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So what will it be? A wholesale change in the way farming is done in the Lake Erie basin, possibly leading to a national or even international trend? Or bottled and boiled water for the long haul while the environment gets ever worse?
There are select lakes, for example in Minnesota, where the EPA has applied especially tough phosphorous standards on sewage treatment and eutrophication and the resulting algae blooms has been successfully reversed. But nothing on the scale of a Great Lake, and nothing that I know of on farm runoff.
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Well, this is what happens when you shit in your own dinner bowlâŚ
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Gee, maybe itâs in our enlightened self-interest to protect the health of the air and water and not describe every effort to do so as âjob-killing.â I donât think having an entire major city with hundreds of thousands of people without water is especially good for the economy in general or corporate profits in particular. In the meantime, sheeshâwhat are those people going to do? Microcystin is nasty stuff.
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Kasich should go all âRick Perryâ and schedule a ginormous
prayer meeting at Cleveland Stadium to pray away the algae.
Thereâs got to be a way to shut this science-y thing down.
jw1
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âVoter-killerâ
Thatâs got to generate a tad more of the fear factor than âjob-killerâ â no?
jw1
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The ENVIRONMENT is NOT FREE GOODS!
âI think this is a wake-up call,â U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, said
after meeting with an array of officials to discuss the emergency
response Saturday afternoon. âWe do have a problem with these toxic
algal bloomsâ
http://www.post-gazette.com/news/nation/2014/08/02/Algae-blooms-in-Lake-Erie-contaminate-water-in-Ohio-and-Michigan/stories/201408030173
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Rob Portmanâs environmental voting record: 2013 - 8%; life time - 22%
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Conclusion: Typical Republican hypocrite and poseur. People get what they vote for. Ohioans want a solution to this problem? Stop electing asshole GOTPers like Portman and Kasich who sell their souls to big polluters.
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Stop and consider the vast web of inter-relationships our modern way of life depends upon and takes for granted. We assume there will always be potable water. That the electrical grids will not collapse. That the dns servers will always resolve our URLs. That we can always find food in the grocery store. That most of us can find, and keep a job. That there will always be fish in the sea. Then stop and consider the fragile foundations that most of these assumptions rest on. Welcome to Modern Times. Fasten your seat belts. Itâs going to be a bumpy ride. The property insurers will be the first to abandon their business model. If you canât get home owners insurance, how are you going to get a mortgage?
If you donât have potable water, how are you going to sell your house and move somewhere that does?
So many fragile links to the chain that is modern civilization.
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In an ideal world, yeah, Iâd think it would. (Sigh.)
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Then there is John Boehner. He doesnât strike me as someone who is terribly interested in the heavy lifting required to guarantee clean water, clean air, and food and worker safety. Heâs too busy catering to the Koch bros, chairmen of the pollute America now, club.
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Cyanobacteria blooms are on the rise, and they are a global problem, together with the red tides that occur in salt water. These are effects of global warming that havenât much been discussed in the media, although environmental science has been sounding the alarm for years. Yes, this is a serious threat to our drinking supplies, because it isnât a question of just boiling the water to make it safe. The water is poison. Our drinking water is vulnerable, and so far I havenât heard of any plan to make it safe.
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There is beginning to be speculation on the coming âWater Warsâ in affected parts of the globe.
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There is no question. It should no longer be considered speculation. It was cited in the Pentagon analysis of future threatsâand frankly, there has been very little discussion of the amount of water required by the fracking process that releases natural gas, or the amount of water required to produce dirty oil from shale or tar sands. To use fresh water for those purposes should frankly, be criminal, and yet, there is so much money to be made by paying for it with the âfreeâ water that is a public resource, after all, that no legislator will get in the way of it. Cassandra tried to warn Troy, remember, but they thought she was insane.
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Future generations will look back on this time and wonder how we could have been so willfully stupid. Detroit and Toledo are only the first cities to fail their populations.
Our faith-based economic model is dust and praying for a savior only insures more denial.
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But, but, but, why would God let micro-organisms poison our water supply? To which I say: donât they have a âright to lifeâ, too? Are they also not created in the image of God? HmmmmâŚ
Sure makes a compelling argument for eliminating the EPA. (Yeah, Iâm looking at you, Republicans.)
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Coming soon to your neighborhood:
A Preview of WaterWar One.
Brought to you by decimation of EPA and
Climate Change.
Maybe Kadish the Corrupt should send armed Goopers to Lake Eerrie and scare it clear?
If not, the overpaid underperformers can bait and switch Blame Barry, yet again. Theyâll get the votes in November.
Gee it really is the water.
The answer is obvious: cut taxes on corporations and rich people. If that doesnât also increase revenue, theyâll just have to raise sales taxes.
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Quantum of Solace? It will be Obamaâs fault by tomorrow morning over at Fox.
So, one cannot ignite the water these day, but it still isnât drinkable.