what is talking about and arguing about it on this forum gonna change?
Believe me, I was talking to my grandfather and he said the lakes rivers were FAR more polluted back in his day than they are today! The water had much worse stuff in it then. The Merrimack river, you couldn't even go swimming in it as late as the 1970's. It was very polluted. My mom walked home from Lowell High School everyday and had to cross the river to get home, it was a different color everyday! It depended on what dyes and other crap the factories dumped in it. I think things are much cleaner today because of the EPA and everything. We say we don't want all these govt agencies telling us what to do, but you know what, without them, we would destroy the environment! If we kept doing what we did back in the old days, we wouldn't have a river or a lake suitable for swimming in. The Govt is getting into our lives because we are too stubborn to police ourselves. Something had to be done about the environment, people didn't care enough about it to preserve it, obviously, because we were dumping crap in the rivers and lakes, so they had to form the EPA. So we had the chance to do the right thing, now we're forced to do the right thing.
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