Sunday, February 22, 2009

Toxins and You!

I am personally very concerned with all of the toxins in our environment. From the petro-chemicals used to make stain-resistant fabric to our water supply being saturated with pharmaceuticals, the sad truth is theres no where to run. Our environment and our planet for that matter has become an ever growing toxic dump. My solution is simple. We can use technology today to prevent the accumulation of all of these toxins to begin with. If we aren't making toxins anymore we wont have to worry about them in the future. In addition, we have more then enough technology and resources to also properly cleanup all of the existing and past toxic sites the world round; if all nations were to cooperate to do so.
So why then if we have the technology and resources to do this do we choose not to? We don't do any thing about it because theres no money to made in doing it. Money is at the heart of this problem. Until our monetary system is addressed I'm afraid that toxins in the environment and the environment itself for that matter will remain a low priority in our world, as long as our monetary system remains a higher one.

1 comment:

  1. I'm glad you address the money issue involved in environmental clean up and protection. Before I started to read your blog I was thinking to myself, "only our species wasn't so concerned about itself, the economy and our personal needs and services, then we might be able to see the real problems." The money aspect to clean up toxic sites and polluted area's of the environment is a key point. As our culture perceives it, economics is far more important than the environment that we inhabit which sustains our way of life. We have become too driven by dollar signs to even stop to think that if not for a healthy, clean and diverse environment, then economics is worth less than one single atom. Also our current environmental policies are so bias towards human interests there is simply no way we can actually clean up and take care of the environment in a selfless and caring way.

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