When I first started blogging I had in mind to do a weekly bit on the environment. I even got as far as giving it the catchy (to my ear anyway) title of Enemies of the Environment. Just jumps out and grabs you, doesn’t it?
I would pick some business or product to write about each week and point out all the ways it was harmful to health of the planet. After two weeks of this, it dawned on me that everything I was going to write about had one key element in common. It’s obvious, isn’t it? I mean, if George Bush can spot it why couldn’t I?
Oh well, as Hunter S. Thompson used to say iabout Hubert Humphrey: “Even a blind pig will find an acorn once in a while” So it is with our George. As he so succinctly admitted a week or so ago, humans cause pollution.
What’s the use of itemizing all the different ways in which we pollute the world if we’re not willing to step up and admit that, without us around, there would be none of the current worries about global warming, water pollution, air pollution, deforestation, loss of animal habitat and so on. Every single environmental problem on the face of the earth can easily be linked back to something we’ve done or are doing.
Sure, there have been attempts to deflect the blame to others. Ronald Regan referred to fallen leaves as pollutants. Since he also considered ketchup and relish to be vegetables, he’s probably not the most reliable of sources. But when you come right down to it, who else is there?
Who else pours goodness knows how many tons of carbon dioxide into the air from internal combustion engines, coal burning electrical plants, and the smokestacks of thousands of businesses world wide? Who else dumps massive amounts of raw sewage, chemicals, insecticides, fertilizers, and whatever else on hand into the rivers and oceans?
Is there any other creature on the face of the earth who wantonly destroys whole forests to create grazing land for a fast food company’s cattle? Does anybody know of one other species who will poison their own food supply by feeding herbivores growth hormones the brains of another animal?
What kind of a species are we that we think nothing of a company spending millions of dollars to invent pills that will make it easier for men to get an erection and women to increase their fertility when our population has become so huge that we are running out of room to put them all? Even our self-culling projects like war and genocide can’t keep up with our rate of reproduction.
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Article comments
1 - Marcia L. Neil
Actually, it is vital to comprehend just what the word 'global' encompasses.
In the late 1960s - early 1970s, a set of historical plant-life images was transmitted into mental common-consciousness, pooled, and used to establish an 'interest' in very specific locations throughout the planet using military armed forces re-connaissance. Because very specific locations have been 'discovered' and claimed, with accompanying human cultural activity, the health of the environment as a whole has changed without much public explanation.