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   MortyForTyrant said, 6 months ago

   Just like the Cuyahoga river. Randy Newman wrote a song about it. “The lord can make you tumble, the lord can make you turn, the lord can make you overflow, but the lord can’t make you burn. Burn on, big river, burn on”. It’s amazing what people will do to their environment…
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   masterskrain said, 6 months ago

   Sadly, to a lot of people, once something is outside their house, it is no longer in their “Environment”, and it’s someone else’s problem!
   Same thing applies to the brain-dead nitwits who throw their fast food containers out the car window.
   “Hey, it’s not in the car any longer, so it’s not in my environment!”
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   olfart said, 6 months ago

   @ masterskrain
   I live in one of the most beautiful spots on the planet. It may well be the most littered. People do exactly as you say. I police up their trash in front of my house every day. They make drunks clean the roadsides, why not litterbugs?
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   ScullyUFO said, 6 months ago

   @olfart

   “Liar as a child, thief as a man.” Littering is the most fundamental way of showing complete disrespect for our lifespace which we share with every other living thing. If we ever caught our children doing it, they would never do it again.
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   Justice22 said, 6 months ago

   “Pollution is just a left wing rumor like global warming.”
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   onguard said, 6 months ago

   @Justice22

   One is real, the Other is an Agenda. (human caused AGW)
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   walruscarver2000 said, 6 months ago

   DNFTT
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   Omnius said, 6 months ago

   Makes me so glad to live in California where we have a state government that does a good job of keeping our state clean. Well mostly, they did slack off and let Mitt the Twit pollute our state with his presence.
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   The Wolf In Your Midst said, 6 months ago

   Sometimes I wonder if the anti-regulatory crowd has an extra planet stashed away somewhere, where they can move once this one is completely uninhabitable. Or maybe they’ve just given up and think “I want to keep more of my money so my children can afford all the gas masks and water filters they’ll need once I’m dead and gone”.
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    masterskrain said, 6 months ago

    @The Wolf In Your Midst

    I seem to remember Dick (Dr. Evil) Cheney saying something about not worrying about environmental regulations, and climate change because he would be dead before there was too much difference in the environment.
    THAT’S the true anti-regulation (read G.O.P.) crowd’s feelings!
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    kato1979 said, 6 months ago

    Soon to be a wholly owned subsidiary of Koch Industries, inc.
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    lonecat said, 6 months ago

    @The Wolf In Your Midst

    Throwing stuff into garbage heaps is probably built into our genes. We’ve been doing it as long as we’ve been around. Archeologists love it — in my area, we look at the ancient trash heaps in Egypt to find Greek literature. There was a time when it didn’t matter too much — you could move to get away from the smell — but no longer. It’s a bad habit we’ve got to change.
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    Clark Kent said, 6 months ago

    ♫ ♪ Polution, polution, you can use the latest toothpaste
    Then rinse out your mouth with industrial waste ♪ ♫
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    furnituremaker said, 6 months ago

    In the 70’s in Charleston SC, you could pick oysters and eat
    ‘em raw. Now, you can’t even pick ’em.fishing the same
    way..practically. no fish to catch
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    ruff said, 6 months ago

    @Clark Kent

    “Don’t drink the water and don’t breathe the air”
    Tom Lehrer.
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