It shows how brain damage can take away a certain sense of humanity that would make you care enough not to hurt people for animalistic urges.

Again, I wouldn't say this book is for everyone because it is a very heartwrenching read. But, it uniquely delves into the connection between regulations and uncontainted environmemtal disaster in a way that feels wholly appropriate as we will see land sold off for these purposes once again.

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I think some folks struggle to understand why these regulations came about and they assume that people tgey don't care about will bear the brunt of the damage and die of tragic conditions.

Bundy (and others) better illustrate the kind of comic bookish mutating effect of living with your body replacing calcium with lead and altering your abilities in horrifying ways that feel uncontrolable. Serial killers also demonstrate that brain damage doesn't make you stupid.

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Who, incidently was involved in politics.

I know not everyone has the stomach for true crime and some of the ways it lifts perpetrators above victims. I think this book salvages itself because it is very interested in how environmental damage travels beyond containment and how corporate profiteers never protect the environment or the people who trust them to do so.

But, keep this recommendation in case you need it to help argue against slag pits and smoke stacks.

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A big part of what she weaves together involves the degree to which each of the serial killers she covers were growing up in lead (and other) rich environments near industrial areas. She ties this to developers who build too close to industry as well as the industries that calculate that the lives of children are cheaper than the profits the industries stand to make.

The true crime angle does a good job of showing how the damage leaves the site of the disaster through people like Bundy.

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Art requires very little in the way of materials or training. Both can help make for more precise practice but you can draw or write in the dirt, you can braid grasses, you can bleed ink, etc.

When we don't have a way to artistically express ourselves, we often meddle in the world fueled by our discontent.

Art also lets us see just how connected we can be with our world beyond need. We don't "need" art like we need air but art does breathe life into our souls.

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