“When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realise that one cannot eat money,” -Cree Proverd.
Yes', they have been digging for '''gold and rubies''' then storing them into banks. This leaves great holes in the earth; disturbing the eco system, they do not know that the animals and our environment are our real gold.
This shit train only going for so long. 😢 our children's children WILL Pay the price. If something can be charge it will be. Fred I'll buy your way to the Whitehouse, but u need to look the other way when I need you too. 188% how it goes. You or I can do NOTHING ABOUT IT.
Been on the bay all my life. None of this is exaggerated. In the 70s when my dad was a kid you could see six feet down, now you're lucky to see six inches. 400 years ago you could see the bottom in the deepest parts of the bay.
I grew up in the 70s and would go in the summer to the Chesapeake and dont ever remember seeing 6 ft or 6 inches down in that brown water. But there was lots of crabs and channel catfish.
For the fact that she said in the first one minute of the video “if it would kill animals it could kill you” is where your answer lies. Had we cared to protect those animals unconditionally, and lived harmoniously with nature we wouldn’t have reached here.
for 26 years i sprayed PFOS across the globe. the last contact i had was over twenty years ago. i recently had my blood tested for 40 different types of PFAS. of those tested i have six. the test shows i still have 16.15 ng/mL of PFOS (firefighting foam) in my blood. PFOS is an endocrine disruptor. i recently had my cancerous thyroid removed. ive had two basal cell carcinomas removed from my face and shoulder. i have high cholesterol that is not controlled by diet and/or exercise. pay attention. it's only getting worse.
@@solomontillman1574 i and every other firefighter who used/uses it over the past 60 years. untold millions of gallons of poison. we legally poisoned the world's water supply. and your tax dollars paid us and are paying for our healthcare and expenses. dont blame us. we were lied to just like you were. we were told it was "...as safe as dishwashing liquid...". guess what? stop washing your dishes.
@@solomontillman1574 But I'm sure he was not told that. He was probably lied to and told he was saving the planet. Just like they lie now and tell you the jab is 100% safe and 100% effective. That climate change is a real thing and your cow farts are the reason.
@@solomontillman1574 I think this person recognizes that... This was over 20 years ago. I'm sure if they knew how harmful it was they wouldn't have even exposed themselves to it let alone spray it everywhere, which I'm sure was part of their job not their personal choice. That comment really wasn't necessary
I can't wrap my head around what we humans are doing to mother earth and to the humans that live here. My husband is a Marine. He was stationed near camp Lejeune first he was diagnosed with leukemia in 2002 now about 3 years ago he was diagnosed with lymphoma. I've been going through this crap with him every step of the way. This last round has crushed his spirit. I don't know what to do anymore!
Jacques-Yves Cousteau stated in his documentary films back in the 1960s and 1970s that the Chesapeake Bay's destruction due to contamination, would be the last warning that the oceans were next. And once the oceans were contaminated, all of life in earth would be in the balance. Earth is finite. Pollution for greed is insane.
My bother in-law has his pilots license . We flew to McMinnville from Seattle, which is not far at all by plane. But, we mostly went along the coast, ir somewhat in. And as beautiful as this area is, the thing that stood out was all the pollution in the wetland areas. We flew quite low, and you could see the trails from farms, and industrial areas that would lead out towards the larger bodies of water, then out to sea. It was quite depressing! That was about 30 years ago, and i can only imagine that things are far worse.
Being from Michigan, I grew up understanding and later appreciating "fresh" water. Only as an adult, then I finally learn that our state's leaders have no concept of how wonderful this resource is and that it should be protected. Algal blooms, agri-waste etc., have just about ruined the world's 5th largest source of fresh water. We might as well dump several thousand tons of salt in it for the way we manage it.
