What We Can’t Bottle up Forever.

A couple of weeks ago the internet was buzzing about the FYRE Festival, that never happened. The Netflix documentary special seemed to be popular and many people were consuming and talking about it. I was blown away by it myself and how someone would purposely choose to cheat people just to make a profit. That is the saddest part of society that someone would choose to do whatever it took, in the short term, just to make money when it is not sustainable or even beneficial to themselves long term.



The thing is that this happens with a lot of companies and it is not just with a product that takes peoples money and doesn’t deliver. Sometimes it happens with whole companies that operate for years. Another documentary on Netflix that did not get as much attention was “The Devil We Know”. This is a documentary about DuPont and how they have poisoned the whole world over the last thirty some years with a deadly toxin that is permanently in everyone’s blood now. That crime and effect seem more heinous than anything a bad festival could have done to a limited amount of people. I did not hear any reviews by the YouTube public or trending on the news about the damage that was done.

It is amazing how we grab on to celebrities and the elite having some short pain in their lives over a concert but we completely ignore what happens to the general public. There are so many diseases that are attributed to the chemicals Dupont put into the environment and there is no wonder that cancer increases each year. Can we directly contribute it to Dupont? Probably not because they have spent years covering it up. According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer. The number of new cancer cases per year is expected to rise to 23.6 million by 2030.

The documentary goes on to explain that the company, based on a class action lawsuit, stopped the production of the toxic material but no not really. They just changed the chemical makeup and repackaged it as something else that will have to be studied for years to see if it is as toxic to us. My issue is an anger that they did not even attempt to filter out the toxic chemicals before dumping it into our waterways. They could have at least tried to filter it through charcoal and sand filters first but putting it directly in our water seemed to be easier for them.

Do you remember the movie, Erin Brockovich? That was the same situation with another company PG&E who polluted the town of Hinkley. Today it is a ghost town because ultimately the damage can not be repaired and the water is still contaminated, who knows how and if it spread it is to other areas. I looked up a video by Ms. Brockovich talking about this current documentary and I was saddened to see that the video got a total of 9 likes. I couldn’t find anything else about anyone at all talking about it. It is amazing that it is an issue that is as quiet as the town of Hinkley. https://youtu.be/OZcdperamtA

Besides that, there are known harmful toxic algae blooms in Florida coastal waters hurting people. It is contributed to industries and big business dumping production bi-products harmfully in the waterways. Those companies are covering it up using lobbyist effectively to keep it under wraps. Politicians are under some kind of discretion to keep it from being a matter of public interest. Our water is being polluted all around the world and many claims if we clean up our act China will just continue where we left off. The argument is that they are worse, so let us do nothing. I say we need to set the example.

Let us not forget about Flint Michigan. How soon we all lost interest in the toxic lead water and other chemicals that were poisoning that town. General Motors was given clean water to operate at their plant over others that were chosen to be poisoned. Many claimed that the Governor changed the water source to benefit corporations like Nesley Co. and supplement losses because of tax breaks to other corporations. Experts are still reporting that as of January 2019 the water was still not safe to drink.

Until the public is actually concerned about this issue of corporations poisoning us all there will be no real change. We will continue to create whole industries that threaten the environment. Create corporations that abuse us and create jobs that destroy us.