Ecological Disaster in Florida | Political Red Tide | Collapsologie | Why Everything Will Collapse

Erin Brockovich persuasively explains in Why You Should Care About The Ecological Disaster In Florida that the red tide and systemic destruction of the Everglades, the most biodiverse area of North America, is due to politics. “The most concerning issue for clean water in the United States today is not chemical, physical or financial, it’s politics. This is not the time to stand down; this is the time to fight. It’s time to inform, educate and inspire action across America so that our communities and leaders are armed with the strongest weapon in politics: facts, answers, truth, and solutions.”

It was as I dug that I uncovered another thorough presentation that lays out the facts.

Toxic Lake Untold Story of Lake Okeechobee Kait Parker

“Toxic Lake: The Untold Story of Lake Okeechobee” featuring Kait Parker of Weather.com

Lake Okeechobee drained south for 6,000 years, nourishing the everglades.

Phosphorous from Cattle and Dairy farms from the north and from fertilizers from massive Sugarcane runoff pumped rom the south

Florida State Of Emergency Toxic BlueGreen Algae KAYAK DIY

Erin Brockovich Why You Should Care About the Ecological Disaster in Florida

Florida declares a State of Emergency after a devastating toxic algae bloom plagues the Gulf Coast, killing tourism and wildlife.
I’m unapologetically including a politically incorrect comment to this preceding post, “Lake o, re-routing the natural flow of water in the everglades, the canals and the whole dang mess can be laid at the feet of sugar companies that have bought the politician. They’re ruining the everglades the coral reefs and turning Americans into fat diabetic pigs.”

dead sea turtle from Dailymail UK Florida state of emergency

It appears to be the theme in many cases throughout the world, due to corrupted values of politicians through the persuasive power of money.

Greenpeace Amazon Rainforest destruction Politicians are reducing protected areas

Regardless of the clear view of cause and effect, the mirage of profit valued over life, the destruction continues. Misinformation and business as usual dominates the rally call for continued development; the new and ever improved automobile, air conditioning unit, stocks in insurance, the pharmaceutical industry. Framing everything as if it must always grow and expand, without questioning the principle at all, even though it is obvious we live on a finite planet with limited resources.

 

dailymail uk florida state of emergency dolphin bleeding closer

An example of the infiltration of politics polluting the media, the mainstream news channel NBC feature story doesn’t get beyond a superficial description. They stay away from even mentioning the true sources of the problem that has been occurring for decades and getting exponentially worse. due to run off from cowswitch deaths camps and Big Dairy, where cattle are cramped in horrific conditions prior to their slaughter, and their run off feeding into Lake Okeechobee.

nbc news decaying process CAN – DOES deplete oxygen in the water.

The NBC news story doesn’t indicate the pesticide agricultural runoff channelled into the lake or even mention the various repercussions from big Sugar also having built massive structures in addition to the Hoover dyke, that blocks the natural flow of water into the Everglades. Underplaying the cause, simply not going there.

Like the organized medical care industry, with gains tied into profits leveraged from Big Pharma, the focus is on symptoms rather than pointing to the source of the illness and clear remedies to proactively steer the process into a healthy direction.

It is only until fairly recently that many of the systemic problems in mass industrialized production have become apparent, through perspectives coming not from mainstream media, but sources who actually are the watchdogs of injustices to humans and animals. One can’t rely on institutions who are beholden to their financial investors to unveil the truth.

With capitalism’s heralded GDP as the dominant global value measuring stick, the compulsion is to continue towards what will increase the accounting books, ever increasing growth through perpetual production. This is with the knowledge of the destruction that it is causing to the most precious parts of our planet. In just the last days the freedom to read and research information through the internet allows us to see what is happening, everywhere. That is, if we pay attention to it.

Perpetual production and economic growth is the slippery slope that is completely embedded in this game.

Thing is, when our perceptions are continuously steered towards what we think is important and we continue to do nothing as one after another decision is made that affects all of us commonly, we allow these rights to be taken without even being aware. We think that we have choices and freedom, without really seeing beyond the myopic goal of acquiring more things to bring us comfort and pleasure.

Frederick Douglass in 1857 wrote Power concedes nothing without a demand

“…Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform…Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress…”

Climate change: What could be wiped out by temperature rise

BBC Climate Change Collapse Ecosystems

Penguin disaster as only two chicks survive from colony of 40,000

Adelie penguins rely on Krill as their diet, Krill fisheries diminish their food supply

Only by investing in local, renewable and sustainable sources of energy and an overwhelming focus on education and a campaign that builds awareness of the threats we face that could be assuaged or slowed down somewhat, through exposure to how collectively changing habits could effect big changes. There is plenty of awareness about issues that various regions face and what can be done to stop destruction, yet the biggest battle is the political red tide.

A safe operating space for humanity “Identifying and quantifying planetary boundaries that must not be transgressed could help prevent human activities from causing unacceptable environmental change, argue Johan Rockström and colleagues.”

World Wildlife Fund Teachers Resource Guides ToolKits

Greenpeace Tool-kit for a Plastic-free Future

national wildlife federation create wildlife habitat in your own back yard

I’m so sorry that I just found this below, perhaps summarizing ‘collapsologie’ which I just learned about from a French artist living in Providence. I was looking for an English version of collapsologie
It’s a manual of what to do in the present to prepare for the collapse.

Instead I found this, with mention of many of their sources, being French ones.
“Why Everything Will Collapse”

“If you sense that the future looks bleak, that there is little chance that this whole mess will end in joy and good humor, that there is a tiny chance that we will escape a systemic collapse of the thermo-industrial civilization, you are not far from reality. In this video, based on the available data, we try to explain why we think the situation is inextricable and that a systemic collapse is now inevitable.”

Why Everything Will Collapse

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