Environmental Pollution and the Love Canal
Throughout the country, there are many bodies of water. Each one of these bodies of water has a possible chance of becoming a polluted land. The United States did not really care about the environment, or how harshly others were affected by the environment before. Since people did not care about the environment, it was easy for bodies of water to become polluted. A polluted body of water called the Love Canal was explored for the residents around the area and toxic waste was encountered.
In the late 1970s, there was not much support for the health of the environment, so the air everybody was breathing was not healthy, and nobody cared. The environmental pollution problem, toxic waste, all started from a small canal that was built over one hundred years before as a power source for a community, but the builder could not finish his work. The unfinished canal was then used as a waste dump by the Hooker Chemical Company because nobody needed the canal anymore (Weiss). Families started moving to live right around the area of the Love Canal because it looked like a nice place to live, so people started dying from the hidden waste and chemicals (Gibbs). At that time, nobody, …show more content…
Jimmy Carter said that he did not want to waste money on this problem because he did not expect it to matter in the future. The final outcome to the talk with Jimmy Carter was that anybody that was pregnant would be able to move. The country did not want anymore birth defects (Carter). Finally, the state provided money for all seven hundred fifty families to move (Anderson). At last, the country had cared a little more about the devastating problem with toxic waste and Hooker Chemical Company. At that point, Jimmy Carter and the United States had understood what the outcome of another problem like that could possibly be
Throughout the country, there are many bodies of water. Each one of these bodies of water has a possible chance of becoming a polluted land. The United States did not really care about the environment, or how harshly others were affected by the environment before. Since people did not care about the environment, it was easy for bodies of water to become polluted. A polluted body of water called the Love Canal was explored for the residents around the area and toxic waste was encountered.
In the late 1970s, there was not much support for the health of the environment, so the air everybody was breathing was not healthy, and nobody cared. The environmental pollution problem, toxic waste, all started from a small canal that was built over one hundred years before as a power source for a community, but the builder could not finish his work. The unfinished canal was then used as a waste dump by the Hooker Chemical Company because nobody needed the canal anymore (Weiss). Families started moving to live right around the area of the Love Canal because it looked like a nice place to live, so people started dying from the hidden waste and chemicals (Gibbs). At that time, nobody, …show more content…
Jimmy Carter said that he did not want to waste money on this problem because he did not expect it to matter in the future. The final outcome to the talk with Jimmy Carter was that anybody that was pregnant would be able to move. The country did not want anymore birth defects (Carter). Finally, the state provided money for all seven hundred fifty families to move (Anderson). At last, the country had cared a little more about the devastating problem with toxic waste and Hooker Chemical Company. At that point, Jimmy Carter and the United States had understood what the outcome of another problem like that could possibly be