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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (21536)	8/12/2001 8:43:40 AM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

The biggest problem is waste disposal and I would guess in the future some bio-chemical means of either breaking down waste or torching it will be developed. Better ways must be developed to deal with our waste. "Yet, even if America's trash output continues to rise as it has done in the past, and even if the American population doubles by 2100, all the rubbish America produces through the entire 21st century will still take up only the area of a square, each of whose sides measures 28km (18 miles). That is just one-12,000th of the area of the entire United States." I was surprised to see last week in Montana ditches over-flowing with plastic and garbage. Another waste is the amount of money spent on zapping weeds in crops. There is no extra expense to rotate crops and summer fallow more. The chemical lobby has convinced farmers they can't get out of bed in the morning without spraying Round-Up on something. There is a sickening advert of a father handing his son a big pail of farm chemicals, the father has a knowing smirk and the child a serious expression as he looks up to Pa. In the next picture Ma drives up bringing a picnic basket they share on the dropped tail gate of an old pick-up, in the center of this family portrait is the pail of chemicals. I'm not sure how far Ma, Pa, Jimmy and Uncle Round-Up will get us, these chemicals are killing water aquifers and there are better ways to farm chemical free.