03/16/2024
12 million tons of commercial fishing netting and rope is left in the oceans EVERY YEAR, causing needless death to many marine life. I just watched a humpback whale die (on a National Geographic documentary called Incredible Animal Journey's episode 1), because of the rope being tied around her tongue, disabling her from eating and thus causing weakness until she didn't have the strength to get to surface to breathe.
The governments all over the world are pushing climate change and our carbon footprint, yet the governments fail to have safety precautions on the industries that have crippled our delicate ecosystems; water, air and land.
We have the many Mills (paper mills and other forms of industry), around the Great Lakes in Canada and the United States, that have been in operation for approximately 100 years.
*The Great Lakes Paper Company opened in Thunder Bay, Ontario in 1924. I know many people that have worked there and told me of watching industrial waste going into the Kaministiqua River, and from there a very short distance to Lake Superior.
Industrial waste discharges happens all over the world and yet governments have allowed for this to happen. WHY?
On the shores of Lake Superior where the City of Thunder Bay is located, there are many empty grain elevators, Saw mills and Paper Mills. None of these places have been made to take responsibility, nor acknowledge, the pollution that knowingly caused toxicity to the water and land. So many of them sit empty, never taking responsibility for the teardown of their buildings. The tax payers pay for that.. Make any sense?
I wonder how it was ever allowed, for companies that create pressboard, considering how toxic the process is, and how terrible for the environment when the pressboard is taken to the dump. Pressboard will not breakdown completely because of the chemicals used.
How long in the future until the chemicals in our landfills fully break down? The answer is, some will never break down. Plastic, for instance, will never break down. It just keeps breaking apart into smaller and smaller pieces - but if you put those pieces back together, they will make up the whole. Plastics will never break down into nothing...
This is what the governments have allowed to happen to our planet, to all creatures living on the earth as well as inside it, and in the waters.
Is that REALLY a system that cared for the planet.. and its inhabitants?
Why are we, the People, allowing this? Maybe we thought we couldn't make a difference by speaking out. But.. the more we talk about it, the more people will know about it, and then WE get to decide if we will continue going along with this.
Is a toxic world one in which you want your future generations to live in? We know where we are now, and we know it only took 200 years to get where we are now. Government will tell you this is progress. To me, progress is when the land, air and waters are in stasis. If the above is healthy, all inhabitants are healthy. Should that not be our goal, to the best of our ability?
If this toxic practice continues, think what we leave future generations.
WE GET TO DECIDE what we go along with...
