The Little School Teacher And Big Business!

Hi Micky Dee, so sorry I am late, very late in getting over to your hubs...this is an exceptional write, very informative, and a much needed exposure to these particular topics of ruin... Money has always been the problem..

What people don't seem to realize is that this earth is only so big and we all have to co-exist on it. If we keep polluting it we will be the losers in the end. Health concerns should outweigh the making of money. Businesses that do otherwise are short sighted to say the least.

Homersapiens!!!!!! l take the serious points from this excellent hub, but can´t help laughing at the evolution of Homer. Great one Micky. Thank you. xx

It seems that when they clean up one area they take to another one far away and mess that other area up :(

so all the do is move the pollution around. I do not call that cleaning it up. sad state of affairs! aloha

Our so called "representatives" loud outcry regarding the cost of taxes for upcoming generations, but talk with forked tongue when it comes to environment concerns. Per brother Marvin Gaye in "What's Goin' On?" do they really care? The answer is no it's all a bunch of lip service and lies. Excellent hub, rated up and shared.

I don't - didn't - know the politics behind it but a "little school teacher" in my memory - Miss Carstarphen - was the best teacher of English I've ever known nor heard of. She taught 4th grade and her pupils simply understood grammar. Somehow it was as though she opened our crania and poured in understanding. But she was fired. I know only that it was because she didn't have the right credentials. But it had to be political somehow. It was a loss to the school system in Del Rio, Texas, in any case. One wonders how many other stories there are like that. . .

Thanks more - again - for the provocative reporting, Micky.

Excellent write about the teacher.

Humanities abuse of our planet seems to know no bounds as your piece on pollution demonstrates so well.

great Hub , very informative

my friend

As a teacher, I really give big appreciation to this hub. Beautiful and very inspiring. I hope all the teacher doing the same thing. Thank you very much for showing me about this. I rate this Up.

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Kudos to little people like the teacher who speaks the truth, Nice tribute to her and the poem is eye opener, Maita

Thanks for another great hub. You do an awesome job of creative writing coupled with facts and video. I always like your writing, though not always the way you make me think. :) Isn't it easier to hide and pretend not to know anything, and not to care? Love your honesty and integrity.

Namaste friend.

Teaching basic skills about how to live as an adult. What a concept. That concept worked for generations. Great post.

My my, I watched the video and i know it must be important, but my little mathematical brain couldn,t get into 7% of anything, i do know that polluters don,t care

just as long as they make that old mighty dollar.When we have to wear oxy. masks to live, then, maybe someone will listen.

Thank,s Micky

P.S.You keep right on digging and writing about it.

Cheers and God,s Speed

Important hub, if a bit discouraging. I just read TonyMac's hub on Beyer; it takes real heroes to turn things around, but we who are caught up in their messes shouldn't also have to buy their bs along with it. Jindle and a pissant judge in Louisiana are trying to do an end run around Obama's administration to get those oil wells pumping faster again, even though those oil wells are in the same shape as the present polluter is. What a wonderful world!

Its amazing how worked up one can get just listing out all the wrongs we have done by the earth,are doing and not trying to stop.Writing such hubs helps in a way, takes a step closer to actually doing something about all thats happening around. Thanks for a reminder! gr8 hub.

As we know Micky politics come first and truth and morals will be pushed aside if they interffere with profits. Big business will make sure the little voice is silenced and run out of town

All great points, Micky - what is wrong with our country that we keep sitting by and allowing this to happen? How can we be so passive watching our world literally destroyed? That is the puzzling thing to me - your here a spill, there a spill, everywhere a spill-spill - nothing could be truer. It kills me to see what we are taking for granted and wonder if ANY of these bigwigs ever stop to think that if the earth is ruined, it will eventually touch them and their big $$ as well. Great hub - love the for sale sign - wish I'd thought of that one a couple of times when I was younger!

Micky the pollution is out of control - sadly it is worse in Eastern Europe and in countries of the third world. I remember reading about East GErmany and others after the Soviets left. It seems man is a mongrel where ever he is. What will make people value life and nature over the buck?

