid points and the only solution is to just let it go. Thank you for sharing your feelings. This has been a productive mediation."

    • @patternrecon5271
      @patternrecon5271 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wikipedia: Finland: Sexual violence: Perpetrators: wow.
      BBC Sweden 58% foreinger.
      Ukrainian 18 year old Germany.
      Taharrush gamea.
      Marocchinate.
      New years eve Colonge Germany.
      Rotherham scandal.
      Manchester scandal.
      Rochdale scandal.
      West Yorkshire scandal.
      Newcastle scandal.
      Oxford scandal.
      Bradford scandal.
      Telford scandal.
      Aylesbury scandal.
      Huddersfield scandal.
      Zabihullah Mohmand Montana.
      Fort McCoy Afghans.
      Somali sweden 9 years old.
      Skaf gang australia.
      Simon Mol.
      Oulu scandal.
      Tapanila somali.
      Glasgow grooming gang.
      Ross Parker.
      Kriss Donald.
      Lara Logan Egypt.
      Temar Bishop.
      Morocco beheading.
      Greece Ahmed Waqas.
      France:
      Ndiaga Dieye police attack
      Rambouillet police attack
      Orthodox priest wounded Lyon
      2020 Nice stabbing
      Samuel Paty attack
      2020 Paris stabbing attack
      Colombes police attack
      2020 Romans-sur-isère knife attack
      Metz police stabbing
      2020 Villejuif stabbing
      Paris police headquartes stabbing
      2019 Lyon bombing
      2018 Strasburg attack
      Asadollah Asadi
      2018 Paris knife attack
      Carcassonne and Trèbes attack
      2017 Marseille stabbing
      2017 Levallois-Perret attack
      2017 Notre Dame attack
      2017 Orly airport attack
      2017 Paris machete attack
      2016 Normandy church attack
      Nice truck attack
      2016 Magnanville stabbing
      2016 Paris police station attack
      Valence car attack
      November 2015 Paris attacks
      2015 Thalys train attack
      Charlie Hebdo attack

    • @philippak7726
      @philippak7726 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      don't forget:
      8) accuse anyone of trying to change things of "making it political" as though it isn't already

    • @jeffdroog
      @jeffdroog 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Someone hasn't read a history text book.Thisnhas literally been the way for hundreds of years.People suck,and we haven't done anything to change the situation in honestly,hundreds of years.

  • @thexalon
    @thexalon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +144

    Russel Honore is practically a legend in military circles, a guy with a really good reputation, who among other things was the person who probably did more than anyone else to recover the Gulf Coast from Hurricane Katrina.

  • @haltopen12
    @haltopen12 2 ปีที่แล้ว +106

    As someone who has actually lived in both Germantown and Collierville, what Jon said is completely accurate and indisputable.

    • @davelambert6756
      @davelambert6756 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      As somebody who lives near FedEx HQ/TPC Southwind, I 100% agree. Right on target.

    • @aadamhughes
      @aadamhughes 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Im just amazed he even mention Memphis. Its cool to see (in a way).

    • @dcamron46
      @dcamron46 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      why did you put a fly on my screen...now my monitor's broken...

  • @aaronmeyer3664
    @aaronmeyer3664 2 ปีที่แล้ว +178

    Glad to see the statement "You can point at anything in america and ask: How is that racist? and get a comprehensive answer." still holds true.

  • @gamepapa1211
    @gamepapa1211 2 ปีที่แล้ว +405

    "His company eventually went belly up" is perhaps the closest we can ever get to a happy ending in this whole sordid affair.

    • @chazdomingo475
      @chazdomingo475 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not so fast. His company went belly up. He 100% did not. He probably made out like a bandit on this deal and is living in some gated white community right now. Once you learn corporate law, you'll understand the wealthy are explicitly never held responsible.

    • @far2ez539
      @far2ez539 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      If his company didn't go belly up, the shingles would've been turned into asphalt for the road. Doesn't seem like much of a happy ending to me.

    • @honeyLXIX
      @honeyLXIX 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      sometimes that just means filing bankruptcy and doing it all over again

    • @JohnDoe-bd5sz
      @JohnDoe-bd5sz 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I wonder if Body Mass Index is also a factor in the life expectancy of people.
      If it does, maybe there are a few pointers in this clip as to why some people live short lives, besides the narrative of this clip

    • @cc1k435
      @cc1k435 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@JohnDoe-bd5sz Sure. Let's go for a morning run around the mountain of asphalt! 🙄

  • @Rhomega
    @Rhomega 2 ปีที่แล้ว +299

    One of the first things I learned about playing SimCity decades ago was to never put residential zoning next to industrial.

    • @gridcoregilry666
      @gridcoregilry666 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      environmental racism solved

    • @lilpenguin092
      @lilpenguin092 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Some body out there needs to hit the "start new sim" button already lol

    • @unlimitedblack
      @unlimitedblack 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      If you check out Cities: Skylines, that game makes it PAINFULLY obvious that industrial zones are not okay for residential.

    • @vdoggydogg3922
      @vdoggydogg3922 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      at some point there needs to be industrial next to residential..really can't avoid it.

    • @redgunnit
      @redgunnit 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@vdoggydogg3922 Who told you that? Thomas Malthus?

  • @jeremy2875
    @jeremy2875 2 ปีที่แล้ว +116

    Surprised that he didn't bring up the Dakota access pipeline, where the original route to the North was rejected because it might contaminate drinking wells serving the mostly White population areas, so instead it was rerouted through tribal lands and directly under the tribal water source.

    • @lalaurlalala
      @lalaurlalala 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Yeah how did they do this entire thing with no mention of indigenous peoples?

    • @minuette1752
      @minuette1752 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@lalaurlalala There is not near enough time, I am sure he has touched on it before though. It would take hours and hours to even begin to start how screwed up this country is when it comes to pollution. If we were to go to the worldwide problem and how it affects everyone in every country, it would be on a whole other level.

    • @linebrunelle1004
      @linebrunelle1004 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      what? they screamed, yelled, held protests, and the fact that you don't know that shows that we don't pay attention to them.

  • @marcusmoses574
    @marcusmoses574 2 ปีที่แล้ว +674

    I really appreciate this episode, but I feel that I have to add to your coverage. You see, the EPA has a group in each region called Environmental Justice. They have been taking these fights on for the last 20 years. I would know because my wife, Althea M. Moses, was the Environmental Justice Coordinator for Region 7 EPA. She dedicated her life to fighting against corporate and local government exploitation of poor, Brown, and Black communities. She not only worked in her region (Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska), she was called in as a specialist to help mitigate the water crisis in Flint, MI with an emphasis on lead poisoning in children there. I think that you need to give kudos to these public servants because most of them are not doing it for a paycheck. Environmental Justice (which is called that because the original term "Environmental Racism" made White people feel uncomfortable and hurt) Coordinators are some of the least liked people. They fight on behalf of the vulnerable and weak, which makes them a target of the powerful corporations and their elected lackeys. And, often times, the people they are fighting for are angry at them because they aren't moving fast enough to resolve the problems they find. I really want to defend my wife because she truly gave her life for her work. She was well known nationally for her efforts, but she never displayed her awards or kudos. She died on February 17, 2022 from kidney failure and complications due to Pontine (brainstem) stroke. When her daughters and I cleaned out her office, we found two boxes of medals, plaques and awards that she had just stacked behind paperwork or left in boxes on the floor. Understand, the Environmental Justice Coordinators in the EPA are doing the work of defending the weak because they are called to the fight. I miss my wife terribly every day, but I know that the communities she served and their representatives are just as hurt, because they lost a great champion of their causes. We as a society need to help EJ Coordinators and their clients by, 1. Making clean environments for PEOPLE, not just the goddamn dolphins, 2. Recognizing how our neighborhoods are zoned and participating in public meetings to create fairness, 3. SAY IT OUT LOUD! Institutional racism is the primary cause of these injustices and to let pundits off the hook on this point does a great disservice to those who are in the fight. I'd like it if you could recognize these EJ coordinators in every region so that people can appreciate their efforts. Thanks for your time. PS, Yeah, I'm with you. Screw the pandas.

    • @beckettstaubs-friedmann1550
      @beckettstaubs-friedmann1550 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      I’m sorry for your loss, she sounds like an amazing women. I hope to make an impact like her.

