Cape Karen

Polluting the Mississippi River

Have you noticed the color of the water being pumped-out of New Orleans into Lake Ponchartrain, which then flows into the Mississippi River?

That's gonna be one ugly polluted lake... and, poor Old Man River!

I don't think I'll be eating any shrimp real soon, that's for sure. And, not because the LA and MS shrimp boats are all in splinters, but because this toxic sludge has to eventually affect some of the sea life.

We all know they are pumping out fecal matter, oil spills, gasoline, decaying human remains, e-coli bacteria and thousands of other organisms ~ including those that cause chloera.

But why are they doing this? One big rainstorm and the area will be re-flooded. One more hurricane and they'll be right back where they started. It reminds me of the story of Peter putting his finger into the dike. And, not a peep out of the EPA about this "solution" either. (I guess Bush warned them to keep their mouths shut again.)

Perhaps, before they pumped all the toxic sludge out into a major national waterway, they should have dropped billions of tons of bleach into it. I mean, for gawd's sake, this crap is eating automobiles before our very eyes. I can only imagine what it will do to the fish, shrimp, and other wildlife.

First, we don't think before we act, and then we don't act, and then we act without using any common sense at all. We're either too slow or too fast. This remedy to the flooding is showing me that the powers that be in this country are just beyond stupid.

It doesn't take an Einstein to know that this is just the beginning of more ecological destruction.

Stay tuned.

Posted by Karen at September 8, 2005 12:49 PM