2026-09-04
32 分钟This is In Conversation from Apple News.
I'm Shumita Basu.
Today, how forever chemicals have poisoned the world.
For most of his life,
Michael Hickey never saw himself as an activist.
He's an insurance underwriter.
He has a fear of public speaking.
That's investigative journalist Mariah Blake.
He had no interest in environmental issues.
He had no interest in politics.
He liked to joke that he got his news from ESPN.
Then, in 2010,
his father was diagnosed with an aggressive kidney cancer
and died a few years later at the age of 70.
Michael was devastated,
and he started to think about how this could have happened,
and about some of the other deaths
in their small town of Hoosick Falls, New York.
Everyone in the community had stories of people
who had died young of cancer