    • @AshleyTennyson
      @AshleyTennyson 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    • @jb8705
      @jb8705 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      You are such a blessed man to have a wife with a caring soul . God Bless you & your daughters.

    • @hadleytucker7451
      @hadleytucker7451 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Im sorry for you loss, it sounds like you had an amazing wife.

    • @marcusmoses574
      @marcusmoses574 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@hadleytucker7451 Thank you. I did. I was definitely fighting above my weight class.

  • @terrab1ter4
    @terrab1ter4 2 ปีที่แล้ว +390

    Corporations actually actively directed environmental movements to be concerned about things like 'whales, pandas, other endangered species', the 'sexy newsworthy issues'; As such, they created a public perception that there existed two spheres of habitation: the human sphere in which we live, and the 'wilderness', and the latter had to be preserved. This, however, came at a price: for now it was completely acceptable for companies to do whatever they wanted within the sphere considered 'human living', because there was no need to preserve nature etc within that - everyone, after all, was focused on saving an ever-shrinking 'wild nature'.

    • @lld752
      @lld752 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Too simplistic.
      We have never preserved nature. We pollute everywhere. For example, Yellowstone isn't pristine. People have trashed it and pollute it and when a bear mauls a stupid tourist that "just wanted to pet a cub", they kill the bear. They should kill the tourist if preserving nature was really as important as you suggest we treat it. We don't. We have moved into wild areas, because everyone thinks they are entitled to live up in the mountains, then they get upset when a cougar kills their chihuahua or the forest catches on fire and their house burns down.
      Industries existed and housing was built around it. Companies used to build housing near the facility so employees could live close to their jobs. Later those workers didn't want to live nearby and the housing became cheap housing that poor people moved in to.
      It has been going on for over 100 years! This isn't something that happened in the last decade.
      People belong in cities. We have the technology to control and reduce our pollution and stop everyone's exposures, but people are unwilling to force industry to do the right things. We have idiots who fear that if we regulate industry too much, they'll move their operations to another country. That is when the government should sue any American company that has left the USA to avoid environmental regulations here and have robbed our people of employment.
      If our politicians weren't bought by industry, they'd do what is right for the people.

    • @terrab1ter4
      @terrab1ter4 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@lld752 I never said that we were successful in preserving nature. The entire idea of "preserving" some static ideal of something that is essentially dynamic is strange. All I was pointing out is that this mindset of "we have to preserve nature" hides the damage done in habitats considered "not nature" because humans live there. That mindset is relatively new, half a century tops; obviously, the environmental damage being done is far older than that

    • @matthews852
      @matthews852 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@lld752 You’re correct. Killing the bear is absurd. It can be argued that the bears life is more important than some Midwestern tourist that dragged his mouth breathing family to Yellowstone.. the chance of anyone in his family making a mark on civilization is nil. Humans aren’t near as important as we think we are. At least not as it pertains to the health of the planet. And let’s face it, in the long run, that’s all that matters.

    • @alvindurochermtl
      @alvindurochermtl 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Corporations per se aren't the culprits, people are. I know at least a dozen self-proclaimed environmentalists who have 3-4 children. My wife and I have decided not to have children and because we have no kids we consume less and don't need a car. Even if we didn't recycle a single thing in our lifetime we would still be leaving behind far less carbon footprints and pollutants than these people and their kids and grandkids together.

    • @azuman7
      @azuman7 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Dude, what? Ask yourself this, who going to do Jack s about ANYTHING environmental? It is a matter of diverting attention, it is a matter of generalized apathy. This segment to address this very thing is going to lead to no long term effects, like most of Jojo segments, with a few exceptions

  • @ForeverMe543
    @ForeverMe543 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1845

    Regarding the "worst things said" like Cancer Alley: He talked about grenades in a baby crib during the Raids episode (the police threw a grenade into a house and it landed in a crib on the baby) and the elderly being eaten by alligators was in the Long-Term Care episode (an elder woman ended up in a lake of gators after escaping and slipping down a hill at night)
    So orthodontic bullying doesn't exist...yet
    Yes I rewatch LWT a lot

    • @EpicScandinavian
      @EpicScandinavian 2 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      Could the push by many dentists for people to get their wisdom teeth removed be considered orthodontic bullying though?

    • @ForeverMe543
      @ForeverMe543 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@EpicScandinavian lol I dunno...perhaps children being bullied in school?? I had horrific dental work done and was bullied

    • @dkaloger5720
      @dkaloger5720 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Technically not a grenade it was a flashbang ,edit: didn't mean to offend people sorry, got it a flashbang is a grenade

    • @ninianstorm6494
      @ninianstorm6494 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@EpicScandinavian list of treason by all whom claim russia hack 2016:
      hillary and albright killed democracy proof list=
      obama and Smith-Mundt Act in 2012/2013 which legalized propaganda by US government to be used ON the US people
      jan 6 is false flag to frame trump for break glass similar to ukraine coup 2014 to oust current president by cia shoot at both guards/protesters or hide among protesters to shoot at guards
      th-cam.com/video/V9rnoe18q3s/w-d-xo.html
      1. wesley clark reveal 2000 to 2012 all rig for kill iraq to syria
      th-cam.com/video/_mrJRHwbVG8/w-d-xo.html
      2.dnc kill 50 in vegas/portland, thugs attack with stand down cops san jose/charlotte, burn loot several months, sabotage afgan withdraw using russia bounty smear to give taliban equip
      th-cam.com/video/UxoL8tHSa7g/w-d-xo.html
      there is selective outrage from cia/media similar to ukraine 8 years bombing cuban missile crisis 2.0
      th-cam.com/video/_pGkFMho6Co/w-d-xo.html
      th-cam.com/video/q566pifdnU4/w-d-xo.html
      th-cam.com/video/qYmCtYLE9k0/w-d-xo.html
      usa lied about sending troops to fight isis enter syria, then it change to assad must go, they had turkey kill kurds so pelosi can stay in syria
      everyone remember nbc threaten follow jury with later to use thought police thugs? they gave protest t- shirts to san quan mayor puerto rico to lie about never receive hurricane maria aid
      destroy cali prop187 and create daca=south america stay cheaper than normal for outsource by throw away portion of their population for usa to take care of.
      we need to arrest all that hate withdraw from syria because they rig 2000 to 2012 kill iraq-syria but shameless blame russia!
      only then can we give all medicare, lower living cost inflation, wage regain value

    • @ninianstorm6494
      @ninianstorm6494 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ForeverMe543 list of treason by all whom claim russia hack 2016:
      hillary and albright killed democracy proof list=
      obama and Smith-Mundt Act in 2012/2013 which legalized propaganda by US government to be used ON the US people
      jan 6 is false flag to frame trump for break glass similar to ukraine coup 2014 to oust current president by cia shoot at both guards/protesters or hide among protesters to shoot at guards
      th-cam.com/video/V9rnoe18q3s/w-d-xo.html
      1. wesley clark reveal 2000 to 2012 all rig for kill iraq to syria
      th-cam.com/video/_mrJRHwbVG8/w-d-xo.html
      2.dnc kill 50 in vegas/portland, thugs attack with stand down cops san jose/charlotte, burn loot several months, sabotage afgan withdraw using russia bounty smear to give taliban equip
      th-cam.com/video/UxoL8tHSa7g/w-d-xo.html
      there is selective outrage from cia/media similar to ukraine 8 years bombing cuban missile crisis 2.0
      th-cam.com/video/_pGkFMho6Co/w-d-xo.html
      th-cam.com/video/q566pifdnU4/w-d-xo.html
      th-cam.com/video/qYmCtYLE9k0/w-d-xo.html
      usa lied about sending troops to fight isis enter syria, then it change to assad must go, they had turkey kill kurds so pelosi can stay in syria
      everyone remember nbc threaten follow jury with later to use thought police thugs? they gave protest t- shirts to san quan mayor puerto rico to lie about never receive hurricane maria aid
      destroy cali prop187 and create daca=south america stay cheaper than normal for outsource by throw away portion of their population for usa to take care of.
      we need to arrest all that hate withdraw from syria because they rig 2000 to 2012 kill iraq-syria but shameless blame russia!
      only then can we give all medicare, lower living cost inflation, wage regain value

  • @TheRhetoricGamer
    @TheRhetoricGamer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +99

    This really nails down the fallacy with the "color blind" rhetoric.
    A color blind solution cannot adequately fix a problem that is NOT color blind.

