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this time ~ this space » Drinking water: Drinking Drugs — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:51:46 +0000

[...] “We know we are being exposed to other people’s drugs through our drinking water, and that can’t be good,” says Dr. David Carpenter, who directs the Institute for Health and the Environment of the State University of New York at Albany.” Source Related post: Contraception: Estrogen in Municipal Waste Water [...]

By: brightfeather

brightfeather — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:38:36 +0000

Sheesh, Richard – it seems that you and I are always on the same page. My biggest concern at this point in time is the younger folks I meet and their complete disregard for the environment. They are hypocrites who sing politically correct tunes in their term papers. But then they suck up their fancy Starbucks coffees, or rush off to the Golden Arches and the Burger Kings clutching their coupons ready to get their “bargains”. They have never seen a feedlot or a municipal treatment plant and they don’t give a damn about what they flush into the water table and aquifers. Maybe I’m a pessimist but it seems to me the more educated youth become are the more dull of wit, lacking in conscience and distant from nature they become. Harruuummph!

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:09:10 +0000

We are biological creatures too and we have to remember that these are the connections that ultimately matter the most.

Mankind – the west in particular – has for too long seen itself as separate and above nature. Nature was something to be conquered, mastered, subjugated, or simply ignored as if it did not matter. Even our seemingly benign actions have far reaching effects; unintended consequences.

At some point we will wake up, but I sometimes wonder if it will be after the curtain call.