It's getting harder to breathe
by Kathy Fisher, Unknown News
klfisher@webtv.net
Sept. 24, 2007
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I take a lot of supplements. I try to eat the right
foods and all my life I've loved to exercise outdoors, but now more than ever
I
suffer so much from this rotten polluted air, that at times it's almost
unbearable. No wonder I rarely see more than a handful of people
jogging
or walking lest alone bicycling any more. Most stay in their cars
with
windows rolled up tight and the AC on full blast.
Even at the two nearby parks that have special bike paths and
walkways, I
hardly ever see the multitude of joggers and cyclists I was did a mere ten
years ago. They've all gone indoors to the gyms, where they can safely
breathe climate controlled air.
We're lucky if we get two days a week when the air is nice and clean
and
free of smells that make you suspicious of what your being exposed
to.
Days where you can walk without getting sick to your stomach. The
rest
of the week, I'd advise fellow trekkers to wear a respiratory mask!
Soon we'll need the oxygenated kind! It never use to be this bad.
Another contribution to the air quality was the heavy rains we had in
the spring, that left so many homes stinking with toxic mold.
Block after block as I walk past, I almost gagged from the smell!
One
out of every six homes has been damaged in one way or
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another, either
the
roof leaked into the attic or the basement got flooded.
I think to myself, how can these people live inside a home that had so much
water damage and not do anything about it? Here it is, five months
later
and they haven't done a thing to remedy this. Nice upscale homes, too!
Maybe they had no flood insurance?
Add these new smells with the added cars to my area due to all the
new
townhouses and condos being built, and it's taxing on the sewer system and
the air quality, which now lacks any quality at all.
For the last twenty years they've been constantly digging up the roads to add new pipes to facilitate
new development, and then there's the road expansion and rearranging all
those overpaths and hundreds of new ways to get to the usual
shopping
malls, all making it more difficult to go out to get a few bags of much-needed groceries and go to work so one can afford these basics. Who
needs it? Who asked for it?
Even in the most rural areas of upper northern New Jersey, a place I
used
to consider untouched virgin country where a body could go to get
away
from the crowds, perfect for mountain biking is now gone, forever
changed, scarred with McMansions and sprawling acres of one-story
townhouses where there once stood dairy farms and multitudes of horse
ranches separated by fields of clover, across narrow roads used only
by
the farmers to tend to their small vegetable farms which they would
take
to a farmers' market on US hwy 512...
Those days long gone!
Those small stretches of patchy
forests I used to drive past have been bulldozed out of the way to make room for
new highways with gas stations and strip malls.
Oh, the ugliness of man's insatiable appetite to destroy every square
foot
of God's green earth for the profit of a handful of greedy fools.
Now I know why 'strip mall' is a good word for them -- the land has been
stripped clean of what was once beautiful and pristine.
My state is surely not alone in the ongoing destruction of the
earth, it's happening everywhere, and it will continue till not a single
human being can breathe without gasping and clutching their chest
for
air.
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