  • @MegaChickenfish
    @MegaChickenfish 2 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    With all these examples of the pollution just being moved, I'm reminded of a documentary on pollution, recycling and the like that I watched in college with one particular quote that stuck with me.
    "We throw it away, *but where is "away?"* "

  • @theaxisofinsight
    @theaxisofinsight 2 ปีที่แล้ว +823

    "It's not about the money anymore. It's about the erotic rush of power." Apple should steal that mantra.

    • @trangender7588
      @trangender7588 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I'm assuming you talking about the corporate media class.

    • @FungiRy91
      @FungiRy91 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      They're used to stealing so it wouldn't be uncharacteristic for them

    • @bunnypoop4508
      @bunnypoop4508 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Thank God for Android 🙏 🕊 ♥

    • @Noone-l6g
      @Noone-l6g 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What goes up, must come down

    • @boblester8641
      @boblester8641 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      What about lithium mining and Thacker pass

  • @theresahudson1089
    @theresahudson1089 2 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    S/o to them for discussing Cancer Alley. Everyone in south Louisiana knows about it (and refers to it as such), yet nobody wants to do anything to fix it.

  • @maggieobrien9118
    @maggieobrien9118 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    The majority of my Environmental Studies major was about Environmental Justice and Racism. Had no idea it was even a thing until I went to college. Thank you for spreading awareness about it- wish I was still in school so I could write a paper about this video!

  • @moos5221
    @moos5221 2 ปีที่แล้ว +534

    Why on earth is it allowed in the USA to mix living zones and industrial zones? There should be a clear separation between those two for obvious reasons. It's such an obvious rule to follow that breaching that rule can't be an accident but seems like a deliberate action to hurt a specific group of people.

    • @chrisstyles5955
      @chrisstyles5955 2 ปีที่แล้ว +106

      You must not be from America. They'd have to care about us, to care if we're living amongst hazardous materials.

    • @merlinious01
      @merlinious01 2 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      Yeah, commercial and residential should mix, industrial should be separate

    • @DwiteLoot
      @DwiteLoot 2 ปีที่แล้ว +103

      When I played a game called Sim City 2000, you were a planner for a city. You were in charge of where to put zoning. The citizens would absolutely revolt if you kept industrial zoning too close to residential.
      If a game made before 2000 could figure it out, why can’t we? Money. And as pointed out in this video, racism.

    • @lilpenguin092
      @lilpenguin092 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      They need to play more Cities: Skylines lol

    • @heathernks8
      @heathernks8 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      I live in a large, poor, migrant community. The industrial zones are only 3.8 miles from the residential zones bc our city isn't that big. We are getting dangerously overcrowded with a 75 person wait list for 600 sq. feet of space at $1k a month. Also, most ppl here are so poor, they walk to work. We have a bus, but again: $1,000 a month in rent and electric!😳 *The plants need to be close to the homes so ppl can get to work.* 🤷‍♀️ It's a sad reality. The plants pay well, the landlords and electric co-op know this, so they price-gouge bc.. How & to whom can an immigrant complain? The whole system is corrupt.

  • @fredfunn5413
    @fredfunn5413 2 ปีที่แล้ว +217

    When Americans think about racism, they can only think of it in black and white. Environmental racism is far bigger than this. Internationally, people in the developing world have a fraction of the carbon footprint of people in rich countries on average, yet suffer most pollution. The rich world got rich by burning fossil fuels recklessly for centuries, and then turned around to slap a carbon quota on the developing world when living standard was just about to get better for the poor. Racism and hypocrisy is not just a problem for the privileged white people, but a fundamental and systemic problem with the West.

    • @aster5031
      @aster5031 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Correct 👏 👏 👏 👏

    • @FreiWild1776
      @FreiWild1776 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      yeah third world countries pollute a lot because they are savages and also they accept deals with the west to pollute because ooga booga warlord gets dollars so yeah also how braindead to be to watch johhny pepperoni

    • @genocidehero9687
      @genocidehero9687 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I'm black and poor I got nothing to do with what you and your granddaddy did

    • @roudyman777
      @roudyman777 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      What does the amount of melanin in one's skin have to do with the socioeconomics of another country that you are purporting? Sounds like you are trying to be the victim and blame your own failures on someone else instead of taking initiative to live a better life for your own. Stop whining. Rich countries like China burn way more fossil fuels than the US and their air pollution affects poor communities like those on the West Coast of California on a daily basis. Would you dare calling the people of China racist? No Fred, because you are the internal racist yourself.

    • @kenyapressley6706
      @kenyapressley6706 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      and with every developed country: usa, china, europe. all are deserving of environmental mandates

  • @mikeriderart1121
    @mikeriderart1121 2 ปีที่แล้ว +89

    Similar event in Arizona. Groundwater was contaminated with TCE in Maricopa County. In wealthy Scottsdale, they cleaned it up. In East Phoenix poorer neighborhood, they stalled and kept doing studies on the statistically improbable high level of deaths from rare illnesses that are linked to TCE contamination.

    • @OoohhForSure
      @OoohhForSure 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Motorola as well

    • @mrsoready
      @mrsoready 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That is so fucked up.

  • @sierra4766
    @sierra4766 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    The man who didn't want to sell his home to an unsuspecting family broke my heart. He's just taking the bullet to protect someone else. So sad.

  • @aggieschoonover4235
    @aggieschoonover4235 2 ปีที่แล้ว +278

    These companies not only knowingly pollute; they declare bankruptcy when their toxicity becomes too apparent. They move out, rename themselves (so they can pollute elsewhere), and leave the sites for taxpayers to clean up.

    • @grmpEqweer
      @grmpEqweer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yep!

    • @khango6138
      @khango6138 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      You know in a just country, the executives of these companies would be found, tried, imprisoned, and executed. You know, instead of the thousands of wrongfully arrested and executed coloured men.

    • @dunweyweydum
      @dunweyweydum 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Orphaned & abandoned O&G wells too.

    • @baronvonlimbourgh1716
      @baronvonlimbourgh1716 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Capitalism baby.
      Turn "externalities" in sweet sweet profits.

    • @MisstressMourtisha
      @MisstressMourtisha ปีที่แล้ว

      FACTS

  • @THMILLER
    @THMILLER 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    John Oliver's show is a wealth of information and knowledge that should be standard viewing in every school in the USA.

    • @jasonnewman2489
      @jasonnewman2489 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I show it often in my science classes. I have gotten into minor trouble for some of his political stances when some students complain to parents :D

    • @spork8655
      @spork8655 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It would be a lot easier to show it in school if there was less swearing.

    • @rachaeleotto3049
      @rachaeleotto3049 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I would love to show this to my environmental science students, but even a clean version could land me in the local, or even national news, for teaching critical race theory. Sad times we are living in. I hate it here.

  • @specist
    @specist 2 ปีที่แล้ว +93

    These stories remind me of how I got lead poisoned as a child. Telling a kid not to play in dirt is almost impossible.
    Want to see how bad pollution is when companies don't give a shit, look up chat piles. These industries/companies should be held accountable!

    • @deeznutz5825
      @deeznutz5825 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Literally just wrote a comment about that, I used to dig holes but my parents wouldn't let me dig near driveways because of the runoff, yet there are kids running around in places where the lead level can be measured as a percent.

    • @jojol.2630
      @jojol.2630 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Does the lead poisoning still affect you?

    • @specist
      @specist 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@jojol.2630 The lead poisoning mainly affected my balance and nervous system. Mainly walking is a pain, having a cane helps with balance.

  • @dragonflies6793
    @dragonflies6793 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    in the interview at 18:20, where he says "right now, in good conscience, who would I actually sell this house to? What poor, unsuspecting family would I trick into moving into this death trap?"...that broke me.

    • @TheAlps36
      @TheAlps36 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It just blew me away that someone, despite having his own life at risk, wouldn't even consider passing his problem onto someone else

  • @olorin4317
    @olorin4317 2 ปีที่แล้ว +258

    This one was more depressing than the Air Bud one.

