We do not want another algae bloom, which becomes toxic to sea life and creates a dead zone off the coast of Louisiana and Mississippi. Each Hurricane season storms would blow into the coastal beaches pieces of the of this toxic algae bloom creating a mini-ecosystem disaster. Unfortunately all this pollution flow of chemicals, human waste and debris has run off into streams and rivers and is well on its way to the ocean.

The Oceans of our planet are incredibly resilient but like anything they can only take so much abuse. The notion that the solution to pollution is dilution is a well known fact, however this axiom fails with the level of density of debris now flowing into the bays, rivers and harbors which are one with the ocean as the water, like all roads, do connect.

This is a real issue and if we look at the algae bloom, which is currently 80 miles of the coast of Fort Myers, FL and the red tide it brings in each year we see the absolute environmental nightmare for fishing, shoreline birds and sea life. We will not even discuss the financial tourism disaster, as no one want to go to a beach with dead fish washing up.

We must be thinking here as we figure out how to minimize our exposure to the environmental pollution run-off from the Hurricane Katrina. We must be serious about this; it is an emergency. Do you have any ideas?

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