It's not the heat.....It's the garbage! If you choose not to read....Please at least watch the video and give me your feedback!

Well here we are once again celebrating "National Hug A Tree Day" and the environmentalist are spreading the word of our impending doom. Not just any doom but that pressing day that we all turn into Kingsford charcoal and flame up under the heat generated by all those unregulated 89 Corollas. Wait a minute.....we might just all drown from the tidal wave of Arctic water that surges from those melting polar ice caps. I wonder if the polar bear will become the new state animal of lower Alabama? Either way the battle of global destruction rages on.

People who do not really know me that well tend to throw me in the environmental wacko category because I (like most sensible humans) care about the environment. The problem is that I see the problem slightly different from those chaining themselves to the largest tree they can find. To me it seems like we are all on the sinking Titanic and people are up in arms about the possibility that the boat may catch on fire.

When it comes to environmental issues I prefer to focus on issues that do not take 25 years of research to figure out. Every time someone asks me about global warming....I say if the smartest scientists on the planet can't seem to agree on whether this is scare tactics or true science......how the Hell am i going to know. every month the earth is getting hotter according to some and colder according to others. The truth is we will never know who is right because we will all be dead before they come to some agreement. So what is it that I am concerned about? Well the Meeker considers himself a common sense kind of guy.



I give you my official stance on the environment in two simple causes that I feel passionate about......and they have nothing to do with global warming!

Somehow we have replaced the word POLLUTION with GLOBAL WARMING. People understand pollution. Pollution affect everyone RIGHT NOW! There is no guessing and no debate about dirty air and water. When I was a kid, you could grab a fishing pole and head out to any body of water in Mobile and eat what ever you caught. You could swim with your mouth open! You could lay in the salt water of the beach and clear up a dozen mosquito bites in one vacation day. I would not eat a fish out of dog river or swim in Mobile Bay if you paid me. At least a dozen times a year we are alerted to the ever familiar warning of contaminates in the water way. Don't swim of this beach. Don't eat fish from the bay. Don't get in the water with an open wound if you like having flesh cover your bones. A few years back the Press register had an article revealing the mercury count in fish along the Gulf Coast. Let me tell you that it was not something to brag about. Not even a month ago we were alerted to the coal sludge that was pouring into the bay over at Mcduffie Terminal. By focusing all this time and effort to something that might eventually happen with the temperature, we have neglected the things that have an IMMEDIATE impact on life at this moment. I am not as concerned about the chance of global temperature rise in 100 years because we are all going to be standing around with our thumb up our ass scared to do anything. Lets think about quality of life people. Lets think about preserving and protecting what we have right now. You do not need a PHD or a Verizon style network of politicians to tell you that we are dirtying up or own porches. What a disgrace to think that we are already to the point where eating fish that is not stamped Winn Dixie is something they did before your time.

MY BIGGEST complaint is that we are not focusing on a problem that a 6th grader can see. It's not so much about temperature folks. It is about garbage. People always wonder why I am against all the plastic crap that we like to produce and use. All those damn Walmart bags and bottled waters do not go anywhere. They do not turn into dirt. They do not just disappear when you chunk them in the BFI can. Where do we think all this garbage is going? For on week just look at the amount of garbage you throw out. Now just try and think about where all this crap is going. You can keep digging holes and filling them over with dirt but eventually you are going to run out of room. The land fills are becoming such prized real estate that the Mississippi river has become a log jam of garbage filled barges headed to the less dense southern states for dumping. Other countries have resorted to just dumping their garbage right in the ocean. This has led to a wonderful phenomenon of destruction. So I beg all you tree hugging people and Prius owners to take a step back and start looking at things that are not up for debate. Try putting more time into preserving what planet and beautiful land we have or who will really give a sh%$ if we eventually burn up. We will be so tired of the mountains of garbage and the smell that we will gladly line up for the barbecue. So on this Earth Day, please take a moment to consider a problem that is not going away and is increasing every day. Try getting off the plastic bags and don't be scared to recycle the plastic you do use.

"Americans use 2 million plastic drink bottles every 5 minutes......every day"