Cancer Alley taught me the data was never the problem
I noticed the plant before I noticed anything else. Not because it announced itself. Because it was simply there, the way a wall is there: chain-link fence, cooling towers, a low hum I felt in my chest before I understood…
I noticed the plant before I noticed anything else. Not because it announced itself. Because it was simply there, the way a wall is there: chain-link fence, cooling towers, a low hum I felt in my chest before I understood it as sound. I was standing in a man’s backyard in Reserve, Louisiana, holding a notebook, trying not to cough.
His daughter had been hospitalized that week. She was a toddler. …
Cancer Alley taught me the data was never the problem
