The Dark Side of Our Obsession With Trapped Thai Children
Children wrap themselves in Mylar blankets. In Thailand, the blankets cover young soccer players trapped two and a half miles inside a flooded cave system. In the United States, the same type of blankets cover children sleeping on a concrete floor in a detention center for immigrants in McAllen, Texas. Nature created one of these tragedies; we created the other one. The media offers us minute-by-minute updates about how the Thai children, in a ra…
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