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appalachiablue

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16. Many people think the course is set as you describe, and so do I. The elites may find

Reply to CrispyQ (Reply #15)

Sun May 17, 2015, 12:00 PM

May 2015

a way to isolate themselves from the worst of the turmoil for a while, on their mega ships or self sustaining colonies in New Zealand, but eventually they won't be able to avoid or correct the fouled air and oceans and the climate disasters.

Perhaps they think advanced technology which will be theirs to control will come to the rescue- that's uncertain and arrogant if it's the case. These sociopathic, greedy and self focused humans are a bad lot. I wish a prevention or treatment for them could be developed, but the problem is hardly acknowledged and they're the ones in charge of resources and research, for the time being.

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A FISH WITH CANCER RAISES QUESTIONS ABOUT HEALTH OF SUSQUEHANNA RIVER [View all] appalachiablue May 2015 OP

That's a big tumor bananas May 2015 #1

Fertilizers, nitrogen, phosphorus and other endocrine disruptors like ATRAZINE, the no. 1 appalachiablue May 2015 #3

All's not ok with life in our toxic environment- for fish, birds, plants, water, air, soil & us- appalachiablue May 2015 #5

The rich think they are immune from all this, CrispyQ May 2015 #6

Maybe they protect themselves with water filters, organic food grown on their farms appalachiablue May 2015 #7

Oh, I don't think it's crackpot stuff at all, but it's still just a bigger cushion. CrispyQ May 2015 #15

Many people think the course is set as you describe, and so do I. The elites may find appalachiablue May 2015 #16

You have stated perfectly, the thoughts that I've had. CrispyQ May 2015 #17

+1 FLPanhandle May 2015 #12

Amen. I've unfortunately come to that realization in the last year or two. appalachiablue May 2015 #13

Fracking Chemicals Koinos May 2015 #2

Unfortunately yes. It's a Toxic Environment we live in! See #3. appalachiablue May 2015 #4

And then they sell us the same water in bottles. Koinos May 2015 #8

+100. They also profit $$ from the money we pay when we get sick from the toxins appalachiablue May 2015 #9

No matter what we do, they eventually get everything we have. Koinos May 2015 #10

Being in the 'extraction' business that's their expertise, any natural resources, human appalachiablue May 2015 #11

Washington Post* "Why a Smallmouth Bass with a Rare, Cancerous Tumor has PA officials worried" appalachiablue May 2015 #14

People swim in that river. MadrasT May 2015 #18

I can believe people people swim in the Susquehanna like the fish and other wildlife appalachiablue May 2015 #19

I didn't know the Susquehanna flowed through Springfield KamaAina May 2015 #20

Great looking fish there! the nuclear power plant mutant, eek. Wherever the 'Simpsons' appalachiablue May 2015 #21

Springfield, VT won a competition KamaAina May 2015 #22

I'd tend to go with Oregon cuz of Groening- appalachiablue May 2015 #23

CORPORATIONS POLLUTE, PASS ALONG THE COST OF THE TRASH THEY DON'T CLEAN UP appalachiablue May 2015 #24