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...dumping, approved by the Environmental Protection Agency, has stirred noisy protests from commercial and sport fishermen from South Carolina to Maine. Dave Krusa, a Montauk, N.Y., fisherman, regularly hauls up hake and tilefish with ugly red lesions on their bellies and fins that are rotting away. Krusa is among those who believe that contaminants from Dump Site 106 may be borne back toward shore by unpredictable ocean currents. "In the past year, we've seen a big increase of fish in this kind of shape," he says. Who will eat them? New Yorkers, says a Montauk dockmaster. "They're going...
...know it, 'cause they're just stringin' words t'gether, fast as they can. Sorta like Jack Kerouac, drivin' thru Colorado like a prophet, n' sayin' t' himself, "Wow!" Sorta like what you'd say if you subconsciously knew someone was gonna sneak up behind you and dump a bucket of shit on your head, but there was nothin' you could do about...
Some argue that there is a difference between the dilemmas presented by a halfway house and a toxic-waste dump: one is a perceived social threat, the other more directly physical. But from an ethical point of view, there is little distinction, so long as society lawfully sanctions both treatment for drug abusers and manufacturing processes that create poisonous wastes. The problem remains: fewer and fewer communities acknowledge that they have any responsibility to share such common, unpleasant burdens. "The ultimate issue of community is, What do we owe other people?" says Dan Lewis, a Northwestern University urbanologist...
...paralyzed," says Frank Popper, chairman of urban studies at Rutgers University. "Nationwide, no one has been able to place a major hazardous- waste dump since 1980. No large metropolitan airport has been sited since 1961. The lack of locations for new prisons has caused such overcrowding that / some cities have had to release convicted prisoners." Worse, the solutions to these conflicts have tended to be quick fixes. After years of squabbling, Congress finally chose Nevada as a site for nuclear-waste storage, mainly because the state wielded less political clout than the other two contenders, Texas and Washington...
...prison should pay the state to house its criminals. In each instance, the principle of community responsibility for the greater good was paramount. "One of the few things we deprive our middle class of is the opportunity to serve," says Ethicist Gaylin. Whether the problem is a waste dump, a shelter for the homeless or an AIDS hospice, an equitable and beneficial solution, however imperfect, is likely to be one that the community has had a strong hand in shaping...