This article refers readers writes in the Blank Slate Media Newspapers, Friday, March 17, 2017 edition.
Esther Confino’s article “Trump attacks environment” can be summed up by saying: we all have to clean up after our dogs but Trump and Pruitt (some kind of fruit?) want it so that the money hogs can crap anywhere and just leave it stinking.
A brief elaboration of the above is that there are a multitude of ecosystems, an example of which are such as those on dry land, the brook along the Meadow Brook Parkway with its ponds and farther on in the swamps where it mixes with salt water. They are all different.
In the realm of nature where dogs and all other things in the wild with metabolism and excretion, nature cleans all of this so that water in many streams is drinkable and also that in reservoirs and underground water.
The plant realm is thereby supported and nourished.
Only we as humans can ruin it and we have the responsibility not to do so.
[State] Sen. Elaine Phillips in her article “Threats against Long Islands water” mentioned the intrusion of ocean saltwater into our aquifer.
Brooklyn’s water supply was ruined by over pumping.
Summing that up, Long Island has reached its peak of development.
The future may require that water from all roofs drain into large underground tanks and runoff water likewise be collected.
Finally for today is the article “Single-payer health an assault on humanity” by Dr. Wayne Roth.
He really seems to be all tied up in knots and ‘nots’ too.
A while back I read about a man in Cuba who on his own developed a ‘solution’ or ‘solutions’ to greatly aid in alleviating the problems caused by diabetes.
He did it not for money but as a service for humanity.
The way it is here now, the money wart hogs want to get rich on the suffering of their fellow human beings.
Perhaps there is some conscience developing being that sufficient Republicans didn’t allow Trump to completely destroy Obama’s health care program.
Perhaps they have some respect for themselves after all.
A little ray of light in this time of darkness. A little ray of hope.
Charles Samek
Mineola
