When Cain asked, “Am I my brother’s keeper? “, it was only the two of them and they were their only threat. Our family has flourished and the threats have burgeoned, transcending the individual and personal, morphing into the corporate and anonymous.
We are our brother’s keeper. But the major and overwhelming threat to the health and welfare of our nation and our environment has become human enterprise and exploitation. Health care has been compromised and eviscerated by human “progress.”
The quality of air, water, land, biomass and biosphere has been impinged and violated by anonymous corporate interests. Human health care is no longer an individual right. Health care is a national responsibility.