Newswise — Chris Sellers is an environmental and health historian, and history professor at Stony Brook University takes a closer look at the Flint, Michigan water crisis and shares the following: "The physical conditions that have made it literally toxic for Flint residents are neither as exceptional nor as recent as much of the media coverage suggests.” Sellers says the Flint case is not isolated. "An estimated three to six million miles of lead pipes across our country still carry water, and most all of them are vulnerable to similar dangers, whether at the hands of short-sighted and prejudicial bureaucrats or politicians whose ideology or opportunism leads them to blithely dismiss well-established science.” He adds "The best solution would be to replace our lead lines systematically and proactively, not just one crisis-beset city at a time. Until we do so, it’s a safe bet that more Flints lie on our horizon." Chris Sellers is a historian of environment, culture and health with a long-standing interest in the modern United States. He has written about the history of occupational and environmental health, of cities and suburbs, of industrial development and its risks, and of the environmental movement. More recently his work has explored ways in which this history can be intertwined, intersected and compared with that of other parts of the world.
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