The world is out of control. It's a constant battle for organizations like Greenpeace to try to keep these people of massive corporations and governments from dumping waste into our lakes, rivers and oceans. It's a worldwide epidemic, all we can do is keep speaking out and pray for changes. Our planet is in a tailspin caused by GREED..money is the motivator always. Thanks for speaking out Micky...

Did you see the new report on toxic whales? No wonder, all the pollutants in our rivers feeding all those fish and the Sperm Whale gets it all in one massive dose in his food. I just wonder what is dumped in the oceans that we don't know anything about. thanks for bringing this to our attention Micky, great job old son. My wife got into trouble way back with a teacher for speaking out against DDT before they removed it.

This is another example of money speaking louder than truth. The ones with the money always try to stamp on those who want justice. We just have to keep getting up and dusting ourselves off till we get it.

Thanks for an excellent hub, Micky Dee.

PS. I like the Homersapien

Great hub! So how are we going to solve these pollution problem, especially the oil spill? The government sure as heck is not helping us!

I really understand how that feel, being 'bully' because telling the truth.

Hello Micky Dee. Great sad story here, that needs to be told. Doing the right thing is seldom rewarded with money. This story rings true; I have lived similar truths. Thanks for another thought provoking hub. This is definitely an upper. (:v

My dearest Micky Dee, this is exactly and just how I feel, I did pass a bill in the senate so I don't ever want to here that "once person cannot make a difference", that is not true, we need to stand strong while in the face of all this disaster, it is surrounded up as a very dark evil cloud. We must join together to take a stand, no more excuses, so get on your bikes, cars, rallies and tea! Excellent my friend, this is so important to defend. thumb up and awesome

Bro you drove me from one place to another place but not until i saw the Homosapiens that i realized where you were driving me to therefore in my own opinion and with respect to this great hub,i wish to say this...Africa is a dumping ground of waste products from the west and china as a world industrialized nation has polluted Africa but you are right bro, she drives away because one of the village idiots (African leaders and ofcourse the Nigeria President) forgot to bring father and tar (Justice and good governance)

Mic, I guess you been to some place similar to a place I visited in Tennessee. I don't remember the name of it, I remember passing through it to get to a dam on the TVA to see the barges get through the dam system of raising them up or down to a stair step level from the lake to the river below. Anyway that little town had a paper mill, the stink was enough to let one know something was rotten wrong. As the story was told, the mill paid some fine that seemed outrageous like, 250,000 bucks a day to dump their crap in the river on the plan that it was cheaper to pay the fine than to correct the problem. That said, who ever is in charge of that should be saying "you pay the fine but after 30 days we take your mill away and shut it down".

You know as well as I, the argument of, X number of folks would loose their jobs, so it's not feasible to do that. America needs the paper and on and on. Here in Arizona, the copper mines did the same thing with their smoke stacks at the smelters as well as dumping in the Gila river where I grew up. Fish above the smelter, down where I lived below, no fish, none not one zero. The fish must be smart 'cuz no dead fish either, so they must stay above the area where they dump. Back on track, the Air Resources Board here, shut them down after 6 months, forced them to put essentially giant catalytic converters on the stacks and it ended the visual smoke, particulates basically. Did the same for us here as emission controls on cars, trucks,planes and trains did for Southern California and that was clean the air. I remember us laughing all of it off as a plan with no results to be gained, but we were wrong, the dark haze of the skies dissipated in both of these states to a noticeable degree. The river carries no fish below the mine but that is credited to non fish friendly levels of natural minerals being introduced in larger than normal amounts. The only reason I believe that statement is the lot of folks I grew up with aren't dead as we swam and drank the waters of the river all summer for years as well as everyday after school in hot weather. So I think the practice of buying pollution rights should be stopped after a limited grace period where no effort is shown to correct the problem.

Sadly the rulers are for sale and people don't care enough to follow through with efforts to stop it in many cases. It is a testament to the extreme left, that as bad as I think they are, there exists some good to their madness. So we just need a healthy balance between the left and right to move forward in a manner that serves everyone. It's like in business, if I think your not paying enough, and you think your paying to much, we are probably at the right price. 50

Cool hub brother :)