Right now, Florida’s waterways are flooded with at least three different types of toxic algae and seaweed. Literal thousands of dead animals are piling up on the beaches, and at least fifteen people have been sent to the hospital with respiratory distress. This isn’t the first year we’ve been dealing with this, but it’s gotten notably worse and is only going to get even more worse from here.
This problem could be handled and cleaned up of it weren’t for the fact that our Governor, Rick Scott, cares more about his political sway and corporate goons than our waterways. The runoff getting dumped into the water is creating a thriving environment for these toxic algae species, and policy to help curtail the waste is repeatedly being blocked by politicians.
Here are a bunch of sources if you want to know more, but be warned that many of them contain pictures of dead wildlife.
GOD AND IT SMELLS LIKE SHIT TOO. LIKE THERES ROTTING ASS GARBAGE STINK IN THE AIR EVEN INLAND FROM THE BEACHES
like literally nobody can even go to siesta “america’s #1 beach” key anymore without being hospitalized from respiratory problems or seeing dozens of dead marine animals washed up
fuck the gop and their shitty pollution enabling policies i hope they all keel over and die
Really, the galling thing about the golf industry is that it doesn’t need to be nearly as environmentally destructive as it is. In most parts of the world you can construct a totally acceptable golf course using native grasses, trees and shrubs, leaving the only the greens – which are a tiny portion of the course’s overall land area – as the high-maintenance bits. The only reason we insist on importing non-native grasses to climates for which they’re wildly unsuited and blowing a million gallons of water per course per week keeping them alive is because somebody decided that all golf courses everywhere need to look exactly the same.
california anti-drought measures are always like “take shorter showers! consider brushing your teeth with the sink turned off” and never mention the fact that nestle is bottling all of our fucking water and selling it to people who live in areas with plenty of water
It’s like the Irish potato “famine” I stg
In California, residential use only accounts for 4% of total water use. Industrial use is 80%.
This is true of any resource. Yes turning your lights off will save you a but of money. But industry wastes far more electricity than you. Yes recycling your garbage is good. But companies, like the retail chain i work at produce far more garbage than you ever could and do not recycle it at all.
Turning natural resource and environmental crises into individual responsibility is form of class warfare so fucking insidious
Honestly just burn every company to the ground or cut them off from electricity and water systems
Tax them heavily for their usage Make recycling mandatory or theyre fined Oh im sorry am i stepping all over your precious free market I hope to choke it out
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“Part of the problem is that we’ve been victims of a campaign of systematic misdirection. Consumer culture and the capitalist mindset have taught us to substitute acts of personal consumption (or enlightenment) for organized political resistance. An Inconvenient Truth helped raise consciousness about global warming. But did you notice that all of the solutions presented had to do with personal consumption—changing light bulbs, inflating tires, driving half as much—and had nothing to do with shifting power away from corporations, or stopping the growth economy that is destroying the planet?
Or let’s talk water. We so often hear that the world is running out of water. People are dying from lack of water. Rivers are dewatered from lack of water. Because of this we need to take shorter showers. See the disconnect? Because I take showers, I’m responsible for drawing down aquifers? Well, no. More than 90 percent of the water used by humans is used by agriculture and industry. The remaining 10 percent is split between municipalities and actual living breathing individual humans….People (both human people and fish people) aren’t dying because the world is running out of water. They’re dying because the water is being stolen.” – Derrick Jensen (author & environmentalist)
Fun fact, hammering metal spikes into tree trunks is a federal crime in the US because environmental activists used to do it in the 80s to fuck up chainsaws and logging equipment.
So you should never use this effective strategy for disrupting logging operations because it is illegal.
everything in the world is problematic. u guys are problematic cus u exist. ur contaminating the planet cus u simply exist !!! ur killing everyone. & ur making other species go extinct!
Tea
This idiot news just said “that’s amazing” to a two second story about the garbage patch in the Pacific.. no, dumbass, it’s DISGUSTING and it’s killing animals. We should be cleaning it up and stopping the damn problem in the source
ifesbob 