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RFK Jr. Took His Grandkids for a Dip in a Sewage-Contaminated Creek For Mother’s Day
(www.vanityfair.com)
this post was submitted on 13 May 2025
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just looked it up. the place he went to was literally 2 miles from the white house, in the middle of a fucking 6 million metropolis. honestly, regardless of what the national park said, who chooses a place like that for a swim and expects it not to be polluted?
Me to be honest. Where, if not in your capital, would you be able to enforce environmental protection of your streams?
Granted our biggest cities are smaller than those of most other countries, but in Zürich, Bern and Basel you see people bathing in the Limmat, Aare and Rhine respectively all the time.
Environmental protection + Conservatives is usually a recipe for environmental disaster.
Which is ironic, the EPA was created by Nixon.
He only created it to block Congress from passing something more effective.
He certainly didn't do it out of concern for the environment.
He did like trains though! But I think that's moreso just the end result of being from SoCal more specifically Yorba Linda.
Bro, Switzerland has gotta be a pretty notable exception.
I have literally never seen more beautiful and clean waters in my life than the ones I saw while visiting Switzerland.
It's sewage infrastructure from the 1800s that needs to be repaired - apparently the pipe cracked. I don't know why it hasn't been fixed yet, that's wild.
idunno people swim here in city center rivers pretty often in nicer parts of europe.
I mean water quality was a huge problem for the Paris olynpics.
I still check if there have been any recent discharges before swimming and I live by the sea where there is a lot more water to dilute it. Must be a lot more concentrated in a river.