Friday, June 4, 2010

I am so sad...

The Gulf of Mexico tragedy...
So tragic it's hard to comprehend...
who is at fault...
Rush Limbaugh says the Sierra Club and all of the tree-huggers are to blame because we won't allow drilling in the pristine areas of the Arctic tundras
and Sarah Palin's Alaska...

DUH!!!

My beautiful, ancient Mighty Muddy...
the majestic Mississippi River.
waters so polluted, I doubt that fish will ever be consumable again,
in my lifetime anyway.

We are now so focused on the gulf that we forget what man has done to the rest of our waterways...
disgusting rivers and streams once teaming with fish and wildlife, now littered with man's waste and pollution, chemical run-off from industrial wastes...
farm chemical run-off, factory farm run-off, human waste run-off.

This is an ash dump site, a scar of shame on a hillside not far from my home. Waste from a power plant negligently dumped on the landscape.
How clever, this site over-looks farm ground that has drainage ditches carved through it so more farm land can be put into production...is that the 'G-word' again...
GREED...
Well, the run-off from this power plant(clean coal), a toxic mercury laden slurry runs into the drainage ditch and to the shores of my Mississippi River...
and the EPA warns you of mercury lead poisoning from paint chips...
WHAT A JOKE!

The fact is, why are you blaming Obama...this travesty has been going on since the industrial revolution began, we are ALL at fault, the single biggest factor is GREED...it's all about the profits!

Each and every one of us pollutes this pristine planet on so many levels...
we waste and we consume!
Think about it...how big is your footprint on this planet
and what are you willing to do about it!

This is just a wake-up call America,
are you listening to the talk on the winds...

We humans, all are to blame...