    • @ryanelliott6706
      @ryanelliott6706 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Remember when this show spent 30 minutes on the idiot in the White House instead of on a 90s movies about a dog? Good times. I miss John’s TDS. When was the last time he even said the word “Biden.” 😂😂

    • @Kholdaimon
      @Kholdaimon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      I don't know, the fact that there is a comedy franchise build on the story of a dog being stolen from an alcoholic man and then the alcoholic going to prison for it somehow is pretty fuckin' sad... The generally accepted disdain or outright hatred for people down-on-their-luck (the homeless, the poor, addicts) in the US is truly terrifying...

    • @reuellucas7187
      @reuellucas7187 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Kholdaimon but there’s no rule against it though

    • @glt918
      @glt918 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      No shit it should be

    • @harvey3rdman464
      @harvey3rdman464 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Kholdaimon "Stolen"? Have you ever seen that movie?

  • @kjherrera1289
    @kjherrera1289 2 ปีที่แล้ว +220

    I seen a tik tok of a girl speaking out about racist infrastructure and environmental racism. They were making fun of her and called her a stupid liberal. The world we live in

    • @RevShifty
      @RevShifty 2 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      It's hilarious to me how objective reality is somehow a liberal cause. It's like conservatives accidentally acknowledging they're either clueless or willfully ignorant.

    • @gusmonster59
      @gusmonster59 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Saw. You saw a tik tok. Good gosh learn a wee bit of grammar.

    • @utezahn3174
      @utezahn3174 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Well, name calling is much easier than to face and fix the truth.

    • @Nowolf
      @Nowolf 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@gusmonster59 AAVE

    • @voxomnes9537
      @voxomnes9537 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Nowolf They're racist. Move on

  • @goodguy...badrep.
    @goodguy...badrep. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +357

    I love that John Oliver talks about what subjects that others want to hide.

    • @RJ-zv9uj
      @RJ-zv9uj 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      So he's PBS Frontline but funny!

    • @Gardstyle35
      @Gardstyle35 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      oliver always shows things one sided from the far leftist view, picking and choosing carefully to always fit that narrative.

    • @ClaudioMichel
      @ClaudioMichel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @@Gardstyle35 Yeah, because 'Murica is so great.....

    • @Gardstyle35
      @Gardstyle35 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ClaudioMichel not saying that but making everything about race is retarded. the same happens in europe with poor neighbourhoods- is that white on white racism?
      in a video about statues where he shows trump asking where does it stop (with jefferson etc..) his answer was "somewhere, somewhere does it stop" thats the same answer the communist gave in china during the culture revolution. when he talks about critical race theory and how parents are upset he only shows white parents even though its not just white parents and the % of black, asian latino parents against CRT is higher than that of whites. Painting a picture and we all know why they selected exactly those bits.
      america has alot of problems and f* up shit. But nontheless theres a reason why its the richest nation in the world and has more immigrants than the rest of the world.

    • @ninianstorm6494
      @ninianstorm6494 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@RJ-zv9uj list of treason by all whom claim russia hack 2016:
      hillary and albright killed democracy proof list=
      obama and Smith-Mundt Act in 2012/2013 which legalized propaganda by US government to be used ON the US people
      jan 6 is false flag to frame trump for break glass similar to ukraine coup 2014 to oust current president by cia shoot at both guards/protesters or hide among protesters to shoot at guards
      th-cam.com/video/V9rnoe18q3s/w-d-xo.html
      1. wesley clark reveal 2000 to 2012 all rig for kill iraq to syria
      th-cam.com/video/_mrJRHwbVG8/w-d-xo.html
      2.dnc kill 50 in vegas/portland, thugs attack with stand down cops san jose/charlotte, burn loot several months, sabotage afgan withdraw using russia bounty smear to give taliban equip
      th-cam.com/video/UxoL8tHSa7g/w-d-xo.html
      there is selective outrage from cia/media similar to ukraine 8 years bombing cuban missile crisis 2.0
      th-cam.com/video/_pGkFMho6Co/w-d-xo.html
      th-cam.com/video/q566pifdnU4/w-d-xo.html
      th-cam.com/video/qYmCtYLE9k0/w-d-xo.html
      usa lied about sending troops to fight isis enter syria, then it change to assad must go, they had turkey kill kurds so pelosi can stay in syria
      everyone remember nbc threaten follow jury with later to use thought police thugs? they gave protest t- shirts to san quan mayor puerto rico to lie about never receive hurricane maria aid
      destroy cali prop187 and create daca=south america stay cheaper than normal for outsource by throw away portion of their population for usa to take care of.
      we need to arrest all that hate withdraw from syria because they rig 2000 to 2012 kill iraq-syria but shameless blame russia!
      only then can we give all medicare, lower living cost inflation, wage regain value

  • @undrtakr900
    @undrtakr900 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Thank for covering topics other media outlets won't cover.

  • @SunlightHugger
    @SunlightHugger 2 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    My family lived south of New Orleans for 15 years. When we all finally moved, our health improved. We thought it was just a mental thing, but let's be real... we were eating oil, drinking lead, and breathing gasoline.

  • @jeffhodge7333
    @jeffhodge7333 2 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Every city has an area called, "The other side of the tracks." It is the downwind side of railroad tracks. It is where the coal soot from trains would land. Land is always cheaper in those areas.

    • @costeris35
      @costeris35 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Is that where that expression comes from? I didn’t know that. That makes a lot of sense.

  • @venusvirgofly
    @venusvirgofly 2 ปีที่แล้ว +143

    Visited southern Puerto Rico yesterday. How the US government treats this beautiful island is disgusting. The evidence of hurricane Maria is everywhere. Mainlanders would not tolerate it.
    Free PR or make it a state.

    • @naejimba
      @naejimba 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I agree with this, there are a number of territories like this and most people in the US don't know anything about it. What should happen is THEY should get to choose whether to become independent or a state. It's their goddamned country, and if the US is going to have anything to do with it they deserve representation.

    • @DunderHead.5000
      @DunderHead.5000 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      They could make it a state, we already Gitmo there.

    • @terrystevens3998
      @terrystevens3998 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It will never be free when it comes to investment and capital so it should just become a state, asking for freedom is like asking a spouse for a divorce and not moving out, it can never be truly free so it is better for it to have representation

    • @QS-si3cq
      @QS-si3cq 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Sounds like you are very uninformed. I worked for the federal gov and had meetings with people from PR who want to be a state. Their big issue? The large number of people there who don't want to be a state.

    • @sandywaters1153
      @sandywaters1153 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@DunderHead.5000 No Gitmo is in Cuba which is not a US territory!!

  • @dale-4543
    @dale-4543 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    It's good to see Memphis representative Justin Pearson when this video was released vs now. He has always been an advocate for his constituents

  • @transnaturalperspectivespo6133
    @transnaturalperspectivespo6133 2 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    To separate the “natural environment” and society is impossible. It’s ALL the “environment”. That’s it! That’s all we got!

    • @sandyallen1523
      @sandyallen1523 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Exactly. We only have one Mother Earth

  • @monicacurtis3986
    @monicacurtis3986 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    As someone who grew up in a Germantown (Wisconsin), I can say that statement is scarily accurate. I definitely made the right call moving.

    • @tigerlily1118
      @tigerlily1118 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's why I moved out of that state. Milwaukee and the southeastern part of the state is super segregated and supremely racist.

    • @B_Cleric_Time
      @B_Cleric_Time 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      As someone who grew up in Germantown, Philadelphia his joke couldn't have been further from the truth lmao

    • @MaddTheSane
      @MaddTheSane 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Tommy Taffy You first.

  • @TigerNightmare
    @TigerNightmare 2 ปีที่แล้ว +364

    When friends were helping me decide where to move on separate occasions in separate cities on opposite ends of the country, they both warned me against certain zip codes, the east side of town, numbered streets, and anywhere near a street named Martin Luther King, Jr. And while it was true that these areas were run down and had problems with violent drug crime, the place I ended up moving to is currently undergoing extreme gentrification. My landlords are asking new tenants to pay double what my original rent was. And it's not like the neighborhood and the amenities they offer has changed in any significant way, let alone for the better. They just want to rent relatively small, cheap places to rich people, so someone like me would have to either live in the bad neighborhoods or leave town entirely. If you're rich, why would you want to live in a one bedroom, and if you're not rich, why would you pay extra to live in a one bedroom for the cost of renting an entire house somewhere else? Where do they expect people to live?

