By now we’ve all seen numerous videos of the massive piles of toxic debris created by the coastal storm surges and torrential downpours from hurricanes Helene and Milton.
Absolutely, positively 💯 spot on. I graduated a year after you Kyle and we never had anything plastic in the house. And growing up with adults who lived through the Great Depression absolutely everything was reused or repurposed or recycled by Mother Nature until it fell apart. This ‘save a tree, save the planet’ and use plastic is the biggest scam ever. As well as the ‘planned obsolescence’ of just about everything now. Thank you for this (depressing) truth.
Common sense and 'Old-School' resourcefulness are the enemy of those of the territory that became the U.S. already fought in the Revolution, War of 1812 as well as other skirmishes.
The last thing the Nazi Uniparty Demon Worshiping Pedophiles, Cannibals and Vampires desire for their slaves is 'SELF-SUFFICIENCY' and independence.
A 'Target-Rich Environment' filled with innocent babies and children to ritually torture, rape and murder having helpless/hopeless, anxiety-ridden, weak, illiterate, disease-ridden and poverty-stricken parents is the goal here.
Really, Kyle...Too radical. Must get back into that box and cling to narrative meme propaganda the Demons of the Eastern Corridor cultivate to maturity in the goofy.
Yep... One example of how great AmeriKKKa is: all the innumerable coups that AmeriKKKa and the CIA orchestrated and still are orchestrating today - and then conditioning people to blame the immigrants for pouring in over our borders, fleeing for their lives under brutal repressive US-installed dictatorship regimes and climate change caused by War - all kinds of war - on us and the planet - including geo engineering, EMF warfare, and all the rest. As more and more people resist, the stakes will get higher and the warfare will be much worse.
You are so right. We live in a plastic world and it has become a cancer. It grows exponentially. Everything is wrapped in plastic, often many layers. I am 75 so I grew up before plastic as well. Strangely, we managed without it. But the marketing geniuses of the Corporate world did not and plastic is their go to, their pretty shiny and colorful packages and products that just keep piling up and piling up. We do not see the damage until a disaster hits. I refuse to drink bottled water or bottled anything in plastic but it is everywhere. Even my environmentally sensitive relatives have fallen for the spell of convenience. My pregnant niece will not drink anything caffeinated but feeds her toddler son applesauce out of squeeze tubes. We have been led down the garden path to our destruction.
You are right also in that we cannot reform those institutions which were designed to protect our health but have become the perpetrators. We do not need revolutions and overthrowing of the old as revolutions mean we come full circle, back to where we were. Fuller's words ring loud and clear. We need to build something new and better, or incorporate the old technologies which used to serve us so well. When there is a will, there is a way. We have the ability if we can keep the mindset of profit over everything at bay.
Great article overall, however you seem to have missed two fatal parts in your water filter and solar powered Well solution.
Such hand held filters/emergency straws, or Gravity Filters etc, cannot ever remove such TOXIC BOMBS from the water that you are referring to. The toxins from bacterial decay of dead animals and human corpses, will also not be magically filtered out. All those chemicals will not be removed by such filtering systems in theory. Only distillation will do that. Which requires power, or fire sources to distil enough water, or adequate sunshine for Solar Powered Water Distillers.
The Wells, will also now be drawing their water, from the groundwater table, which is also now totally polluted, with all these toxins you mention. So all those wells are also screwed I would bet.
Correct me if wrong, but all such filters make claims to remove 99% of BACTERIA (not their toxins), Parasites, and cough cough Viruses (which have not been adequately proven to "Exist"). Most cannot even remove Fluoride, let alone the dangerous chemicals/heavy metals/plastic poisons, you have covered. Most such products would still advise to make DAMN SURE, that you are not filtering water downstream of some dead animal, or chemical plants pollution, as the filters simply wont cut the mustard to remove those deadly contaminants for certain.
So taking a "HOW DARE YOU!" Greta Thunberg attitude, to some additional plastic water bottles, with actual clean water in them, at this time of this disaster, seems a rather moot point for now.
