When the
Hudson River caught on fire; that was the last straw. Americans had questioned ‘ocean dumping’ and
other practices that fouled the water.
Los Angeles smog allowed the US to question air our quality. The mistake we made was to create the EPA
under the federal government. We should
have had the States set up their own EPDs.
The “pile-on” has been stunning ever since.
Current
EPA regulations would now criminalize farming because of (dust) and carbon
dioxide (plant food). Government is seizing farmland like it seized timberland
to protect “endangered species” that don’t exist on that land or don’t matter,
like the snail darter. It only seizes land occupied by private small
businesses, not ConAgra, because they have friends in the government.
The
government has tied up one third of the US landmass to “protect it”. The
government fails clear the underbrush on the timberland, like a land owner
would do. That’s why most of our forests
burn down every summer when lightning strikes the timberland.
The
global warming hoax gave rise to the carbon capture scam, because the UN wanted
to crash the US economy and establish itself as our “one-world communist
dictatorship”.
Thanks to
Obama’s war on coal, US electric rates are now 31% higher than they were in
2008. The current cost of electricity
from coal is up to 4 cents per kwh, but the cost of wind and solar are both 26
cents per kwh plus a 4 cent federal subsidy. If coal plants continue to be
closed, our electric rates will rise another 50% very soon.
Americans
were slow to provide clean drinking water and sanitation until the industrial
revolution brought millions to the cities. See below:
History
of Water Treatment - Wikipedia
In the 19th century numerous American
cities were afflicted with major outbreaks of disease, including cholera in 1832, 1849 and 1866 and typhoid in 1848.[17] The fast-growing cities did not have
sewers and relied on contaminated wells within the city confines for drinking
water supply. In the mid-19th century many cities built centralized water
supply systems. However, initially these systems provided raw river water
without any treatment.
Only after John Snow established the link between
contaminated water and disease in 1854 and after authorities became gradually
convinced of that link, water treatment plants were added and public health
improved. Sewers were built since the 1850s, initially based on the erroneous
belief that bad air (miasma theory)
caused cholera and typhoid. It took until the 1890s for the now universally
accepted germ theory of
disease to
prevail.
However, most wastewater was still discharged without any
treatment, because wastewater was not believed to be harmful to receiving
waters due to the natural dilution and self-purifying capacity of rivers, lakes
and the sea.
Wastewater treatment only became widespread after the
introduction of federal funding in 1948 and especially after an increase in
environmental consciousness and the upscaling of financing in the 1970s. For
decades federal funding for water supply and sanitation
was provided through grants to local governments. After 1987 the system was
changed to loans through revolving funds.
The lead
pipe problem in Flint Michigan is a leftover from the earlier work to clean up
drinking water in 1948. The local
government knew there was a problem, but didn’t want to spend the money on
fixing it.
DeKalb and
Rio sewer leaks remind us that government is less interested in sanitation and
maintenance and more interested in bread and circuses.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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