An Endangered Species

It turns out that we are all very much part of a global village. The smoke stacks in China affect the air quality over the oceans.(The USA did this too!)   The rainfalls and the Ocean receives this polluted water. The trash you throw on the ground today winds up in the river you used to play in as a kid tomorrow.  The businesses that should pretreat their waste water but chose not to save a dollar. Along with the farmer who does not practice land based nitrate retention (lots of trees).  As well as the million of people driving their cars usually with only themselves and no thought of carpooling.  Their exhaust spewing out tons of mercury, monoxide, nitrogen more.  Everyone of these people this would be you and I.  All contribute to the environmental degradation that all of nature pays for.  Even creating polluted infiltrate that manages to find its way into our undergound streams that supply us ou drinking water. 
    All ot hese things nature does her best to deal with. As a race though we tend to overload all of these natural systems that are meant to keep our air breathable and our water drinkable.  As a Ecosattav I tend to think the Earth is alive.  Many people would disagree with me.  One thing though that thes same people can agree on is that the Earth is a "complex system".  Designed to maintain oxygen balance in our atmosphere and to keep 'The Water Cycle' going.  We have succesfully interrupted the water cycle.  Let me give you an example.  Let's say you are cooking smoke fills your kitchen.  You now find it hard to breathe.  You have overloaded natures abilitity to disperse pollutants in the atmosphere.  This happens outside too!  America has great clean air laws but China does not.  However since she is aving a few dollars China enjoys a trade surplus.   So does Taiwan.
     Now it is time to take the blinders off of our eyes.  It is time for us to see the amount of environmental degradation on is caused by mankind.  Squirrels don't pollute, people do.  Again it is time to stop pointing our fingers and wagging our tongues. Saying I didn't throw that trash on the ground.  Does not keep it out of the Patapsco River.  Saying too that I don't throw lit cigarette butts on the ground, does not make them break down. (20 years from now those cigarette butts still will not have broken down.) People this is not about what is or in't your fault.  This is about what is. Globally the carbon in our atmosphere is at 387 ppm.  Global temperatures are up 1 degree Celcius.  Science tells us that 350 ppm of carbon is the upper limit for Earth to work as she has.  The oceans are full of carbonic acid.  This same carbomic acid interferes with calcium absorbtion, so shell fish have no strong shells  Jelly fish thrive since we have killed off their predators.  Permanent brown and purplish algae blooms are everywhere.  Nature is out of balance.  The 4th horseman of the Apocalypse is waiting to ride.