The problems with our world will NEVER be fixed with corrupt politicians and them throwing money at the problems. They can throw free money until there is no more money and it will not fix the issues!!!
It is past time for actions NOT words or nice speeches in public forums!!!
Let’s start with a few things….
1. Since the invention of PLASTICS way too much plastic waste ends up in our oceans with politicians always promising to do something about it (throwing money at the problem) but no real action ever happens. Our oceans are FOREVER contaminated because everyone wants to throw money at the problem instead of getting off their asses and doing something about it (meaning go pick up some trash, take barges out and begin clearing up the garbage islands etc) – NOTHING will ever get better when no one is willing to put some effort into real solutions!!!
2. Climate change….. This issue is tied to so many aspects of daily life it is difficult to find a place to begin. Polluting our oceans interferes with the natural water cycle (thus making it harder to produce rain and help the planet cool). Wildfires that rage send toxic smoke into the air that reduces the oxygen, increases gases and drops toxic chemicals everywhere. The loss of so many trees, forests and greenery due to logging, wildfires and mass clearing also reduces the oxygen we return to our atmosphere – thus increasing the temperatures and gases in the air with no natural way to reduce them. Reflective surfaces – no one even talks about these, but every reflective surface generates HEAT that reflects back toward the sun, thus increasing temperatures. Those surfaces can be all sorts of things like solar farms, office buildings with wall to wall glass windows or mirrored windows, anything metal, it ALL adds heat being reflected back towards the sun which in turn heats up the air. The use of chemicals on everything! Fertilizer, water treatment, protective coatings, literally EVERYTHING now has some toxic chemical that ends up in our water and air. I could go on forever about all the man-made shit that contributes to this and NONE of them being carbon emissions, but I will pen an article on just this issue another day!
3. Municipal water – what a fucking joke! Chemically treated water that is worse for our bodies than drinking from the horse trough!!! Back in the 70’s I was a young child and the push for fluoride was HUGE. It wasn’t well regulated or really well researched back then either!!! Our parents pumped the children full of it though and many of us paid dearly for it later in life. What they didn’t know is that excessive fluoride can do the OPPOSITE of what they had been told. Too much fluoride can damage teeth and gums worse than a meth addiction!!! I was one who had no choice but to have all of my remaining teeth removed at the tender age of 26 because of being overdosed with fluoride at a young age!!!
4. Raw sewage being dumped into our fresh water supplies and oceans…. This destroys the ecosystem and biological life in those waterways. This sewage does NOT come from Johnny Jackass running his toilet pipe into a creek. THIS sewage is runoff from city streets where homeless people shit on sidewalks. The vast majority of sewage contamination comes from large cities NOT small rural communities!!!
5. Infertile soil – For centuries we have raped our ground without giving back to it the proper way and now we are forced to use chemical fertilizers (instead of natural ones) which in turn contaminates surrounding water supplies, sickens the people and animals near where these fertilizers are used, affects lungs of every living thing in the vicinity and has been known to cause COPD and cancer. Even when we seek out natural fertilizer – like manure (poop) we seek for the “treated” kind instead of the natural kind!!! Now, our crops yield far less than 100 years ago, our ground is so contaminated that some crops will not grow anymore and our farmers cannot produce enough food to supply the world’s population anymore.
6. Crime – Not many decades ago our judicial system used to give young men a choice if they got in trouble, jail or the armed forces. This option was taken off the table and now our jails and prisons are overflowing, crime rates have risen to epic proportions, violent crime is no longer being deterred with the soft hands of leftist prosecutors and judges who think it is all society’s fault and the criminal is a victim of the society they live in. When there is no consequence for a crime there is no deterrent to keep it from happening again!!!
7. Profiting from jails and prisons – When we chose to allow private corporations to assume control over jails and prisons we turned them into a money making enterprise for corrupt corporations that had no interest in having empty cells. It profits corporations when people are locked up. The more people behind bars the more money they make!!!!
8. The FDA – This agency is a joke! Ever since they came into existence they have harmed the people they claim to protect!!! This part is about the FOOD part of this agency…. How much processed food have they given their stamp of approval on that has turned out to be VERY bad for people? Toxic, cancer causing, disease causing and so many other foods they approved, many are still being sold today!!! Nutrition labels are a SCAM. The big numbers are to distract you from the actual list of ingredients!!! If you read that list and look up the ingredients you will SEE what they try to hide in plain sight!!! Take good old Rice a Roni as an example. Look at how many types of SODIUM (salt) are listed on the list of ingredients BUT that nutrition label claims it is within safe limits!!! Not to mention all the chemicals in the ingredients that we should not be ingesting under any circumstances!!! READ INGREDIENTS not nutrition labels!!!
9. Landfills – A HUGE source of methane gas that contributes to the heating of the planet. Why? Because we are a planet of consumers that has little desire to learn how to reuse things, fix them or repurpose them!! We just toss them away without giving it a second thought!!! For those who do not know how a landfill works it’s simple really. The trash is taken to the landfill and dumped in a huge hole. A bulldozer then runs it over many times to squish it as flat as possible and when the hole is full the dozer simply covers it with dirt and moves over to dig a new hole. Yup, outta sight outta mind right? Let’s also mention that landfill water runoff contaminates local ground water supplies and forever pollutes the soil!!! Some of the things buried in landfills will never decompose – they will be buried there forever!!!
10. Vehicles – Originally this was supposed to be a lifetime investment – meaning the vehicle was designed to last for decades. Young couples bought a vehicle and when the kids got old enough they would give it to the kid and go buy themselves a new car. Now we have disposable vehicles. So many end up in junk yards, being sold for scrap, crushed and recycled except MANY newer cars have parts that cannot be recycled!!! Those waste parts end up in landfills!!!
11. Electronics – Household electronics are also no longer made to last. Most newer appliances will break long before they are even paid off! The prices go up and the durability goes down. Many end up in landfills because people are too lazy to recycle them, or the trash services charges extra to haul them off so they end up dumped in illegal dumps.
12. Food waste – Oh yes we have tons of this!!! Restaurants are the WORST for this, but grocery stores do it too!! Instead of donating left overs or outdated items they prefer to throw it away and lock the dumpsters while homeless people will literally sit next to those dumpsters and die of starvation. Food banks that never have enough to help everyone could benefit from all that food waste too. Private households also waste. Many people will toss good food simply because they don’t like it, or it is beyond the date printed on the package. Companies began putting use by dates on things because they were not selling enough product – so the use by date is simply to encourage consumers to toss “out of date” stuff and buy more – not because the item is actually bad for consumption!!!
13. Packaging – We have so much waste from product packaging that we throw away more packaging than the items that packaging housed. This packaging material ends up in landfills and much of it will never decompose, like Styrofoam! Pay attention to the packaging on everything you purchase and you will see precisely what I mean!
Dr Seuss wrote an amazing story a long time ago – The Lorax. It is about corrupt corporate greed and the damage it does to our world.
Until someone like you cares a whole awful lot… nothing will change or get better, but caring is NOT giving fancy speeches, marching and protesting – CARING is DOING. Pick up trash from our oceans and lakes, creeks etc…. Teach people how to reuse / repurpose instead of carelessly throwing things away that fill up the landfills. Start small and teach as you go!!!
Until we consume less, care more and take care of this planet instead of turning it into the largest trash pile in the universe we are contributing to our own demise – not from climate change though – from the literal garbage!!!
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