Fearing the quality of the drinking water - once a pristine , Proustian memory of the Scituate Reservoir ( used as a background for old Narragansett Beer commercials ) I began regularly buying bottled water a few years ago . Daily radio commercials for home water filtration systems struck me as a PRIVATE solution to a PUBLIC problem. Don't we all have a right to clean, healthy drinking water ? I thought.
Then I learned that those plastic bottles - exposed to heat - interact with the " natural spring " drinking water making them possibly carcinogenic. Is CANCER the perfect metaphor for decaying capitalism ?
I should not be too personally neurotic about any environmental dangers at age 71. But what about my " Little Honey " new born niece - a gift to my family and to the whole world ? Don't innocent kids have a RIGHT TO LIFE in the most elementary sense ? Decaying capitalism just says NO !
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