Week 13: How might we deal differently with environmental pollutants?

How about if we didn’t create them in the first place? And if they are created, why not practice some Green Chemistry approaches and have zero waste? There’s a concept for us. I mean really, did we have to create a let loose over 80,000 chemicals into the environment? Wasn’t anyone paying attention to the havoc we are wrecking on the earth’s atmosphere, waters and land and the health of all the species of life that inhabits it?

Last week the New York Times came out with an article that the leading scientists are now thinking that these 80,000 loose chemicals are what might be causing the huge upswing in various forms of cancers, degenerative diseases and autism. Really, it just occurred to them? And, then we have to consider what happens when those chemicals combine with one another…because it’s not like they aren’t combining and creating yet more deadly, hazardous combinations amongst themselves.

We need to go back to the premise that Paul Pitchford urged us to practice: don’t put anything on your body that you wouldn’t put in it! And that goes for the environment…if you wouldn’t let whatever the pollutant is loose on your own family and property, then don’t let it loose on the rest of creation, either!