    • @JoseFlores-xh5cj
      @JoseFlores-xh5cj 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      So now affording rent in a non-dangerous area is considered "rich" this days? I swear everybody wants to be a professional victim no matter how much BS comes out of their mouth

    • @lostbutfreesoul
      @lostbutfreesoul 2 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      The answer to this problem can be found here - Housing Crisis.
      I am not talking about the bubble that burst, though it did not help, but a while bunch of regulations created in the 1980's with the intent to... you guessed it... keep poor black people from moving into certain neighborhoods after Red-lining became illegal. By preventing certain type of houses from being constructed, such as mid-sized multi-family dwellings preferred by more "urban types," they figured they could keep the broken systems in place. They believed they could keep out the 'undesirables' by over-pricing the markets, pushing them to look elsewhere... have they succeeded?
      Heard of the term 'Not in my back yard?'
      That movement which created this problem is still fighting to keep it going... and winning, sadly.

    • @TigerNightmare
      @TigerNightmare 2 ปีที่แล้ว +91

      @@JoseFlores-xh5cj You can pretend all you want that affordable housing and gentrification aren't evergreen issues that have been around since before we were born. It doesn't change the fact that it happens or that this greed is shortsighted and causes problems for the entire region. Why would anyone work at Target for $10 an hour, $20,800 before taxes, when their rent is $1,800 a month/$21,600 a year? Are you suggesting people commute for an hour to work at Target? What about small businesses that pay minimum wage? They couldn't raise their wages if they wanted to because they have to pay the exorbitant cost of operating within the area like everyone else. These things kill cities. People are perpetually moving to the next place that has cheaper rents and thriving job markets until the same thing happens. It is unsustainable.

    • @alex-qd6of
      @alex-qd6of 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@lostbutfreesoul why do you assume the markets are overpriced for racist reasons, rather than because landlords and developers want to make as much money as they can?

    • @The_R-n-I_Guy
      @The_R-n-I_Guy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Nobody in power cares about those of us who don't have the money to help fund their campaign. If the people with donation checks want something, to hell with the poor

  • @nomore6167
    @nomore6167 2 ปีที่แล้ว +169

    I can imagine the EPA's response: "What do you mean your kids want to play outside in the grass and dirt? Just buy them the latest tablet, mobile phone, and gaming console and they'll be happy to stay inside all day. Oh, but don't let them drink the water."
    I can also imagine local government officials: "Okay, okay, fine. Yes, we classify your neighborhood as an industrial zone, we allow corporations to store deadly chemicals and materials in your neighborhood, and if those chemicals leak and contaminate the area, then we'll wag our finger and tell the companies we're very disappointed in them. But really, if you get off your anti-industry, anti-progress horse and think about it, I think you would agree that you should be on your knees thanking us. That's how we're keeping your property taxes down. If we removed the industrial plants, the deadly chemicals, and the various pollutants, then the area would become much more attractive to outsiders and property values would go up, forcing us to raise your property taxes. You probably wouldn't be able to afford your houses at that point and you would get evicted. Please, don't force us to do something that will raise your property taxes and get you evicted."

    • @ryusthered
      @ryusthered 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      The sad part is... That is a true statement.

    • @robertdascoli949
      @robertdascoli949 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Why should they drink water when they can drink Brando! It's what plants crave!

    • @jsoo67
      @jsoo67 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@robertdascoli949 plus I ain't see no plants grow out of no toilet.

    • @uniraffesaur
      @uniraffesaur 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "you can't afford to live here if we make it up to the bare minimum standard of okay for human residence"
      Like, the answer to that problem isn't that you keep it unfit for human residence. You fix the problems with property values skyrocketing and continuing to box out more and more people.

  • @guess30629
    @guess30629 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Thank you John Oliver and his team for keeping real stories like this alive instead of being kicked down the road as was clearly done with these poor people

  • @mermaidismyname
    @mermaidismyname 2 ปีที่แล้ว +125

    What is particularly nefarious about this is lead poisoning is very connected to violent irrational behavior and a higher likelihood to commit crime
    So there are probably a not insignificant number of POC in prison right now directly due to being poisoned with lead pollution

    • @yohei72
      @yohei72 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      I was thinking the same thing - beyond all the other problems that come with pollution, it affects brain development and functioning, which obviously has implications for education, career, and crime.

    • @grmpEqweer
      @grmpEqweer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yup.

    • @ebonychan
      @ebonychan 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      and then they use racist stereotypes that happen to correlate with lead poisoning symptoms as justification for more racist policies like funneling more cash into police departments, responding to a medical crisis with guns and prisons

    • @baronvonlimbourgh1716
      @baronvonlimbourgh1716 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They are called externalities, so that makes it ok.

    • @grmpEqweer
      @grmpEqweer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@baronvonlimbourgh1716
      ...So, allowing the externalizing of toxic byproduct, when it actually can be reprocessed or stored safely, is a hideous sort of corporate welfare.
      Just noting.
      ...I think it would be very fair to make all those chemical plants pay for all of the medical treatment of anyone within 50 miles of the plants.

  • @jellyo1000
    @jellyo1000 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This made me cry - my Ph.D. dissertation is on particulate matter pollution in the US and Robert Bullard's "You can tell me a zipcode and I'll tell you how healthy you are - all zipcodes are not created equal" hit home. I am researching the use of Citizen Science for local air monitoring, and would love if someone could put me in touch with John Oliver's team. I have data on air pollution disparities, and it is more grim than even published literature sometimes. Thanks!

  • @sueware8377
    @sueware8377 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    GREAT PRESENTATION, John...I learned a WHOLE bunch of new information with this one...I had NO idea about some of the things you mentioned...but I took notes, am going to call friends and tell them, and find out how we can get involved in helping to change this. It is SO blatant and so deliberate! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!

  • @IonOtter
    @IonOtter 2 ปีที่แล้ว +157

    Whenever you are told "the water is safe to drink", or "there's no significant risk to living there," you need to load the water into tanker trucks, and spray it on the neighborhood streets of those telling you it's safe. Y'know, dust control, or just washing the streets. People like that sort of thing. And when you see a nice, new McMansion being built, collect topsoil from the "safe" neighborhood and dump it in an out-of-the-way pile at the construction site. They won't mind! Free topsoil for a construction site? SCORE! Six months to a year later, at the next meeting, where the talking heads repeat their claims that the water is safe, and the contamination is within "acceptable levels", you tell them what you did a year ago. Then watch how high they jump. The altitude they obtain will be your indicator of how "safe" the water and soil really is.

    • @Fafnd
      @Fafnd 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      But what if instead they just close the meeting and sprint for the door?

    • @IonOtter
      @IonOtter 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@Fafnd I'd say that's some pretty decent altitude! Next you'll want to see if anyone in respirators and Tyvek suits show up with Geiger counters.

    • @UniqueornBacon
      @UniqueornBacon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Say you've redirected this totally safe water into their reservoirs and that it's where the drinking water at THEIR children's schools come from. You don't even have to do it, just say you did. But doing it is more fair.

    • @ringo1692
      @ringo1692 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@UniqueornBacon it wouldn't matter if you just said you did it or you actually did the amount of time you're gonna spend in jail will probably be about the same...

    • @blueberryiswar
      @blueberryiswar 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@ringo1692 Because cancer cuts that jailtime short?

  • @SeanLaMontagne
    @SeanLaMontagne 2 ปีที่แล้ว +171

    The fact that man is just accepting his fate in refusing to trick some random family that might have children into moving into a death house
    That's that helplessness that makes people desperate in ways you couldn't imagine.
    Ever wonder how those "villains that almost have a good point" are created? Through origin stories like this.

    • @AntoDesormeaux
      @AntoDesormeaux 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I'd watch that villain's movie

    • @nishshah4472
      @nishshah4472 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That man is a good man

  • @COYG365
    @COYG365 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    “You can point at anything in America and ask, how is it racist?”
    John Oliver some time in the past

  • @vampirebicth
    @vampirebicth 2 ปีที่แล้ว +760

    racism in america is like high fructose corn syrup. almost no one would buy a bottle of it themselves, but once you start looking for it, you realize it's in everything.

