In 2014, almost 400 people were found to have cancer in Hoosick falls, out of a population of about 3,400 people, which was linked to chemical pollution in their water. Hoosick Falls lost business, and no one could move because they couldn’t sell their houses.
last year, 7. 2 million gallons of raw sewage was dumped into the Hudson River near Newburg, NY, in one 48 hour period. I grew up in the Hudson, that was the river I always swam in.
I heard this sitting in a NY water quality presentation, and I was distraught. I have always had anxiety about the climate crisis but these disasters were on my front door, and they crippled people I could have known.
At that moment, a thought crossed my mind:
if the climate crisis would be irreversible in 10 years, I will be 27. I just graduated from grad school and at some entry-level job, what can I do?
that is probably the most flawed thought I’ve ever had
I am a child of the internet age. Since I was 8, society has trained me to use the technology necessary to make progress. We all have agency!
So I decided to log out of Netflix, save my watchlist for later, and I started New Era Risen: a non-partisan collective of activists, artists, and everyday youth that seek action through dialogue, not harassment, and change through mass unification and legislative targeting, not awareness.
Because clean drinking water is not a partisan issue, but a basic human right.
So sign our online petition to get NY Legislators to finally allocate the necessary funds towards NYs water infrastructure And get involved with New Era Risen because we need your skills to push this forward.
if legislators refuse to protect our basic survival needs, why should we continue to pay them?
what happened Hoosick falls and Newburg is unacceptable,
It is unacceptable that town members of Hoosick falls went to local, county and state health departments after doing private testing and no one did anything for years
Will, we let them happen again?
Will we stand for such injustice?
-Charlie Olver
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