The Root Cause
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Please check out what happened to the Animus River in Colorado. The first part of the story is that the EPA and its contractors made an error, and a torrent of arsenic, cadmium and lead in millions of gallons of waste water from a closed mine flowed into the river (8/5/15). However, who put all that stuff there in the first place and never cleaned it up? It was a mining company. They extracted gold for their customers and ran off with the profits while leaving us with the cleaning bill. These are the "negative externalities" corporations would rather not have on the balance sheet. And now, our river "bed" is all laced for us...
EPA is not the fellow
Who made the Animus yellow
All that toxic waste
For mine profits has laced
Our bed which becomes a bordello*
"we are being screwed (I would be more blunt but certain curse words are not allowed here). This happens all the time.
Also, if any of this bothers you, check out Bernie Sanders on youtube. I came up with a great campaign slogan: Bernie Sanders doesn't BS you.
Copyright © Duke Beaufort | Year Posted 2015
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