    • @clifflee54
      @clifflee54 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Terrible analogy

    • @d53njac
      @d53njac 2 ปีที่แล้ว +111

      Great analogy.

    • @gorillaguerillaDK
      @gorillaguerillaDK 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Very well put!

    • @CribNotes
      @CribNotes 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Bullshit. This video exploits viewers who are not interested in thinking logically....or they can't.

    • @JohnLumpp
      @JohnLumpp 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Spot on!

  • @pibyte
    @pibyte 2 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    Nothing better to start off the week than with a fresh video of John Oliver telling us how f****d we are.

    • @Marijuanifornia
      @Marijuanifornia 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The 1942 USDA film *Hemp For Victory* shows you how to change everything, but shitwits like John Oliver won't talk about it, so we end up with a world that is entirely fucked.

    • @ngonzales3781
      @ngonzales3781 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yea hes the real expert. Hes not just a terrible comedian, hes also an opinion from Twitter! :)

    • @Onigirli
      @Onigirli 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ngonzales3781 Hatewatching is an illness

  • @shoesncheese
    @shoesncheese 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    I grew up in Memphis and you're pretty much correct about Germantown.
    My wife grew up in a very poor neighborhood in Central Illinois with a higher cancer rate than some surrounding counties. My wife had childhood cancer, both of her parents die of cancer. And, this is true, Chicago shipped its human waste to the area to be used as fertilizer for area farms. If you visit, don't drink the water.

    • @LoneCourier2281
      @LoneCourier2281 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I-uh, always drink the water in Memphis

    • @RevShifty
      @RevShifty 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I have a friend from rural WV, in an area used to dispose of chemical waste. Mostly from the manufacture of things like teflon, kevlar, and similar unfriendly materials. She has three generations of various cancers, kidney issues, and 'mild' birth defects on both side of her family, and the whole area was effected similarly.
      There are a lot of similar stories dotting the rural South and Midwest. Because they're sparsely populated, the state governments don't give a damn, and no one cares about poor people, certain kinds of large business see the land and people as expendable.

    • @wilsoncastleman656
      @wilsoncastleman656 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I grew up in Germantown and while it's true Memphis has a lot of problems water is not one of them. The aquifer that supplies the region is known to produce some of the cleanest water in the country.

    • @LoneCourier2281
      @LoneCourier2281 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@wilsoncastleman656 this, Memphis has the best water

    • @lynnerose7891
      @lynnerose7891 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Ppl who say I drink the water in MEMPHIS-and I’m a native of the city-he’s talking about NO DRINKING WATER IN CHICAGO.

  • @Fr3nchee
    @Fr3nchee 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I learned that in the UK (where I live) the rich areas are usually on the west side of cities because smog was usually blown east by the wind. So the rich moved west and the poor could only afford the east side. That's why the east side of cities are often still lagging behind to this day.

  • @xenosbreed
    @xenosbreed 2 ปีที่แล้ว +273

    Meanwhile Tucker interviews people mad at wind turbines to generate energy are going up 2 miles away from their homes. Its, heartbreaking that people are living next to industrial waste and having literal garbage put into their water intentionally and it barely comes up in the news. I grew up poor, but I was still spared from stuff like this, and it really puts it into perspective that I still had privileges others didn't

    • @ZennExile
      @ZennExile 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      All poor people have been forced to live in the worst possible places since keeping people subject to authority poor to exploit labor was invented. What should break your heart is that we allow poor people to exist along side the wealthiest handful of people who have ever existed. But you've probably convinced yourself that poverty is a symptom of undesirable culture. Not the crime against humanity it actually represents in a modern society many thousands of times more productive than the agrarian alternatives it replaced. We went from almost no poor, to almost everyone is poor in 60 years. But it didn't break your heart until a politically driven message was delivered to you through media.
      What if I told you that YOU are the real problem because you exist and infect others with your selectively delusional perspective and the only solution to you existing, is you not existing? Would that offend you? Or would you be like, "nah that actually kinda checks out, I am bad for this world and humanity"? I mean, if it's the latter don't get it twisted gangster recognize gangster, but I have a feeling you have fully convinced yourself that the world is happening to you, rather than the reality that you are happening to it.

    • @Gutlard
      @Gutlard 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Right. Put that trash mountain on the other side of town, so I have a nice view from the porch plx.

    • @incharak1927
      @incharak1927 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@ZennExile u really thought u ate?😂😂

    • @naejimba
      @naejimba 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      You know, I hate the framing "privilege" as it implies that is what needs to change instead of viewing as it actually is, where there are people who are treated like shit and there is no excuse for it. To me it reeks of a PR spin to pit average people against one another taking the focus off the people who are the ones that are the problem and need to change. And look at the result... it worked. We went from something like Occupy Wallstreet almost overnight into the media changing that narrative to "white people bad." I just feel like framing it properly, where everyone has the same rights, and a threat to one person is a threat to all of us would unite people instead of pitting them against one another. The people who run this country do subtle manipulations like this.

    • @ZennExile
      @ZennExile 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@incharak1927 no matter how clean you are, we can still smell you, and anything you even sit near, from 50 feet away, once a month. You should change your kitty's name to Thanos.

  • @chrisz7494
    @chrisz7494 2 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    John Oliver did a stupendous job on this. I'd like to see him cover circular economy next

    • @AS8643
      @AS8643 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      He is always hitting the nail on the head

  • @VGaming559
    @VGaming559 2 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    The same thing happened here in South Africa. Apartheid govt built black townships south west of heavy pollutant industries in johannesburg. This is because south westerly winds would blow all the pollution south west to those townships like Soweto. Their surbubs were all built east or north of johannesburg..

    • @emmacoleman4644
      @emmacoleman4644 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I learned the term 'slow violence' for it here in SA

    • @MountainMan7.62x39
      @MountainMan7.62x39 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's unfortunate it didn't turn out the way it was supposed to

    • @VGaming559
      @VGaming559 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@MountainMan7.62x39 what do you mean?

    • @eustatic3832
      @eustatic3832 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      SASOL (south African chemical company) operates a massive toxic ethylene cracker in the African American town of Mossville, LA. Which does not exist anymore. I think Louisiana is part of the Global South.

  • @danalaniz7314
    @danalaniz7314 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Another amazingly deep and relevant story. I was involved in the whole fiasco with trying to remediate the lead contamination in West Dallas when I worked for the City of Dallas. The soil in the federal housing project across the street from one of the largest lead smelters has to be removed twice and I'm not sure the issue was really solved.

  • @marcinmarszaek3813
    @marcinmarszaek3813 2 ปีที่แล้ว +123

    You know, I really fell like at this point, whenever John is talking about literally anything, he can just add at the end of his monologue: "And of course, the black and latino people get twice the worst of it".
    But on a sidenote" puting a F*&(ing oil refinery arounf local cementary is just the most grimm yet the most honest representation of american thinking you can get today.

    • @defundthepolice2007
      @defundthepolice2007 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It’s not even just oil refineries. It’s also petrochemical refineries that pump out phosphates and other cancer causing chemicals.

    • @RickKasten
      @RickKasten 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties, for cemeteries in low-income, high-minority population communities surrounded by oil refineries!
      O America, may God shed his grace on thee!

    • @RevShifty
      @RevShifty 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Except that as bad as those communities get it, the 'red' communities are likely getting it even worse, without even the pretext of caring or desire to fix it coming from outside their communities. I'm not trying to diminish what black and brown Americans are experiencing at every level, I just don't want to see the indigenous communities ignored in conversations like this. And as bad as some black and brown communities absolutely have it, they're still not living next to open uranium mines or having their communities destroyed/massively damaged with nearly the same frequency.

