| We do not want another algae bloom, which becomes | | | | the water, like all roads, do connect.This is a real issue |
| toxic to sea life and creates a dead zone off the | | | | and if we look at the algae bloom, which is currently 80 |
| coast of Louisiana and Mississippi. Each Hurricane | | | | miles of the coast of Fort Myers, FL and the red tide it |
| season storms would blow into the coastal beaches | | | | brings in each year we see the absolute environmental |
| pieces of the of this toxic algae bloom creating a | | | | nightmare for fishing, shoreline birds and sea life. We |
| mini-ecosystem disaster. Unfortunately all this pollution | | | | will not even discuss the financial tourism disaster, as |
| flow of chemicals, human waste and debris has run | | | | no one want to go to a beach with dead fish washing |
| off into streams and rivers and is well on its way to | | | | up.We must be thinking here as we figure out how to |
| the ocean.The Oceans of our planet are incredibly | | | | minimize our exposure to the environmental pollution |
| resilient but like anything they can only take so much | | | | run-off from the Hurricane Katrina. We must be |
| abuse. The notion that the solution to pollution is dilution | | | | serious about this; it is an emergency. Do you have |
| is a well known fact, however this axiom fails with the | | | | any ideas?Lance Winslow - Online Think Tank forum |
| level of density of debris now flowing into the bays, | | | | board. |
| rivers and harbors which are one with the ocean as | | | | |