[Giesela]

Originally Posted by 313Weather

We're fine.

The Great Lakes survived the 1930s dust bowl just fine without evaporating.

But the poisoning is bad. Not doomsday bad, but definitely something we want to nip in the bud now. Whoever's the authority of making sure the lakes are clean needs to get on their job.

Right, just because something was ok in the 30s it means things will be ok in the future. WTF?

[detwahDJ]

Problem is that environmental responsibility and cleanup is an expense for businesses which pollute (read "anti-profit"), OR it's an expense to taxpayers. Neither is popular, so problems fester. It's easier and cheaper to just dump trash and chemicals rather than responsibly recycle or process waste, so our waterways are sewers-of-convenience. Lots of lobbying and legislation takes place out of sight, under the radar of the public whose attention is focused elsewhere. Citizens aren't motivated until the garbage flows up to their front door.
Rush Limbaugh, for instance, says he will worry about pollution when it starts coming out of his faucets. Seems to be a common opinion.

[Luzette]

Originally Posted by detwahDJ

Problem is that environmental responsibility and cleanup is an expense for businesses which pollute (read "anti-profit"), OR it's an expense to taxpayers. Neither is popular, so problems fester. It's easier and cheaper to just dump trash and chemicals rather than responsibly recycle or process waste, so our waterways are sewers-of-convenience. Lots of lobbying and legislation takes place out of sight, under the radar of the public whose attention is focused elsewhere. Citizens aren't motivated until the garbage flows up to their front door.
Rush Limbaugh, for instance, says he will worry about pollution when it starts coming out of his faucets. Seems to be a common opinion.

By the time it's coming out of Limbaugh's faucets even he will be singing a different tune. I don't understand how people can treat our planet with such distain and ill regard. The earth is our home yet we treat it as a dump. We'll reap what we sow and already are.

[Rafo1981]

Methinks Rush is usually spewing the sewage from his mouth, not the other way around.

[Luzette]

Originally Posted by Rafo1981

Methinks Rush is usually spewing the sewage from his mouth, not the other way around.

I'll agree with that. It would take a lot of sewage coming from a faucet to beat what spews from Limbaugh's mouth imo.