When governments fail, local communities can and must step in to stave off disaster
Helene was Proof that you cannot rely on DC, or even your state for that matter
(Madge Waggy) – Crumbling infrastructure has long served as a signal that a society is unraveling. The slow, steady erosion of the very systems that hold a civilization together — roads, water, power, communications — is a warning and a catalyst for total breakdown. When these systems falter, they signal deeper rot. And left unchecked, that rot spreads, accelerating collapse.
Take Jackson, Mississippi, as an example. An ongoing water crisis there is not just a local, underreported tragedy — it’s a microcosm of nationwide decay, a warning for all of us all about what could be coming. This is what systemic collapse looks like in real time.
In August 2022, Jackson’s water system caved under the pressure of severe flooding. More than 150,000 people were left without clean drinking water for many weeks. The extreme flooding dealt the final blow, but the real culprit was decades of neglect. The city’s water infrastructure, built on a century-old system of corroding pipes, had been rotting for years.
A decade earlier, the EPA had slapped Jackson with a federal consent decree, citing 2,300 illegal sewer overflows over five years. In 2013, a master plan highlighted the full scale of the problem: over 100 miles of decaying cast-iron pipes, some from the early 1900s, all but useless. The repair bill amounted to a staggering $600 million — money the city just didn’t have.
This wasn’t just a random failure; it was a…
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