@@natas74d7 yeah because not wanting all the animals to die as an indicator of our future health is some woke lefty liberal bullshit right??? We learned better than that in the 8th grade. Just because both sides hate each other there are still inherit bad things in the world. Fuk your politics. Fuk my politics. maybe we could work together on stuff. If nothing else just to spite each other 😂 for forcing one another to work together towards something decent outside of politics. Btw I'm a white dude born and raised in the south on a farm. I can barely spell my middle name but would still offer any help I can. Whatever little thing that may be. And if it was working for good, I would work with the most far-right Nazi piece of shit or the most far-left insane green-haired pinko liberal. Happily. Science is outside of politics. I understand that's controversial and it's not true in all cases... Ken Ham and his "science" for example. And I'm making that comment as a lifelong Christian. But if you learned anything about the scientific method... It really isn't hard to understand peer-reviewed studies and vetted science. I know it's scary especially to my fellow single brain celled organisms... But it is possible I promise you. If I can do it a five-year-old could too
Ignore the Morons. You are a True HUMAN BEING. Been trying to save the wildlife for decades. Most people can't see past their own whims. When all the animals have gone, people will finally get it through their thick skulls that they can't eat money and that they are Next ! Like how they used to use a canary in the mineshafts. If the air was poison, the bird would die. Anyone with half a brain would then know enough to change their direction. If the bees die off, people have a mere decade or two, before they die of starvation. Those animals are the ultimate & final indicators of our own demise. Proud to share the planet with folks like You, Marsha Beatty !!! 🦊🦍🐯🦝🐫🐼🦩🐧🐦
I was stationed in the DC area two time and served about 7 years there. Both times I used my Berkey at home, changing my filters every 2 months, for all my cooking and drinking needs and when out and about I always carried and drank bottled water. I Retired and came home. I can't believe 25 years later, after all these years nothing has changed... and it has gotten worse.
I moved from the pollution back east and sought better environmental management. My faucet water comes from glacier melt. I'm old and won't be alive when that faucet flow is scheduled to become a memory.
@@mikelubin148 I was hoping there would have been a response to your comment... I'm not fully educated on the flag Denise has, but have a mild understanding of it. There certainly are many examples of over-regulation that comes down to mainly a form of additional taxation than safety/benefit although!
Former Stafford county resident here. Grew up off a creek leafing to the Potomac river. I remember them dredging my back yard creek as a child and going boating/fishing. In the mid 90s there was plenty of pollution. A constant oil slick and very murky water. Plenty of trash. No one was willing to swim in it. Hope things get better.
"...we don't care enough" sadly that is so true for so many. Thank GOoDness for the courageous organizers, activists, politicians, reporters and citizens that do care and do something about it - here in the US and around the world!
This documentary should be required viewing in all colleges and universities, along with other documentaries dealing with environmental concerns. It should be viewed in corporate boardrooms, town meetings in rural and urban communities. The burgeoning populations of the WORLD need to be informed as to the critical state of our ecosystems! For the survival of our own species, and the other forms of life we share this planet with (and upon which we depend for our own survival) we need a well-informed populace that will concede the necessity for drastic changes in our way of living and working. Without the political will to make the necessary changes, it won't happen soon enough. Without a well-informed public to press the politicians into action, we are dooming ourselves. Thank you - all of you - who participated in the making of this excellent video. You are doing critical work for the safety and future of all of us! 💜🖖♥️☮👍
I remember when I was a girl very little and Native American Indian had a cheer coming from his eye and there was trash everywhere even the Native American tried to tell us that we were destroying America we didn't listen we would go camping and fishing a lot but I would always clean up after us and take the trash home not let it get into the water
Its always fun to listen to zigzag answers from politicians, lawyers or big company representatives. The clearer we know their involvement, the funnier the answer. Never gets old
Mr. Sims is a pioneer in thought in concept and environmental prophecy who will be thanked in generations yet to come. That is a fantastic strategy to reduce and manage sprawl and continued development clearing forestry. the ecosystem HAS to STAY BALANCED.
