Survival is in Our Hands

Starting with this blog, my focus will be the environment, and particularly water quality issues. My recently published book, " A Drinker's Guide to Pure Water--Is Your Water Safe?" established my near term direction. We have reached a point in the history of our planet that demands attention and action to rectify our degarding environment. This should not be a political issue, but many have made it one. So be it. My blog, as does my book, scrapes away scabs to reveal the full story and unearth political involvements if any exist.

We are all bedfellows when environment issues raise their head. Earth is our home, and we must sleep in the environmental bed that we make. If bedbugs lurk between the sheets we must flush them out, and find the source. We cannot simply sleep with them and pretend that they will simply go away. Our environmental problems are becoming major crises and as such we must tackle them realistically.

Toxic water is a reality in daily life. We breathe contaminated air with every breath. Tainted food kills. Poisoned land and ladfill waste abounds. Yet we pretend that nothing can harm us or our loved one's other that some unforeseen war, horrible accident, or act of nature. The environment that we allow to surround us is quicly dismissed after a sensational environmental accident occurs, or people die from food poisoining, or a some other disaster causes extensive pollution damage and death.

Yet, we live in an ever increasing toxic world caused by industrial contamination, toxic waste from toxic products, and archaic sewage treatments that poison vast water ways, air, and land. Simple greed counts more to some industrial executives than the safety and health of their workers and the consuming public as they profit from the production of toxic products that spread poisons into the environment. Elected politicians and appointed bureaucrats often dismiss environmental realities to curry favors to their money bags and high-placed supporters.

We, the six billion ordinary people of the world are simultaneously the victims and the enablers of the global environmental spiral downward. Somehow we must grasp the consequences of this duplex folly and awaken. We must demand that the world leaders stop wars against one another and instead join the human race to combat the inevitable environmental disaster that is on the horizon if we fail to act. The toxic world coupled with global warming represent the most compelling reason for world cooperation, rather than continued world hostility. The choice is ours. We, the six billion ordinary people must reach out to each other and create a world that encompasses passion for life and a sustainable environment for all livng things.

This passion for survival must enable us to "Work as One for the Survival of All". Our environment is the common bond that we all share with other life forms as this tiny planet spins and rotates in the endless heavens above. We must not, we cannot, let each other down. Let us all join hands and work for the survival of all species of life. Let us begin this journey now.