FANCY SOME DEFORMED GENITALS?

NO, I'M NOT ASKING YOU FOR A DATE. I'M LETTING YOU KNOW ABOUT A DOCUMENTARY ON POLLUTION WHICH AIRS NATIONWIDE ON PBS TONIGHT. IN NYC, PBS IS ON CHANNEL 13.

I was listening to a radio show on which an environmentalist was claiming that while the Earth Days in the 1970's had huge turn-outs, pollution no longer shocked people. I suppose people are more inclined to focus on global warming these. But the expert interviewed today claimed that extensive studies on fish and frogs were uncovering extensive deformities, some due to copper from tires which finds it's way into our water stream. And that the deformities would begin slowly developing in humans as well. Maybe those campy sci-fi horror films with atomic mutants weren't so far off base. I didn't take notes on the radio program and I'm not really a science buff, but this documentary does sound fascinating--and disturbing. And I did just watch a CNN segment about the death of the crabbing industry so I don't think the claims of extensive pollution problems are being made only by lefty alarmists.

FROM WNET:

More than three decades after the Clean Water Act , two iconic waterways -- the great coastal estuaries of Puget Sound and the Chesapeake Bay -- are in perilous condition. With polluted runoff still flowing in from industry, agriculture and massive suburban development, scientists fear contamination to the food chain and drinking water for millions of people. A growing list of endangered species is also threatened in both estuaries.

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Wed Apr 22nd at 8am on WLIW World
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