The rise of THE SLIME (for real)

[donsu]

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2184.shtml


According to the LA Times, A Primeval Tide of Toxins is coming to or arrived at an ocean, river, bay or town near you. As writer Kenneth R. Weiss puts it, “Runoff from modern life is feeding an explosion of primitive organisms. This 'rise of slime,' as one scientist calls it, is killing larger species and sickening people.” Actually it begs a political metaphor.

In essence, THE SLIME is generated by two events: one, the limitless pouring of pollutants, sewage, toxic chemicals, garbage of all kinds into rivers, bays, and oceans, which ironically feeds the waters and creates the nascent SLIME; the second event is the over-fishing (reduction) of higher sea life forms, from whales to tuna to crabs, shrimp, etc., to jellyfish, until we are down to a strain of cyanobacteria, ancestor of modern-day bacteria and algae that flourished 2.7 billion years ago, that will easily devour the more evolved forms.

A snot-white mold forms on ocean floors from the action of the bacteria on the trapped sea life and sucks the oxygen from them, producing a yard thick layer of fireweed toxic to the touch. In its wake the bacteria algae generated SLIME leaves anoxic or hypoxic “dead zones” whose green growths can eat a sunken metal sculpture of Christ of the Abyss in Key Largo’s waters, or go for the coral reefs that keep the Keys from being flooded.

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It is at its basest really an irony: nature getting even with man, man lost in the vortex of his greed, inviting the tsunami to do lunch. Yet, unbeknownst to him, he is the lunch, that is, when the air is SLIMED, the seas are SLIMED, the earth is SLIMED, and even the Mississippi River is SLIMED from draining 40 percent of America’s land; and off the coast of Hollywood, Florida, a five foot wide “poop chute” spills its sewage into the ocean. What goes around has come around and man is lunch, this mad energy for more feeding until a microbial explosion of energy is released. And the choice to stop its damage is ours. Or is it too late?
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since nothing of import has been done - it is too late.

[Annces]

1. I am hearing this same story from different sources

We are in for big trouble because of pollution.

[donsu]

2. yes and British scientist have discovered that plastic breaks down into

breathable sizes, and that we are now eating and breathing plastic

[DontTreadOnMe]

3. Are you sure?

...but ..but

Why would God create organisms that would hurt humans?
God knows what he is doing, he would not make a mistake like this...

sing along now folks...

I am gross and perverted
Im obsessed n deranged
I have existed for years
But very little had changed
I am the tool of the government
And industry too
For I am destined to rule
And regulate you

I may be vile and pernicious
But you cant look away
I make you think Im delicious
With the stuff that I say
I am the best you can get
Have you guessed me yet?
I am the slime oozin out
From your tv set

You will obey me while I lead you
And eat the garbage that I feed you
Until the day that we dont need you
Dont got for help...no one will heed you
Your mind is totally controlled
It has been stuffed into my mold
And you will do as you are told
Until the rights to you are sold

Thats right, folks..
Dont touch that dial

Well, I am the slime from your video
Oozin along on your livinroom floor

I am the slime from your video
Cant stop the slime, people, lookit me go

[DemoTex]

4. Meanwhile, an explosive increase in staphylococcus aureas infections ..

The CDC says that staph. aureas infections are rampant in Georgia, Texas, and California. The Austin, Texas hospital system reports that 60% of all staph infections treated in their ERs are MRSA - methicillin resistant staph aureus.

Looks like the old civil engineering mantra, "the solution to pollution is dilution", is not working. Shitting in one's nest was never a good idea anyway.

[southerncrone]

5. I see a political corollary to this natural event.........

"THE SLIME is generated by two events: one, the limitless pouring of polluting, sewage, toxic verbal garbage of all kinds into minds of the American people, which ironically feeds the waters and creates the nascent SLIME; the second event is the over-spending of high executive life forms, until we are down to a strain of average Americans being burdened to death with loss of jobs, federal deficit spending, poisoning of food supplies that will easily devour the more evolved forms."

WE are so screwn!