Amanda Scott
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2,179 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 25 Feb
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The River Hudson is one of the most polluted rivers on the planet.
And apparently you used to be able to tell what colour Ford was making their cars this year by the colour of the water.
And we've ended up in a space where we are so disconnected from the web of life that...
We don't even care that we're polluting the water that we are then going to drink.
All of our rain is now completely contaminated with PFAs, forever chemicals, which are known endocrine disruptors and known carcinogens.
And there is not a single drop of water on the planet that isn't contaminated with these because the people who make them have much bigger lawyers than anybody else.
And there are 16,000 of these chemicals and we regulate seven of them.
And as soon as somebody manages to regulate one, they change one atom in the molecule and re-release it, and it's a whole new thing, and it's not regulated.
And somehow it seems to me this is at the heart of the corruption of the death cult of predatory capitalism, is it's more important that a company continues to make a profit than that
the water is safe to drink or swim in, or we keep oceans actually alive because phytoplankton produces a significant amount of our oxygen and we would like to continue to be able to breathe the air.
None of this sinks in because we have a system where profit is everything.
And I'm not expecting you as a water campaigner to have an answer for that, but I would like to unpick
your experience of how the corruption works.
Because even sewage company people drink water.
Even sewage company people might occasionally, I guess, like to go and swim in a river.
They might like to be able to surf without surfing past raw sewage.
All of the things that are no longer possible in the world that we inhabit.
What do you think or what is your experience of how they go to work every day without hitting major internal contradictions?
Okay.
OK, because asking questions is a political act.
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