Just a generally disturbing Sunday Evening happening; my dog brought my attention to a gas cap in his bedding……
Here’s me thinking he was hungry. It didn’t come off of any of our vehicles is the thing. So where did it come from? It means he picked it up in the yard most likely, there’s a bit of buried junk back there. Little stuff people forget, and I repeat my lament; this state is so polluted.
It’s just cummulative, I know a little thing like a gas cap doesn’t seem like it is harmful, but it is and it all makes it worse, especially this being technically wetlands.
I don’t like how the Southern states approach conservation. There’s just no regard for water safety and preservation. This is a public health demonstration of what not to do for long term health. I guess they reason that upper middle class and up will drink filtered water, or that municiple sources will improve filtering of plastic residue as it becomes a health risk.
The issue really is that microplastics cause such a wide array of issues. So public health authorities can’t afford to ignore it. Yet they do. Hey, upshot, they’ll kill us first. I joke, I think, I don’t know really. My most extensive training is in Psychology, not microplastics. I did learn enough about water filtration while learning to sell and understand them that the volumes being discussed are a serious threat. Upshot of my wacky work history, wide array of odd skills.
Anyway I was reading an article about how the Great Lakes were getting even cleaner, and how they planned to preserve their watershed and it made me want to live up there. I guess I’d probably feel a bit watched and hemmed in, but at that cost safety I’d learn to be okay with it.
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Yes, there are microplastics in our water, food AND in our bodies. There are studies showing that there’s microplastics in mother’s breastmilk, and there’s no human alive does NOT have microplastics or Monsanto’s pesticides in our blood. You’d have to go back to pre WW2 to get the last people who did NOT have these in their bodies.
And yes, we are f*cked.
Yep I lived in the rural south and the pollution was crazy, like everyone was dumping whatever chemicals anywhere. Full on ignorance. Full on simple minded dumbass “what I can’t see can’t hurt me” ignorance. And the worst part is if you try to spearhead a movement to clean the place up, regulate dumping & corporate pollution of rivers, they’ll call you a crazy leftist and probably shoot you dead. For cleaning their own land.
It isn’t a matter of left vs right, it’s just common sense: don’t shit in the well. But politicians turn it into left vs right. So they can sell more coal smh
What’s interesting is if you can make your way to the coastal areas (in my experience I’m talking about coastal Carolinas) you’ll find communities that keep themselves clean, that prioritize conservation. But these communities are small, generally upper middle class people since land values are high.
Maybe that’s the underlying problem everywhere. Nobody cares about their land until it’s worth something.