Al Jazeera Discovers Toxic Waste Exists After DECADES
Dozens are in the hospital in Gabes, Tunisia, with respiratory issues, which Al Jazeera dutifully reports as an 'environmental crisis.' Conveniently unmentioned is that the chemical industrial complex (Groupe Chimique Tunisien) has been spewing phosphates and other delightful toxins into the air and sea since the 1970s. This isn't a surprise; it's the inevitable consequence when profits for
multinational corporations (and local governments happy to enable them) trump human health. One might wonder why it takes 'dozens hospitalized' for a 50-year-old ecological disaster to rate a headline, even in sympathetic outlets. Perhaps the ongoing slow poisoning of an entire region only becomes 'news' when the bodies pile up fast enough to disrupt the narrative. How many Tunisians must breathe
poison before the West notices the toxic fallout of outsourced industry?