    • @marcinmarszaek3813
      @marcinmarszaek3813 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@RickKasten That sound's like some sort of Wall Street Adam Smith's prayer.
      Truly an american piece of culture

  • @TheRoonie222
    @TheRoonie222 2 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    Ok, story time. I used to work for a private environmental consulting firm (picture the people that go contaminated sites and do all the testing for the property owners to stay in compliance with the local government). There was a gas station on the top of a hill. It was one of the most contaminated sites we had. I'm talking benzene levels around a thousand times higher than the legal limit in places. Directly adjacent and downhill from the site was a set of apartments.
    I remember helping drill the monitoring wells for the site. I was relatively new at the job so I still had some hope for the world. I was there with one of the PM's and I remember looking at the soil, with gasoline coating it, then looking back towards the apartments, and asking him, "should we tell them about it?"
    He said we'd ask our boss at the end of the day. So we do. Our boss says, "why would we tell the residents?"
    "Because there is a high chance that the soil they are living on is very contaminated."
    "Yes, but we are representing the clients, and if we inform the residents that's a law suit for the clients. Just give the information to the state."
    To my knowledge the residents of that apartment complex still don't know. I left that job in 2020.
    I'm pretty sure the reports for the state are public record and I'm not sure what I can say but I'll say if you live in Maryland in a town with a name similar to "Stonetown", next to a "on the move Pegasus" gas station near/on "Atlanta" Avenue, you might want to request those reports from the MDE.

    • @seannahunt1613
      @seannahunt1613 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I know people who live around there. It's near a retirement community. Thanks for leaving the clues.

    • @joeypeterson9198
      @joeypeterson9198 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Why don’t YOU tell the residents if you think they don’t know?

    • @dinof.8290
      @dinof.8290 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That story sucked

    • @Lucas-fl6py
      @Lucas-fl6py 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      i can't believe this... are you referring to the one with the address number 30900/2? next to that curve in the road??

    • @TheRoonie222
      @TheRoonie222 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Lucas-fl6py :) I love Greek food.

  • @scottleespence752
    @scottleespence752 2 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    There is currently a situation here in Oakland, California where a marijuana grow operation has installed 10 diesel generators to power their lights. The operation is in a predominantly black neighborhood and has significantly affected the air quality.

    • @lanafonseca5565
      @lanafonseca5565 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Gotta get that weed bro

    • @RM_VFX
      @RM_VFX 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's ironic that they voted for the chronic.

    • @bradleybrown8399
      @bradleybrown8399 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@RM_VFX not everyone did.

    • @izdotcarter
      @izdotcarter 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Im an oakland resident. Which neighbourhood?

  • @SwankySpitfire
    @SwankySpitfire 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    17:16
    The correct answers are:
    Baby crib grenades, it’s in the episode about police search warrants. And the elderly being eaten by alligators, from the episode about retirement homes.
    Surprisingly, the only fake one is the orthodontist bullying, and I can only assume that John will jump on that as soon as he sees this comment.

  • @ForeverMe543
    @ForeverMe543 2 ปีที่แล้ว +189

    The Baltimore Back River was only JUST classified as dangerously hazardous. My parents have told me it has been unsafe since they lived in Baltimore (they are 60). When we drive to my grandfathers (not white) it smells like death even with the car windows up.

    • @MrUrbanApollo
      @MrUrbanApollo 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      You know poor white people live in the same area.... I’m tired of white liberals ignoring other white folk because they wanna speak for us POC. We’re all the fucking same....

    • @edwinwilkes4015
      @edwinwilkes4015 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh thank God he's not white! I would've thought you were fully racist instead of just a little racist

    • @arizjones
      @arizjones 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Black people have been in control of government in Baltimore for decades. So you are saying they are racist against themselves?

    • @MatthewFrazierr
      @MatthewFrazierr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Why did you put “not white”

    • @bengaliinplatforms1268
      @bengaliinplatforms1268 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MatthewFrazierr To virtue signal, poor white people have none of these problems you see, because of white supremacy you see.

  • @dthaysjr
    @dthaysjr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    The thumbnail just said "Environmental Racism" and I thought - that is the stuff that the right makes fun of the left for. Then I watched it... huh... didn't know this is actually a real thing. Good job John, once again teaching us about real problems that actually matter.

    • @corrupt1user
      @corrupt1user 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's not, it's CLASSISM. The rich have always dumped on the poor, Racism is just a diversion tactic to avoid talking about class.

    • @benvoliothefirst
      @benvoliothefirst 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Welcome, and in case you haven't realized it yet, the right is the devil.

    • @Leopoldshark
      @Leopoldshark 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I would enjoy a 20 minute piece of the unequal conservation priorities of white bears (polar, half of pandas), while ignoring brown and black bears.

    • @corrupt1user
      @corrupt1user 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Leopoldshark Because polar bears are currently "vulnerable" whereas Black and Brown are both "least concern"?

    • @jamesticknor1134
      @jamesticknor1134 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's because he really means "disparate racial impact". The left really needs to work on their terminology and slogans. I thought the same thing initially. Before watching it, I played a little game I often do with media titles that don't make sense to me. The game basically goes: How can this title possibly make sense? And I literally think about how it could make sense.
      Point being, it's not you; it's the poor messaging. This is probably the biggest edge conservatives have over us nowadays. Bill Maher isn't wrong when he harps on this.

  • @tylerhackner9731
    @tylerhackner9731 2 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    I love how hilarious yet still powerfully impactful this show is

    • @harvey3rdman464
      @harvey3rdman464 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Mrs Blume Not with _that_ attitude, citizen.

    • @oioi3008
      @oioi3008 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      "Powerfully impactful" lmao

    • @jaylahallen4326
      @jaylahallen4326 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@oioi3008 in only 12 hours this show received over 1 million views. That means at least 1 million people received some sort of awareness on environmental racism. I would say that is pretty impactful.

    • @harvey3rdman464
      @harvey3rdman464 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jaylahallen4326 Not to ignorant dolts and trolls. They only thrive on attention. Their mothers abandoned them or their fathers fucked them and take it out on everybody else. They can't help it. We should just pity them.

    • @oioi3008
      @oioi3008 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jaylahallen4326 yeah its super powerfully impactful. I may even say super powerfully impactfully good

  • @robocook01
    @robocook01 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I know this is a bit off topic but: The richest and poorest zip codes in Canada are divided by one street in Vancouver, BC. On the west side of the street you have the financial/commercial district with big shiny buildings, clean sidewalks, streetside cafes and boutiques and on the east you have skid row, filled with decaying shuttered buildings, trash and needles strewn all over the sidewalks and the addicted homeless overdosing in broad daylight. Literally, the width of one road, 10 metres(30 ft) separates the richest from the poorest people in the country. It's completely insane. 😩

  • @Cre80s
    @Cre80s 2 ปีที่แล้ว +233

    The ultimate point here is that these toxic industries shouldn't be just away from "certain neighborhoods" but ANYWHERE!! No land needs to be trashed and poisoned like this, at all, ANYWHERE. If we can't exist without industries that are doomed to be so toxic, then we're all beyond fucked.

    • @robcampbell3387
      @robcampbell3387 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      100%. If your business model revolves around decimating the environment and ruining the health of residents then you shouldn't be in business.

    • @tanyawade5197
      @tanyawade5197 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Truly!

    • @michaelmiller5566
      @michaelmiller5566 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      There are sacrifices for industrialization. If there were no pollutants then you wouldn't have a phone to watch this...

    • @Nobushido
      @Nobushido 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Yet all your food and belongings have contributed to the problem… unless of course you are a libertarian growing your own in the middle of nowhere.

    • @Nobushido
      @Nobushido 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@michaelmiller5566 yup, more “activists” need to hear this. They’ve done nothing but consume from the system they whine about. It’s always someone else’s problem.

  • @ronkirk5099
    @ronkirk5099 2 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    I was raised in So Cal during the 50's & 60's when air pollution there from cars (gasoline was still leaded and diesel was high sulfur) and industry was the worst in the country. In this case, air pollution was an equal opportunity killer and it affected everyone no matter where you lived in the valley. Long term studies have shown that children who lived in those conditions have 10-15% less lung function as adults than the population at large to say nothing of the IQ points shaved off by the lead we breathed. The Clean Air and Clean Water Acts alone have probably saved millions of Americans even if the results have been uneven and unfairly applied.

    • @tigerlily1118
      @tigerlily1118 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Too bad the Supreme Court just repealed The Clean Water Act..... 😰

    • @lincolnsand5127
      @lincolnsand5127 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@tigerlily1118 What? The SCOTUS has not struck down the Clean Water Act. I have no idea where you got that from. In fact, it got strengthened recently in County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_of_Maui_v._Hawaii_Wildlife_Fund). Your comment is spreading misinformation.

