I tried to honor my brother Bill who died of Asbestos cancer by trying to correct a present day wrong. A half century ago authorities knew it was wrong to use Asbestos but many still did. Today many are still dying horrible deaths like my brother did because leaders ignored the warnings about Asbestos back then.
Today we know it is wrong for a community to pollute their waterways and then ignore the pollution.
So, for the past four years I tried to get city, county, state and federal leaders, environmental groups, the media, and property owners to get the Mobile Community's trash removed from a 1/4 mile long waterway that indirectly connects to Mobile Bay. Four years later and no one has begun to remove the trash from that waterway yet. Talk about irresponsible leadership.
Sorry Brother Bill. Communities like Mobile are more interested in spending money for soccer fields made with rubber crumbs and wasting money on venues that lose money each year rather than removing their Community's trash from their polluted waterways. Ignoring obvious pollution should be a crime. ADEM and the US EPA have proven they are incapable of dealing with simple solid waste pollution problems. Government is broken morally and financially.
What will be the consequence 50 years from now to the young people of today because this sorry ass generation ignored the widespread pollution of the Earth's waters with the endocrine disruptors in plastics, light bulbs, solvents in paints and aerosol cans, and other trash found in Municipal Storm Water Trash (MS4) Pollution.
Endocrine disruptors can increase production of certain hormones; decrease production of others; imitate hormones; turn one hormone into another; interfer with hormone signaling; tell cells to die prematurely; compete with essential nutrients; bind to essential hormones; and accumulate in organs.
In this generation with men growing tits and women growing facial hair, obesity now being the norm, one might think the hormones in humans are screwed up. Duh! Now there are some Men trying to be Women and some Women that are trying to be Men. Marriage to the same sex is now acceptable in America. Yikes. Something is obviously disrupting the hormones in the human species, at least in America. What might be in our water? BPA, Phthalates? PBDEs? Lead? Mercury? Glycol Ethers?
Endocrine disruptor type trash can be found rotting in Mobile waterways because leaders and Environmental agencies and groups are CHOOSING to ignore MS4 storm water trash pollution despite the complaints and scientific warnings.
Waterways which could be beautiful tourist attractions are used as ugly garbage chutes by the Mobile community. That is fucked up.
Thank you Environmental and Mobile and Alabama leaders for your dedication to destroying the Earth's once clean waterway environments.
Ignoring the pollution of our waterways will only lead to more weeping and gnashing of teeth as growing Cancer rates prematurely destroys more human lives.
I can see why there is increasing frustration with Government. Government no longer represents the People. It represents Corporations and Criminals. It was said best in the Godfather movie. "Politics and Crime - they are the same."
I am done trying to make the City of Mobile a better place to live. Let the trashy shit hole cities of the south like Mobile, Prichard, and Bayou La Batre continue on their down their road to ruin.
http://www.ewg.org/research/dirty-dozen-list-endocrine-disruptors