It is so beautiful to live in the rural area and country part of South Carolina. Watching the tall lofty forest trees in woodlands with bobbing blue jays and singing cardinals. Taking in deep breaths of clean fresh air and smelling the fragant of giant white magnolias from trees, roses, azaleas, daffodils, tulips and other flowering vines, bushes, and stemmed flowers is very energizing. What a wonderful sight to behold and what restfulness of sceneric peace and beauty to drink in. Blue lakes, streams and ponds for fishing and just enjoying the fresh outdoors and blowing breezes in the blazing midday sun. Or to look up at the blue canopy of the heavenly sky and watch the cotton candy clouds play a game of chase as they move across the western horizon. What a wonderful world is our world! What a beautiful place earth is!
At night when I gaze up at a full moon in a darken sky with a tail of stars hanging at its tip leaving a trail like the cow jumping over the moon. I want to laugh and let my poetic soul start chanting and reciting every childhood nursery rhymn I can remember. I am filled with wonder and a sense of hush like a Mother quieting her child in a restful sleep and calm. It took God seven days to create the heavens and earth and everything in it that He made was beautiful and good. But the question is how long will it take humans to destroy and ruin their natural habitat or environment? For the lack of love and appreciating this wonderful world we're living in, what will it take for human beings to appreciate our world?
But all is not well with our beautiful dying world from poisionous toxics of air pollution, smog from factories, harmful chemicals dumped in our rivers and ponds killing our wild life that drink from these streams and the fish that are contaminated from mercury and other harmful pollutions as sewage and oil spills. What a different picture you see when you drive down the highway and litter is thrown all over the green grass and smell the choking air of burnt trees as millions of acres of forest being burned up from a careless match or a fire left unattend. Cigarette butts, beer, soda, and whiskey bottles and cans are thrown and scattered all across the grassy sides of the highways spoiling the view of greenery on both sides of the road. A litter bag in the vehicle for trash would save our highways of such unsightly trash.
A common cold is not healed because the air pollution from smog and coals are bringing hazards effect on our health, especially, children and pregnant women. Asthma and other respiratory diseases are a result of breathing polluted air. The clean living we all seek, the fresh clean air we breath, the purity of the water we drink and fish swim in is dependent on the health of our surrounding environment. The relationship between our public health and the health of our environment has enormous consequences on the welfare of our citizens, our communities and our economy. People's health and well-being can be greatly improved by making changes in the environment. This can be in the work place or in the community. Health will improve immediately when these changes are made.
How healthy are we? The rising rates of asthma, lung cancer, obesity and other chronic diseases including heart disease and diabetes are linked to exposure to toxic air pollution. A compelling connection between the quality of air we breathe and our health. How clean is our water? A third of our rivers are unfit for recreational use, and limitations has been placed on consumption of fish due to the high levels of mercury, which has placed pregnant women at risks for their babies to have adverse health effects.
Carbon dioxide (CO2) released from coal fired power plants is proven to be one of the chief causes of global warming in the United States and the world. This smog coming from smokestacks of coal becomes airborne and in the form of mercury falls with rain, fog and snow contaminates the soil and water. This neurotoxin can cause mental retardation and impaired vision in children, and kidney damage in adults. All our lives auto and diesel fuel with incessant noise continue to surround our lives with pollution and yet no one knows what's going on. We are continually putting ourselves and our children at risk of chronic and life threatening illnesses. If we don't act, our children and their children will not survive. What can we do? Take action!
