So many problems in this world today with no acknowledged solutions. I say that's a bunch of manure. We have the capability as humans to fix most of this worlds problems, however the solutions don't make some entity filthy rich or fit some other entities agenda. That's the bottom line, money and agendas. What ever happened to we the people for the people. Love thy neighbor, or even do unto others. Too much greed is what happened and there is no simple solution or overnight fix for the current state of affairs.
I myself don't care for the current EPA. They like many things are out of control. I myself believe our government and current EPA type organizations are just telling us all a bunch of lies. Do you really think global warming exists? I don't. I believe we are on a rock that spins around in space at about 17,000 miles an hour and this rock we live on will change as it will no matter what we do. Climate shift is certainly going on, however I don't believe humans have much if any effect on what this rock/planet does.
I also don't like seeing trash or visible pollution nor do I want to be poisoned by the environment around me any more than any of you do. I was born in the 60's in California and moved to Arizona at 3 years old because my older sister had asthma so bad the L.A. smog at the time was killing her. We went back to visit relatives during vacations and such like Disney Land and Knott's Berry Farm. I was a teenager before I ever saw the San Bernardino mountains because the pollution was so bad. You could not even see half a city block back in those days.
However I have to question how much better is the pollution really? Certainly you can see farther and the sky isn't grey all the time, but is the air we breath really as clean as it appears? Many rivers in the USA had such bad pollution back in those days that not even crawdads survived in them. Most have been cleaned up to what seems like acceptable levels. Fish and other life exists again in those rivers. However how clean is our water really?
I am a fly fisherman and a gold prospector. At one time I got involved in an environmental organization thinking I was going to help. I found out the hard way that what they thought was helping only ended up destroying a natural wild situation. Their idea was to use a backhoe and poison to control how they thought a fishery should be protected. That was about 25 years ago and that fishery still hasn't recovered from what was supposed to save it. All I know now is man sure knows how to f*** stuff up real good. Spotted Owl is another environmental fiasco that is still affecting our forests and has only put people out of work and screwed up our forests worse than they ever were before. There is no end in sight for this kind of foolishness.
I'm going back to air pollution now.....clean air, fact or fiction. Is that air clean just because it appears to be clearer? I say no. Why you might ask? Have you ever read the warning labels on the gas pumps we all use every day? Ever heard of MTBE? This chemical our government uses as an oxygenator in our fuel is about the nastiest chemical man has ever developed. It is a huge cancer causer and goes into your fuel tank and back out the tailpipe as a vapor. Systematically poisoning every one of us slowly. It takes very little of this chemical to poison a large body of water and there is no known way to get rid of it. No filters or water treatment known to get rid of it once it gets into water. Yet our government insists it is used as part of our federal emissions standards as a fuel additive. This is just one example, and a very nasty one to boot. DEF fluid is now required to be added to all diesels. This is just another chemical that is being delivered to our air for the sake of emissions. Now I ask you, have they really cleaned the air or have they just found a way to make pollution invisible.
Are electric cars really environmentally sound, or even the California favorite Toyota Prius? I think not. If an electric car had solar panels it might be greener, but it certainly isn't when it has to be plugged into a wall socket and get it's power off the grid like everything else. Lithium batteries certainly are used in all of them and being mined in a 3rd world country that could care less about the environment certainly aren't helping them be "green" . Not to mention the disposal of said lithium cells when they go bad. All the plastics are still made from petroleum products as well with more plastics being used all the time.
We could be running solar electric vehicles, diesel electrics that get well over 100 mpg or even hydrogen vehicles. We have the technology, however there is no profit in making dependable, truly efficient and greener vehicles. And how many vehicles are on the road today compared to say 1970?
How about that electricity we use today? Hydroelectric and coal burning are today obsolete. Still necessary to some extent but the grids could be updated with solar and hydrogen methods that would be more efficient and greener. They say solar is too expensive. What they really are saying is there is no profit in solar. Nobody makes long term profit from energy that is self sufficient and basically free from maintenance. If they really wanted to be green they would advance solar technology like computer cpu's and figure out a nanometer process to produce highly efficient solar cells. Then you would only have to install them on the existing rooftops all over the country, especially anyplace in the southwest, and truly green power could be had for most of the world. Granted you would need some other power source when storms are around, but that is where hydrogen comes into play.
I'm sorry, this has been a long rant. But we the people need to quit being sheeple. We are all being manipulated and have been for a long time. This world will continue getting worse before it ever gets better. We as people need to modify how we live and how we treat other people and our environment. Until people as a whole unit start giving a crap about anything other than themselves, especially the people with money and power, we are all doomed to be flushed like a tird down the toilet.
I could go on and on about this, but it won't help. Our government will continue to lie and do what suits them, not we the people. Until people somehow stop being greedy and actually go back to caring about others, we will continue on our down stream spiral. This is really the longest and slowest toilet flush of our lives, living in the current state of affairs. Dennis
In this country ? On this planet? A Federal presence is required?
BOY I NEED A COUPLE OF THESE!!
