Linda Mussmann delivered a lecture on How Hudson, New York has changed by this city’s industrialized and how important it is to raise the awareness of protecting Hudson. She showed us how residents’ lives have changed by showing us a movie filed by her and her allies. In the movie, I saw that Hudson residents’ placid life is changed into instable by increasing opportunities and industrial pollution.
It was painful for me to see that Hudson residents who were once advocates of protecting Hudson eventually left the city. They gave up defending their city. Many of them clearly know that the city government is corrupt, that government’s decision making is not transparent, that merely taxing is short-sighted, and that death rate and cancer rate are increasing in town. However, they give way to pollution and urban sprawl. Pollution is replacing their blue sky with a grey one, and urban sprawl is replacing their bird singing with cars’ horn.
There is a fight!
A fight between government and Hudson residents, a fight between Hudson residents’ determination of defending the city and their thoughts of giving up, a fight between the longing for more money and a desire for a quiet life, and a fight between blue sky and grey sky.
Hudson is an epitome of urban sprawl that is happening rapidly domestically and internationally. Could we imagine how many more people are suffering from their town’s changes? And how many more people are fighting and how many more are giving up?
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