I’m tired of hearing about the oceans.
Not that I don’t care, I do, but why are we concentrating our attention on dolphins.
You know the storm drains go straight to the ocean!
Yeah, you know where else they go? RIGHT PAST YOUR FUCKING HOUSE.
A quick personal anecdote:
When I lived in Fairbanks we lived directly across the river from a coal fired power plant which provided energy to much of the municipality.
I often found it odd that, even though you could drive an 18 wheeler across said river, it never really froze outside of our house.
The power company had of course reassured us, through a full-paged ad in the Daily News Miner that this oddity should be attributed to natural river tides, and not blatant corporate pollution with sanctioned consequences, which was obviously the case.
My dog Suzi, who often drank from the river, died of liver cancer, as did my sister’s cat.
Around the time I graduated high school, my friends Raif and Cedar were working for a company removing asbestos, and I was told I could get a well paying hourly job with said company.
My dad, who had installed all of the asbestos laden insulation in our home advised me against it, so I didn’t take the job.
That being said, whilst I was considering the job, Raif told me that, thankfully, before removing the asbestos they were required to take a course in safety and exposure, and he explained to me that he had learned that many chemicals are absorbed through the soft tissue in your feet.
Luckily my friends were well equipped, and I’m sure gained minimal exposure to the toxins.
However, this brings me back to my point of, F the Dolphins.
I am tired of hearing people speak of the toxins in our environment and use as a concrete example, dolphins.
What about us?
I live in L.A., and the amount of pollution running right under my feet at any given point, is real.
A drop of what runs through our streets is a consistency of which you could take a drop, squirt it into a haystack, throw the haystack into a lake, take a sample of the lake, and said pollution would DWARF what is going on in our oceans right now, in terms of parts per billion.
The oceans are better off than we are.
So, why are we talking about dolphins and not ourselves?
Dolphins are cool, they like to frolic – but are they more important than Ingrid, Jeff, or Geoff?
While Dick Cheney was holding verified secret and illegal meetings with Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, in a blatant conspiracy to enable corporate deregulation, which benefited their own pocketbooks, you fucking dipshits were talking about dolphins.
Hopefully the transcripts of said meetings will be released through the tenuous Freedom of Information Act, but until then, why don’t we start following what’s going on in the world, and forget about the fucking dolphins? Hmmm?
Dolphins don’t have names.