Change

Out of sight, out of mind is an old adage that best describes the modern environmental movement in the United States. The environmentalist close their eyes to the mining of minerals in China where the ground water is poisoned and the air is polluted. Coal fired power plants spew CO2, along with nitrates and sulfates into the air causing respiratory problems and acid rain while the Yellow River, the water source for 150 million Chinese, is being contaminated with heavy metals like arsenic, antimony, mercury and lead. In Africa children are mining cobalt and in South America Native Indians are moved out to mine lithium in order to build electric cars. These environmentalists do not want mining or coal plants in the US and thus they are farmed out to other countries. Meanwhile Americans continue to build bigger houses further away from work while they water and fertilize their one-acre yards both at home and their lake cabin while they fill their garage with SUV’s and pickup trucks parked next to their four wheelers, mowers, trimmers and edgers and boats. Factories were closed and sent to pollute in China and the good paying manufacturing job was replaced with cheap TV’s. Corporation profits rose while working people watched their incomes drop. CEO’ saw salaried clime dragging up all managers while the working people saw their wages stagnate. All of this is changing and it is causing a lot of turmoil. How this will end is still up in the air.