    • @joeybleu66
      @joeybleu66 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      true but socialism is very expensive. its hard wired right into your state constitution takes i think a 2/3 majority to change it. 13.3% personal income tax, how much sales tax and other regulatory ways of fleecing the citizens. its too expensive for the middle class they are leaving. Cali has had a population decline for 10 years. your weather is atrocious. but cali alone counted for four of the eight million votes Biden won by. just saying

  • @FishCakeIce
    @FishCakeIce 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    When I was in college, I did a project about the racial disparity of solar panel distribution, which might sound like the most boring and unimportant topic ever, but if you're watching John Oliver, I assume you're intelligent enough to understand the nuance of economic power disparity that can cause and patient enough to read my whole comment.
    Even when adjusted for home ownership and income, predominantly black and brown communities still deployed solar panels at lower rates than predominantly white, East Asian, and equally mixed communities. We found it was because, based on someone's zipcode, there were less government-subsidized solar panel deployment programs (basically the government pays you to put up solar panels or gives you a good loan) and the loans in the area were a lot less favorable (higher interest rates, lower loan amount). It's important because not only is solar panel deployment an indicator for other racial, economic, and environmental inequalities, solar panels provide quite a bit of benefit to the homeowner and community at large (cheaper electricity, less high-pollution energy production, increased value of home, increased value of community, boost in other clean environment programs, etc.)!

    • @dutchguy7299
      @dutchguy7299 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      How about planning, saving, etc.. is that a white thing? if black areas didnt receive subsidiaries, then thats disgusting of course.

    • @vodkaboy
      @vodkaboy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      very interesting thanks for sharing

  • @eesguidetothegalaxy3907
    @eesguidetothegalaxy3907 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I work at a High School Roseland/Pullman neighborhoods in Chicago. Look up the behavioral issues of a child that might be affected by lead poisoning. Then look up and see Roseland is in the top 10 neighborhoods affected by this crisis. Now look up Koch brothers and "pet coke" and see another issue for my school. I think I might show your monologue to my students and then have them research the same items and see what they think... On a side note, been following you since the Daily Show, love your courage to engage audiences on a reasoned, researched, fact based, not afraid people will switch channels when confronted with the need to "think," attitude you have. TV is dying, streaming is only a prop to the future of things like snapchat or virtual reality. You're a smart, important, ethical person. Look beyond cable and find some other mediums to explore. Just my advice.

  • @infl8urshoes
    @infl8urshoes 2 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    I found a related appalling note - the U.S. Superfund has an official "Non Priority List (NPL)" that includes sites that have been on there for decades without any date by which they will be cleaned up. IMHO, every site meeting Superfund criteria must immediately be assigned a date within the ensuing 10 years when the cleanup will be COMPLETED. I think there's a hope that people will simply forget the site was declared toxic and ignore what leeches into the soil and nearby water in the meantime.

    • @SicilianAmericanDreams
      @SicilianAmericanDreams 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      In Portland Oregon we have a superfund site here our River that goes through the city is filled with toxic runoff from factories and poisoned fish that you can't eat and it's been a SF site for over 10 years now easily. They haven't even started any cleanup

    • @franklewis6943
      @franklewis6943 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      "NPL" is an acronym for "National Priority List", not "Non Priority List".

  • @maxwortel8986
    @maxwortel8986 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    When the writers of batman give you a fictional place called "crime alley"
    But real life gives you "cancer alley"
    Yikes

  • @mountainhun
    @mountainhun 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I was on an archaeological survey, and the place we were surveying had once been a colored neighborhood near a ConocoPhillips plant. There was a spill or contamination, and it was so bad the company had to be forced to buy out the neighborhood, try to renew the ground by building a park. When we were digging, we had to wear gloves and stop if we encountered water, cause it was still so heavily polluted.
    But my therapist was from that town, and she'd never even heard about it, even though it had happened in the 90's, I believe.

    • @ryancappo
      @ryancappo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I have a feeling that is why the EPA doesn't inform residents of one site, because then they would have to inform residents of all of the different sites.

  • @HLBear
    @HLBear ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Justin Pearson is a State Rep in Tennessee now (2023) and isbdoing a fantastic job fighting for Memphis. Go Justin!!

  • @ndh9786
    @ndh9786 2 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    When you can get more facts and learn more about the government from a comedian then actual government you know somthing is werry wrong here.
    John Oliver 2024!

    • @nobodyspecial4702
      @nobodyspecial4702 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      He's an immigrant, he can't run.

    • @robertmartin6800
      @robertmartin6800 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well that's why you don't trust the government and you don't give it more power than it already has.

    • @maxmustermann9587
      @maxmustermann9587 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      In medieval times only the jester was able to tell the truth. These times are also known as the _Dark Age._

    • @delevilme
      @delevilme 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      you never got it from the government, always got it from the media.

    • @rlud304
      @rlud304 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I love Oliver too but that "2024!" stuff is so astonishingly stupid in so many ways, I don't even know where to start.

  • @Hotshot2k4
    @Hotshot2k4 2 ปีที่แล้ว +131

    Environmentalism AND anti-racism within one political issue? I can't imagine anything exciting conservative lawmakers more than striking down any and all attempts at addressing this issue.

    • @oioi3008
      @oioi3008 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      🤡

    • @espo6970
      @espo6970 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The Shingle Mountain can be seen on Google maps and its not in a black community or any community, it's in an industrial area 1 mile east from a neighborhood that has asphalt shingles on all of their roofs and asphalt driveways in front of all the homes and the roads they drive on and the parking lots they park on are all asphalt. I also google mapped the pipeline, if it ran straight it would've cut right through the city but but going south under the city where they ran the pipeline is farmland where theres no homes, buildings, sewerlines, water mains, electral lines, sidewalks in the way, also no trees in the way so no roots so that would be the path of least resistance, around the city and through the farmlands makes sense to me.

    • @mitchellblake1475
      @mitchellblake1475 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      McConnell would get an erection so fast it'd cause a sonic boom

    • @Gobackto4chan
      @Gobackto4chan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      You called it. There’s already an “alternative expert” in the comments downplaying it.

    • @TheCowardRobertFord
      @TheCowardRobertFord 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      All you need is add guns and the trifecta is complete

  • @jenroses
    @jenroses 2 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    We found out my old workplace was next to a superfund site after two of us in the office had children with severe birth defects within a single year.

    • @jenroses
      @jenroses 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      The EPA said the site we worked at was not a risk.

    • @missgolgistain5801
      @missgolgistain5801 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I hope you guys can sue for stuff like that.

    • @Marvin-ii7bh
      @Marvin-ii7bh 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jenroses america: the country where youre are free to die so that the elite can make some more money

    • @katelynbrown98
      @katelynbrown98 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      That reminds me of the New Jersey high school that's in the news now for being linked to more than a hundred people's cancers.

    • @deadinside8781
      @deadinside8781 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Fucking horrendous. Birth defects are in my DNA but for it to happen to people on purpose is maddening.

  • @trismichael
    @trismichael 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I appreciate John’s honesty that he doesn’t remember his wedding anniversary or wife’s birthday. That’s keeping it real.

  • @mashobane9982
    @mashobane9982 2 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    John is the most unlikely but most effective up stander on matters of discrimination. THANK YOU JOHN

    • @ngonzales3781
      @ngonzales3781 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yea its really easy when you're not funny at all.

    • @Gardstyle35
      @Gardstyle35 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      like a good leftists he puts race in things that have nothing to do with it.

    • @brainchildguru
      @brainchildguru 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Gardstyle35 the ratio is pretty balanced on this video which is a good sign!

    • @lct9031
      @lct9031 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Except when blacks are the ones discriminating though

    • @Gardstyle35
      @Gardstyle35 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @jabroni destroyer be a good lefti and just never listen to those that have a different view. Bonus points if u shout them down when they give a speech at universtiy or u dox them etc... like u know the fashist did :D

  • @sharr630
    @sharr630 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    When I was 7 or 8 years old (in the 1980s) my school sent parents a notification that lead had been detected in the drinking fountains. Fortunately, I rarely drank it and definitely didn't after that. A month later, the school told us that the water was now safe to drink. My school was located in a well-off area of suburban Detroit. I can only imagine what the kids in other areas were drinking completely unawares.