Chemical contamination of the water supply in West Virginia indicates how badly the lives of people can be affected when their water supply is cut off, as well as how bad it is for the economy. In the coming years, water issues may well become critically important as the population increases, aquifers are depleted and contamination is widespread. In the northeast, vast areas of several states may have contaminated water from hydro fracking with several toxic chemicals used to extract natural gas from rock formations. Until now, we have taken safe, clean water for granted--but crises like those in West Virginia may signal that we need to re-think how we approach the whole issue of ensuring pure water supplies for the future.
OK, let me be clear
The problem vic is in how you present. I shouldn't react but I DO, because my entire worldview is different than yours. Your post is couched in inflammatory terms, "rhetoric" in my world, and culminates with a sentence so full of dreck I just can't leave it lie.
I'm sorry, but I live by this motto.......
"All that is necessary for evil to prevail is that good men do nothing"
So, in that light I'll address your culminating statement only
Until now, we have taken safe, clean water for granted--but crises like those in West Virginia may signal that we need to re-think how we approach the whole issue of ensuring pure water supplies for the future.
This is just utter crap, false in it's face, ignorant and an unwitting jab at our forebears. I realize that it's inadvertent. I state this clearly in my usage of "unwitting." Unfortunately the road to hell is paved with "unwitting." READ A LITTLE vic, and not just the pap fed you by your party but HISTORY, unbiased HISTORY..... we have not "taken our water supply for granted"..... ever..... We've worked hard as a nation, paid a huge price and are still paying ALL OVER THE WORLD that people may have access to safe drinking water. For you to write this effort off in so cavalier a fashion with verbiage like "until now" and "rethink" is an insult to the very people who've given you the lifestyle you enjoy.
The incident in WVA is a blip, a bump in the road, a page in the ongoing journal.
Show a little respect for your betters.
And until you offer an alternative, ANY real alternative, please quit beating the drum against fossil fuels.
Or quit driving.
You
man up and stop driving, stop heating your home and living in the luxury offered by fossil fuels and I'll back out and bow to you. I'll publicly acknowledge that you are a Man Of Principle in the mold of those great men who founded this nation and that I admire your ethic. Until then, gobbling on about the negative aspects of our fuel-based economy is just whining.
IMO
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