Why Critical Infrastructures are Critical

2014-08-04

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. If you live in Toledo, Ohio these days, you are coming face to face with a harsh reality: Life in 21st Century America depends critically on infrastructures we typically take for granted. The water supplied to homes and businesses across Toledo is now toxic, apparently due to a naturally occurring “bloom” of algae near the city waterworks’ intake from Lake Erie. The usual corrective – boiling it – just makes the water more ...

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

If you live in Toledo, Ohio these days, you are coming face to face with a harsh reality: Life in 21st Century America depends critically on infrastructures we typically take for granted.

The water supplied to homes and businesses across Toledo is now toxic, apparently due to a naturally occurring “bloom” of algae near the city waterworks’ intake from Lake Erie. The usual corrective – boiling it – just makes the water more deadly.

The problem would be vastly worse if another critical infrastructure – the electric grid – broke down. Whether due to naturally occurring events like intense solar storms or enemy action, widespread and prolonged power outages would not just be an inconvenience. Millions of Americans would die.

We must act now to make our critical infrastructures more resilient. The alternative is unacceptable.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at Secure Freedom.org.

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