Youth Of America Among Biggest River Polluters? Say It Ain’t So, Bunker Joe.

I’m pissed enough to pollute the Potomac. Why not? Everybody else seems to be trashing that river and our other waterways. Here, in Falls Church, Va. we’re blessed like other burbs in the DC watershed region with umpteen beautiful forested valleys and creeks feeding the Chesapeake Bay, then, the mighty Atlantic. At my own backyard, I enjoy every morning a walk along a meandering trout run that often turns into rocky rapids whenever rainfall spills over from a nearby damned lake.

So, what’s my problem? This week alone I’ve bagged enough garbage to fill the DNC Convention’s studio from which Joe Biden will be telling the Youth of America that they deserve a great leader like himself. Problem is, Joe has been in power for 40 years while telling us our environment stinks more than ever under his watch…and, by my own study of backyard garbage, it’s the supposedly environmentally concerned Youth of America that are doing the most polluting behind my house. How do I know? Because the inventory I’ve compiled is overwhelmingly what I’ll kindly call “kid crap”: Dasani Spring Water bottles easily lead the way, followed by Doritos bags and Heineken beer cans (mind you, no Sam Adams, just Heinekens); next most numerous is dirty diapers and (for some reason) empty garbage bags apparently left behind for my use.

Not to forget the historical dangers of climate change. Joe’s bankrupting yet ineffective Paris Climate Accord was a joke without a punch line. But, that doesn’t mean the nation doesn’t address the threat with the best science available. Nor is it suggested the polluting corporations pouring toxins into our waterways be left off the hook. Clean ‘n Gut ‘em, I say. Yet, it is amazing how simple THIS waterway pollution problem could be SOLVED, if only the punks would walk their talk.

Davd Soul