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.

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Andrea Dietrich

Date: 9/10/2015 12:04:00 AM

You have such eloquence even in the writing of a limerick because you write with passion and truth!

Duke Beaufort
Date: 9/10/2015 6:32:00 AM

Thank-you for this kind comment. I often try to write about what is bothering me, and one of those things is the destruction of our beautiful planet. It saddens me terribly.

Theresa Cw

Date: 8/23/2015 12:58:00 AM

Very good point, Duke that goes on more places that anyone knows. Especially up in Fort MacMurray, Alberta Canada. But do these big conglomerates give a hoot? Nice read and quite informative.

Duke Beaufort
Date: 9/6/2015 4:01:00 PM

Theresa, I am sorry I took a while to respond. I am suffering from jet lag. Anyhow, you are absolutely right. The warning signs are everywhere, but not many people are looking or paying attention. That is why I and others keep talking about this. There is a basic flaw in our education and thinking.

Debbie Duncan

Date: 8/14/2015 3:47:00 AM

I just heard on news in Sacramento, Calif. How they found very high levels of contaminates in drinking water & another story about sweage pipe is leaking into the drinking water& people have to buy bottled water till it's fix. And is anyone going to get fined for letting it go on 4 so long.

Duke Beaufort
Date: 8/14/2015 8:13:00 PM

As we know, this is the tip of the iceberg. The next big bubble in our future is the environment bubble. When that busts, watch out!! Entities have been getting away with dumping for quite some time, but the bill eventually has to be paid.