Name: Tristan Goris

Social Justice Group: 2021-2022, Water Pollution and Climate Change

Date of Fieldwork: February 1, 2022

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):Linda Escalante

Type of Fieldwork: Interview

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork?[:: :

Linda Escalante communicates the needs of the environment to public officials to pass bills such as the Clean Water Act, and other movements to better care for our surroundings. She works for the NRDC. Linda is important to our topic because being able to inform others on critical issues is extremely important in order to work together and get things done.

During the interview, Linda explains how impact water preservation in how most wars are over resources that provide economical power, not just water but other crops and items, as well as as how literally everything we do or create comes with a cost to the environment. Even though dying from unclean water seems like a distant past, many are still falling to contaminated water. This is because of many companies and cooperation dumping toxic waste into water ways, spreading throughout all water via trans-boundary contamination.