Over the past few weeks, our late rain
season has played to a possible downfall of one of our great lakes. Due to the
heavy rain that has been seen in the Lake Erie areas, fertilizers from the farmers’
fields have been washed into streams and directly into the like. Scientists
believe that this extra chemical base can provide a perfect growing area for
algae in the lake side areas. It is believed that this summer we will see a
notable increase in the algae in the lake that will attribute to many problems
for underwater life in the area. This tarp of toxic algae creates a cover over
all underwater life, killing thousands of fish and other underwater residences.
We must understand that this is our
fault, right? I mean, we do get it that we are the cause of so much destruction
on this planet that there is no possible way we can blame anyone other than
ourselves for this mess. People need to eat; government lets farmers use fertilizer
to grow more food; fertilizer destroyers water source. It is not like we can
blame one specific group of people for this mess. We don’t have officials going
around to regulate the amount of fertilizer used by farmers and we don’t have
100% of all farmers using the legal amount of fertilizer. What we need to do is
plan ahead of these events. If the long term forecast says that we are going to
have heavy rain in and around Lake Erie, then ask farmers to use less fertilizer
in that specific time period. If we continue to run around like we completely own
the land we work on, the land we farm, the lakes we drink out of; then we are
not going to survive very much longer.
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