Ok, I know this isn’t going to surprise many people, but, I felt the need to include this little gem in my blog. My past posts have clearly indicated my passion for habitat conservation. This is a subject that all of us have to face and understand. We in the U.S. now number over 300 million. This relates to a big piece of the our economy, real estate. We all have to have someplace to live, someplace to buy our food and clothes, someplace for our children to attend school. Most people who have been around for a while have personally watched their neighborhood and surroundings transform under the hands of developers. There are a lot fewer open fields and woods for us to walk in, and for our kids to play in. This of course, will never stop. Why should it? As long as developers stand to make money and we have no policy for conservation, every last bit of open space will be built upon or paved over. It is a logical conclusion. How much would we like to have left over in the end, if anything at all? I am afraid that with each successive generation in America, we become more and more removed from nature and those beings that need a wild habitat in which to survive.

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Scientists have been reporting for years what tends to happen to our waterways when excess amounts of fertilizer and sewage are allowed to be released into the environment. It tends to significantly reduce the amount of oxygen in the water, and this kills fish and crabs and other underwater beings that need oxygen to survive. Think of the mouth of the Mississippi as the end of a giant waste pipe and you can understand why a huge dead zone has formed at its termination point in the Gulf of Mexico.

• Gulf Dead Zone

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Don’t think that pollution laws have taken a trip in the way-back machine? Well, then you haven’t been paying attention to the “trend” since the Bush administration has enacted their vision of an uninhibited industry “self-managing” their pollution on the honor system. Seriously, mwa hah hah. The honor system. Who would ever be so gullible? I, having lived in Pittsburgh in the 1970s, am not. BP wants to put even more pollution into Lake Michigan.

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