all we have to do...

is just recycle those newspapers and bottles.

and all will be well.


Mickey Z


When your planet is as polluted as ours, there’s plenty of eco-blame to go around...but let’s get serious here. Huge multi-national corporations ravage the earth every single second of every single day, in search of their beloved profits. The Average American (AvAm) can rightly share some blame - thanks to silent complicity - for the subsequent eco-nightmare. The real offenders, however, remain invisible and unpunished by cleverly deflecting most of the eco-blame to the AvAm.

And then there’s this...

As if it wasn’t bad enough to spend a million taxpayer dollars per minute on war, the US military is also in a league by itself when it comes to pollution. “The US Department of Defense is the largest polluter in the world, producing more hazardous waste than the five largest US chemical companies combined,” writes Lucinda Marshall, founder of the Feminist Peace Network. “In the US, one out of every ten Americans lives within ten miles of a military site that has been listed as a Superfund priority cleanup site,” adds Marshall. “The health problems that have been documented as being attributable to these various toxins in military use include miscarriages, low birth weight, birth defects, kidney disease, and cancer. Military pollution most directly affects those who are targeted by our weapons, soldiers and anyone living near a military base, both in the US and abroad.”

Keep that in mind the next time someone insinuates that everything would be so much better if you and I would just “go green.”