Those are all legitimate points. I pondered covering some of those issues in this post, but it was already long. Let me quickly address some of them here (I may address them in more detail in another post since the issue will remain for some time).
Having put in 3 wells on 3 different farms and drinking water from them for the last 45 years, I have some experience with wells. Wells in questionable areas may be fine or, not. A lot depends on the percolate strata. Wells can be tested to determine safety, but generally speaking, wells that are upstream from debris fields should be fine.
True, most cheap filters will not remove chemicals. And even the most expensive filters cannot remove all traces of chemicals in heavily contaminated water. However, by now most of the streams and rivers in the affected region are running fairly clean and will no longer be heavily contaminated, unless they're downstream of some ongoing heavy contamination. A good quality water filter will remove most of the remaining contaminates, biological and chemical. Here are some that will and some that will not. There are even better ones than these.
Personally, if was living in Western NC and had lost my house (but still had my land) and my only options were to either become dependent on someone delivering questionable, energy intensive (delivered from who knows where), bottled water every week, or become self sufficient by drinking water filtered with a good quality filter from a nearby clean running stream, I wouldn't hesitate to take the filtered stream water. I've learned too much about the polymer contaminates in plastic water bottles.
If I was upstream from debris fields and I had a solar powered well, I would now be sharing my well water with all of my neighbors.
Thanks for your detailed reply Kyle and sharing your extensive experience. I am glad I was not going mad in my thinking though and you have clarified my downstream points, would indeed be valid concerns. I did not dislike your thinking at all, and I agree plastic bottled anything is poison, even if they removed BPA plastics (still used in White Composite Dental Filling materials btw as BIS-GMA, so stick to Glass Ionomer inert ones, or ceramic/metal inlay/onlays where possible). I am glad to hear the downstream water quality is clearing, and agree the fallout from these events, is a long legacy ahead, just as with East Palestine Ohios train disaster. Which had a 1 to 1^10 chance of having a movie of same disaster, set in same town. It is many Quintillions to one odds, that that real event was by chance! These recent NC and TN events and many globally reek of very foul play. Stay safe out there dude :)
Another great post. It was around 2013 that I eliminated almost all plastic from my life. Especially my food. I started remembering what we always did when I was a kid and most products came in glass or metal containers (I know metal has issues as well). We saved glass jars! We stored our leftovers in them, etc. I haven't regretted limiting plastic usage at all. It's almost impossible to eliminate plastic from our lives completely, but it is absolutely doable to reduce it by 80 percent or more. It saves a ton of money as well! I also invested in dozens and dozens of canning jars and a sealer where I can transfer certain dry goods from plastic to glass immediately and seal it up. Many dry goods will keep for *years* in glass when it is sealed and will taste exactly the same as the day you put it in the jar. No bugs can get to it, moisture can't damage it, etc. We live in an age now where, unfortunately, people like myself are becoming a rarity. We still remember how we did things back "in the day" when all of these so-called "conveniences" were not available to the extent they are now. As always, when I hear someone ask, "what can I do?" about the things going on in this world I often point to the myriad of ways we can affect real change without feeling like we need to change the whole world. Sorry if I got a bit off topic from your post! *There are things we can do* to change the world and we can do it one person and one thing at a time. We have to stop making excuses and looking to a great leader to get things on track. We already know what to do and if not there are people like myself and Kyle that know dozens, if not hundreds, of ways in which we can grasp liberty for ourselves just by not participating in the crap that our society has normalized over the last 60 years or longer. Thanks for letting me say my 2 cents. :)
Thanks, Kyle. My post-war parents learned frugality the hard way (Europe in wartime). Ration books didn't end until 9 years after the war ended. My mother always kept a stocked larder, "just in case" - meaning just in case war broke out again. Like you, I grew up without plastic. While plastic has given us a multitude of technological innovation and convenience, its toxic payoff is not worth it, as you clearly show.
