"I think that most of us would agree that everyone has a right to clean drinking water. For more than a century we have known that the lead in pipes is dangerous especially to children. After a century we have not done enough about it. Could it be that it is more of an inner-city problem than a problem in suburban America? Could it be that it is a bigger problem in older and poorer cities like Flint Michigan so the average middle class person does not care? Could it be because we haven’t done enough to clean up our aging water treatment facilities? Could it be that for years our water infrastructure has been ignored just like many of our inner-city problem because we have turned our backs on the poor? Could it be because the rich could care less if the poor live or die? Maybe all of the above and more? The Biden Administration has stepped up to the plate on this one and it is a good thing because both parties are guilty on this front.
After all we know about water pollution and how we have to protect our wetlands along comes Trump and rolls back decades of clean water protection. Why? To make it easier on businesses and farmers not to comply with existing Federal guidelines. The Clean Water Act was put there to make it harder to pollute. It is not suppose to be a business-friendly Act. Business shouldn’t be able to put profit over life and the environment. The Gulf of Mexico has a dead zone of over 6000 sq. miles. Most of that is man-made from runoff from cities and agriculture. These dead zones are also starting to show up in other parts like the Pacific Northwest. All life begins with our oceans and we need to protect them from greed and from a lack of caring. We need to protect them from ourselves. Trump's record in the environment and climate change was not a good one that is for sure.
When I first moved to Florida a couple of years ago we were in the midst of a perfect storm. Water was being released from Lake Okeechobee causing a Green Algae bloom while the Red Tide was happening. The results were hundreds of thousands or even maybe millions of marine life dead. I saw it with my own eyes in Pine Island Sound. Things were so bad that people with respiratory problems were encouraged to wear masks. The death of all the marine life was enough to bring me to tears. If we are going to survive we need to do a better job.
The other day as I was returning to the Marina where I keep my boat and a boat flying a Trump flag was just going out. Boats flying Trump flags are still very common here in Florida. What struck me funny about the Trump flag he was flying said “Don’t Blame Me. I Voted For Trump”. Here was a man enjoying the waters and praising a man that would destroy our waters for-profit and complaining about a man, Biden that is trying to help save them. We are our own worst enemy."
After all we know about water pollution and how we have to protect our wetlands along comes Trump and rolls back decades of clean water protection. Why? To make it easier on businesses and farmers not to comply with existing Federal guidelines. The Clean Water Act was put there to make it harder to pollute. It is not suppose to be a business-friendly Act. Business shouldn’t be able to put profit over life and the environment. The Gulf of Mexico has a dead zone of over 6000 sq. miles. Most of that is man-made from runoff from cities and agriculture. These dead zones are also starting to show up in other parts like the Pacific Northwest. All life begins with our oceans and we need to protect them from greed and from a lack of caring. We need to protect them from ourselves. Trump's record in the environment and climate change was not a good one that is for sure.
When I first moved to Florida a couple of years ago we were in the midst of a perfect storm. Water was being released from Lake Okeechobee causing a Green Algae bloom while the Red Tide was happening. The results were hundreds of thousands or even maybe millions of marine life dead. I saw it with my own eyes in Pine Island Sound. Things were so bad that people with respiratory problems were encouraged to wear masks. The death of all the marine life was enough to bring me to tears. If we are going to survive we need to do a better job.
The other day as I was returning to the Marina where I keep my boat and a boat flying a Trump flag was just going out. Boats flying Trump flags are still very common here in Florida. What struck me funny about the Trump flag he was flying said “Don’t Blame Me. I Voted For Trump”. Here was a man enjoying the waters and praising a man that would destroy our waters for-profit and complaining about a man, Biden that is trying to help save them. We are our own worst enemy."
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