Wetlands like the one on the Midway Plaisance serve a critical role in combating air pollution.
Club soccer players work out during practice on the Midway Plaisance near the University of Chicago campus on Oct. 18, 2020, as a light rain falls. The Chicago Park District and the city of Chicago recently announced a plan to drain a vital wetland on the east end of the Midway Plaisance.
The few undeveloped areas that are left are slowly either having trees torn down for development or are up for sale. The only undeveloped areas left are the occasional forest preserve such as Herrick Lake and Blackwell and the bike paths such as the Illinois Prairie Path and Great Western trails. We should take off our blinders and dispense with half truths. The Natural Resources Defense Council estimates health costs due to fossil fuel pollution and climate change at more than $800 billion per year. The human suffering that these entail cannot be estimated.without getting teary-eyed. Emotions always get the best of me when I am reminded of the strong-sounding alarm that is needed for a more reliable, safe, equitable and regeneratively managed food system in Illinois.
What does a resilient local food system look like for the average Illinoisan? Right now, it is rare, and hopefully, delays like what the Illinois Equitable Access Towards Sustainable Systems program experienced the past several months will be a thing of the past. • Respect human health. Legislators and decision-makers must make a difference — drum up the political will to bring change. Diets are suffering. Families are vulnerable. “Good food” can be medicine replacing prescriptions and chemotherapy someday.
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