We're so deep into it now, from production to use to pollution, I doubt we can change it. Recycling is a joke. I heard not too long ago that only 5% of recycling is actually recycled. The rest is either burned or dumped in landfill. I also heard that the majority of Italy's trash was shipped to Germany, who then shipped it to China. The labor and shipping costs must be astronomical, so someone is turning a profit.
I would say more profit is made from production and "disposal" of toxic synthetic chemicals than from any so-called "Green" initiative, which is its own scam.
It would be easy to say, We're all f*cked. While that may be true, it's not completely true. I still hold out for better choices we make individually and together. There's still hope if we try. But not if we give up.
Water filtration and purification systems should be given to the people indeed rather than all of those plastic water bottles. It is monstrous how much time and energy is wasted on all of those pallets of water plus all of the energy spent carrying water bottles with you. This is just another example of where they want dependency on their system of doing things...
Good point. Most have been programmed to think that bottled water is the only solution. They think they are doing a good thing flying in pallets of plastic water bottles. The reality is, they're compounding an already bad situation.
Good (and depressing) article, Kyle. I've been wanting to get a small portable water filter to use in our stream, if the need arises. What brand do you use and recommend? Thanks!
It depends on your use. The one I have was made for backpacking, so it's quite small. It must be nearly 40 years old. The technology has improved greatly in that time. Here are some good ones to consider.
Absolutely, positively 💯 spot on. I graduated a year after you Kyle and we never had anything plastic in the house. And growing up with adults who lived through the Great Depression absolutely everything was reused or repurposed or recycled by Mother Nature until it fell apart. This ‘save a tree, save the planet’ and use plastic is the biggest scam ever. As well as the ‘planned obsolescence’ of just about everything now. Thank you for this (depressing) truth.
Right! What ever happened to good old frugality? That's one thing I got from my depression era parents I'll never let go.
What's inside those plastic baby formula bottles is worse than the bottles themselves.
Good point.
Common sense and 'Old-School' resourcefulness are the enemy of those of the territory that became the U.S. already fought in the Revolution, War of 1812 as well as other skirmishes.
The last thing the Nazi Uniparty Demon Worshiping Pedophiles, Cannibals and Vampires desire for their slaves is 'SELF-SUFFICIENCY' and independence.
A 'Target-Rich Environment' filled with innocent babies and children to ritually torture, rape and murder having helpless/hopeless, anxiety-ridden, weak, illiterate, disease-ridden and poverty-stricken parents is the goal here.
Really, Kyle...Too radical. Must get back into that box and cling to narrative meme propaganda the Demons of the Eastern Corridor cultivate to maturity in the goofy.
That box is far too claustrophobic. Actually, its more than that. It is, as you pointed out, a target rich kill box.
You hit the 🎯! Nothing is left to chance these days, the stakes are too high! By every hook and crook!
And it's all being ramped up as we write this...
And the ironic thing is, it was probably polymer clouds that brought that amount of rain down.
Could have been...
Sorry to say, but this is Karma for Amerika !!!!
Yep... One example of how great AmeriKKKa is: all the innumerable coups that AmeriKKKa and the CIA orchestrated and still are orchestrating today - and then conditioning people to blame the immigrants for pouring in over our borders, fleeing for their lives under brutal repressive US-installed dictatorship regimes and climate change caused by War - all kinds of war - on us and the planet - including geo engineering, EMF warfare, and all the rest. As more and more people resist, the stakes will get higher and the warfare will be much worse.
You are so right. We live in a plastic world and it has become a cancer. It grows exponentially. Everything is wrapped in plastic, often many layers. I am 75 so I grew up before plastic as well. Strangely, we managed without it. But the marketing geniuses of the Corporate world did not and plastic is their go to, their pretty shiny and colorful packages and products that just keep piling up and piling up. We do not see the damage until a disaster hits. I refuse to drink bottled water or bottled anything in plastic but it is everywhere. Even my environmentally sensitive relatives have fallen for the spell of convenience. My pregnant niece will not drink anything caffeinated but feeds her toddler son applesauce out of squeeze tubes. We have been led down the garden path to our destruction.
