What good is privilege if you’re still being poisoned?

Wealthy celebrities in Calabasas, CA need to accept toxic waste just like poor people in the worst parts of Louisiana? Maybe there isn’t as much inequality as I thought. {{ LOL }}

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/magazine/landfill-calabasas-los-angeles-wildfire-ash.html?smid=url-share

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The NYT Magazine website is not very smart, you can copy the whole article…

How a Ritzy L.A. Enclave Learned a Bitter Lesson About the Limits of Its Wealth
Calabasas residents thought it would be easy to keep wildfire ash from being trucked to their local landfill. They were wrong.

The Calabasas Landfill and the Saratoga Hills neighborhood.Credit…Kevin Cooley for The New York Times
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By Nathaniel Rich
Aug. 24, 2025
Besides posing a humanitarian problem…

A further complication: Much of the waste was probably toxic. Any home built before 1980 is most likely coated with lead paint and insulated with asbestos.

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