Pollution Probe

Back in the day, Pollution Probe, of Toronto supplied me with a map of sites around the Great Lakes that have suffered ecological disaster. The wealthy class has wreaked untold havoc upon the face of the planet. That is what they do. Pushing the costs off to the public sector is what they do best. As a child, doctors recognized what they called "Green Bay Throat", especially in children from the poorer areas of town (where the pollution was the worst) I was hospitalized or seen by doctors for the "illness" more than twenty times in the ten years I lived near the Fox River, which later became a Superfund site. However, the diagnosis remained eerily off the record. Perhaps that is why they make you strip before they examine you, so you can't hide a recording device in your pocket! In hundreds of cities and towns, perhaps everywhere, but to be true, I am most concerned about the Great Lakes Region, these same sorts of toxic pollution problems exist.

Frackingis the new threat, the one whose toxic legacy has been pushed beyond our ability to measure or comprehend. In the earliest days of the nuclear age, there were those among us who understood and taught others that the toxic legacy that would be created by an expanding nuclear industry would leave a legacy that will cost us "safe storage" for tens of thousands of years. what is the true cost of an electron today when the cost of it lasts hundreds of generations? We need to be asking ourselves what the value of a BTU today when the waters, the soils and the planet will remain contaminated forever. We have seen the results of allowing the ultra-wealthy to continue to receive their corporate welfare, getting a wink and a nod from regulators, doctors, paramedics and a pass from local law enforcement. Has there ever been a question that local governments and regulators routinely risk public health for profit? Collusion is planning to help in perpetrating a crime. If you believe that you do not live in an area that will forever be tainted by pollution, perhaps you have not been paying attention. CO2 pollution is worldwide, nuclear fallout is worldwide. Aldrin and Dieldren are trademarked carcinogens that have been found in the most remote lakes on the planet, wafted in by the circulating atmosphere. Carcinogens, mutagens and teratogens need to be treated as weapons that have been used against our people. Otherwise, this becomes the most heinous aspect of corporate welfare. We cannot be expected to pay the price for the profit of others. The Superfund sites that are especially harmful will cost near infinite amounts of money to clean up (if it is even possible). Think of the billions spent on cancer treatment and research. To be fair, the companies who spew their chemicals into our air, pump it into deep wells or taint the land with their waste, need to be held responsible for the errors of their ways.

If I threw a rock, and it went through someones window, I would be made to pay. If a company exposes me to carcinogens, mutagens or teratogens, they should pay for the damage they have done, end of story.