You are right also in that we cannot reform those institutions which were designed to protect our health but have become the perpetrators. We do not need revolutions and overthrowing of the old as revolutions mean we come full circle, back to where we were. Fuller's words ring loud and clear. We need to build something new and better, or incorporate the old technologies which used to serve us so well. When there is a will, there is a way. We have the ability if we can keep the mindset of profit over everything at bay.
Plastic is part of the cheap, convenience trap. It's become so commonplace most don't even notice when they're using it.
Thank you Joanne.
Great essay Kyle. I thank you for opening my mind completely in regard to plastics. Makes me sick.
Thank you Teresa.
Although it's something I've been careful about for many years, writing this piece opened my eyes to aspects of the problem I never considered before.
Great article overall, however you seem to have missed two fatal parts in your water filter and solar powered Well solution.
Such hand held filters/emergency straws, or Gravity Filters etc, cannot ever remove such TOXIC BOMBS from the water that you are referring to. The toxins from bacterial decay of dead animals and human corpses, will also not be magically filtered out. All those chemicals will not be removed by such filtering systems in theory. Only distillation will do that. Which requires power, or fire sources to distil enough water, or adequate sunshine for Solar Powered Water Distillers.
The Wells, will also now be drawing their water, from the groundwater table, which is also now totally polluted, with all these toxins you mention. So all those wells are also screwed I would bet.
Correct me if wrong, but all such filters make claims to remove 99% of BACTERIA (not their toxins), Parasites, and cough cough Viruses (which have not been adequately proven to "Exist"). Most cannot even remove Fluoride, let alone the dangerous chemicals/heavy metals/plastic poisons, you have covered. Most such products would still advise to make DAMN SURE, that you are not filtering water downstream of some dead animal, or chemical plants pollution, as the filters simply wont cut the mustard to remove those deadly contaminants for certain.
So taking a "HOW DARE YOU!" Greta Thunberg attitude, to some additional plastic water bottles, with actual clean water in them, at this time of this disaster, seems a rather moot point for now.
Namaste & Inlak'ech
Those are all legitimate points. I pondered covering some of those issues in this post, but it was already long. Let me quickly address some of them here (I may address them in more detail in another post since the issue will remain for some time).
Having put in 3 wells on 3 different farms and drinking water from them for the last 45 years, I have some experience with wells. Wells in questionable areas may be fine or, not. A lot depends on the percolate strata. Wells can be tested to determine safety, but generally speaking, wells that are upstream from debris fields should be fine.
True, most cheap filters will not remove chemicals. And even the most expensive filters cannot remove all traces of chemicals in heavily contaminated water. However, by now most of the streams and rivers in the affected region are running fairly clean and will no longer be heavily contaminated, unless they're downstream of some ongoing heavy contamination. A good quality water filter will remove most of the remaining contaminates, biological and chemical. Here are some that will and some that will not. There are even better ones than these.
https://waterfilterguru.com/best-portable-water-filters/
Personally, if was living in Western NC and had lost my house (but still had my land) and my only options were to either become dependent on someone delivering questionable, energy intensive (delivered from who knows where), bottled water every week, or become self sufficient by drinking water filtered with a good quality filter from a nearby clean running stream, I wouldn't hesitate to take the filtered stream water. I've learned too much about the polymer contaminates in plastic water bottles.
If I was upstream from debris fields and I had a solar powered well, I would now be sharing my well water with all of my neighbors.
