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Imagine there is a toxic waste pile of uranium tailings just a half mile from your house. The waste is leaking into the groundwater and moving in a “plume,” as the scientists call it, away from the site and fanning throughout the aquifer. You must haul drinking water from town because the state has condemned your well. Your family had been using that well forever, but one day the authorities suddenly decided that the levels of radium were dangerously high.
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Moore, L. (2013). When Cookies Aren’t Enough. In: Common Ground on Hostile Turf. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-412-3_10
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