Thanks for your detailed reply Kyle and sharing your extensive experience. I am glad I was not going mad in my thinking though and you have clarified my downstream points, would indeed be valid concerns. I did not dislike your thinking at all, and I agree plastic bottled anything is poison, even if they removed BPA plastics (still used in White Composite Dental Filling materials btw as BIS-GMA, so stick to Glass Ionomer inert ones, or ceramic/metal inlay/onlays where possible). I am glad to hear the downstream water quality is clearing, and agree the fallout from these events, is a long legacy ahead, just as with East Palestine Ohios train disaster. Which had a 1 to 1^10 chance of having a movie of same disaster, set in same town. It is many Quintillions to one odds, that that real event was by chance! These recent NC and TN events and many globally reek of very foul play. Stay safe out there dude :)
Another great post. It was around 2013 that I eliminated almost all plastic from my life. Especially my food. I started remembering what we always did when I was a kid and most products came in glass or metal containers (I know metal has issues as well). We saved glass jars! We stored our leftovers in them, etc. I haven't regretted limiting plastic usage at all. It's almost impossible to eliminate plastic from our lives completely, but it is absolutely doable to reduce it by 80 percent or more. It saves a ton of money as well! I also invested in dozens and dozens of canning jars and a sealer where I can transfer certain dry goods from plastic to glass immediately and seal it up. Many dry goods will keep for *years* in glass when it is sealed and will taste exactly the same as the day you put it in the jar. No bugs can get to it, moisture can't damage it, etc. We live in an age now where, unfortunately, people like myself are becoming a rarity. We still remember how we did things back "in the day" when all of these so-called "conveniences" were not available to the extent they are now. As always, when I hear someone ask, "what can I do?" about the things going on in this world I often point to the myriad of ways we can affect real change without feeling like we need to change the whole world. Sorry if I got a bit off topic from your post! *There are things we can do* to change the world and we can do it one person and one thing at a time. We have to stop making excuses and looking to a great leader to get things on track. We already know what to do and if not there are people like myself and Kyle that know dozens, if not hundreds, of ways in which we can grasp liberty for ourselves just by not participating in the crap that our society has normalized over the last 60 years or longer. Thanks for letting me say my 2 cents. :)
Lots of great information Rob D. Thank you for all of that.
Another beaut is ‘vegan leather’ !! Virtue signalling about more plastic.
I forgot about that. Thank you GT&B.
Thanks, Kyle. My post-war parents learned frugality the hard way (Europe in wartime). Ration books didn't end until 9 years after the war ended. My mother always kept a stocked larder, "just in case" - meaning just in case war broke out again. Like you, I grew up without plastic. While plastic has given us a multitude of technological innovation and convenience, its toxic payoff is not worth it, as you clearly show.
We're so deep into it now, from production to use to pollution, I doubt we can change it. Recycling is a joke. I heard not too long ago that only 5% of recycling is actually recycled. The rest is either burned or dumped in landfill. I also heard that the majority of Italy's trash was shipped to Germany, who then shipped it to China. The labor and shipping costs must be astronomical, so someone is turning a profit.
I would say more profit is made from production and "disposal" of toxic synthetic chemicals than from any so-called "Green" initiative, which is its own scam.
It would be easy to say, We're all f*cked. While that may be true, it's not completely true. I still hold out for better choices we make individually and together. There's still hope if we try. But not if we give up.
I have to agree with all of that Navyo. Thank you.
Water filtration and purification systems should be given to the people indeed rather than all of those plastic water bottles. It is monstrous how much time and energy is wasted on all of those pallets of water plus all of the energy spent carrying water bottles with you. This is just another example of where they want dependency on their system of doing things...
Good point. Most have been programmed to think that bottled water is the only solution. They think they are doing a good thing flying in pallets of plastic water bottles. The reality is, they're compounding an already bad situation.
Good (and depressing) article, Kyle. I've been wanting to get a small portable water filter to use in our stream, if the need arises. What brand do you use and recommend? Thanks!
It depends on your use. The one I have was made for backpacking, so it's quite small. It must be nearly 40 years old. The technology has improved greatly in that time. Here are some good ones to consider.
https://waterfilterguru.com/best-portable-water-filters/
Thanks so much for the link, Kyle! I really appreciate it.
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