I am from the Midwest. Whenever I was an OTR trucker, I remember being in PA and seeing signs “Entering Chesapeake Bay Watershed”. I always took it be mindful of your potential pollution. I really didn’t realize how hypocritical that sign was.
My compliments, to Mr Sims, and the great work he's doing. Also to Frontline, for this excellent production, calling attention to this serious problem.
Yep! Thanks baby boomers! Keep it up! I love watching the downfall of not only our civilization and our species, but the planet as a whole! I wonder if I'll outlive the planet?....
@@williamyoung9401 You can not blame this on the baby boomers. They demonstrated about this but big corporations are still left to pollute our water ways. We pay taxes to clean up the Chesapeake Bay but it will do no good if Corporations are not Regulated for pollution!
@@williamyoung9401 If you watched this video, which I did, you would realize that Reagan did away with the regulations and the Clean Water Act which has caused this terrible problem. Big companies save big bucks from Not following the regulations for clean water! Republican politicians all care more about giving big business breaks then on keeping our environment healthy and clean for the people that support them?then?! In a Domocracy politicians work for the people that voted for them not for Big Corporations.
After watching this Documentary I now understand why there are so many more gay as well as lesbian teen ages growing up these days. If chemicals in our water cause this problem in fish, etc. that are in the water they effect humans too. I guess we are doomed?! Sad indeed.
my sense is you would not love to see it remember Trump pretty much completely dismantled the EPA. I think if anything this can give you some up front look as to why they wanted to do that - make america toxic again
update- in the thirteen years since this documentary was aired the EPA has not taken action to curb the growing pollution amounts and sources. the problems continue to increase as consumerism grows with the ever-growing population that is continually bombarded with "newer better faster more convenient easier prettier stronger water proof dust proof stain proof nonstick no muss no fuss" advertising of "the latest and greatest" products that will end up in a landfill or on/in the ground where they'll ll seep their toxicity further. it's never going to get better. we have seen to that.
26:00. That chicken manure could be mixed with hay or compost and be good organic plant fertilizer. But commercial chemical fertilizer is cheaper and easier to use. It always comes down to 💰
Stay strong, Mr. Simms! I live in Florida. There are so many homes here… not safe to eat the fish from most places if you go fishing. Sadly, I’m watching acres of beautiful land being bulldozed to build more condos or apartments near Pvt. Emory Bennett park. Like we need more people to move to FL. 🙄🥹More traffic. The men are getting to work right now at 6:22 am. No one cares. We need someone like you in Volusia County!❤🎉🎉❤
It's a global crisis; humans populate like locusts, just in a slower motion degradation of the land they occupy. 1-child per family should be law for many decades into the future then 2-child after for many centuries... You list the problem; nobody ever mentions any solutions... I give the solution! If my solution became law, then retirement benefits would need a drastic change immediately for economic reason, but absolutely possible! Any country not following law, shall be denied immigration and resource importation tariffs.
My Husband has worked in the Aerospace industry for his entire adult career. From SPAWAR (The Space and Naval Warfare Command) when he was in the Navy (and for many years after he retired, as a Civilian), a couple of others after he left SPAWAR, to his current career with Barnes Aerospace (here in Western Massachusetts.) Truth is, the Aerospace industry is responsible for some of THE MOST toxic chemical pollutants in manufacturing. The regulations and methods have improved GREATLY over the last several decades, but these chemicals are thus far, indispensable in the industry. True that they're some of THE MOST toxic chemicals in manufacturing, but also true that Aerospace machinery (especially airplane/space machinery parts) wouldn't and couldn't be as strong as they are, without the use of these chemicals. They're literally " baked" and painted into the parts and components in the manufacturing process. Also factual that modern society wouldn't work the way it does without some MAJOR changes and breakthroughs in terms of "man made" chemistry and it's role in manufacturing and the usage of things from military & space industry, to everyday, mundane products. (As the narrator said, right down to things like toothpaste, for example.) The truth of the matter is that without some very SERIOUS changes in the way we do things, this nightmare can't and won't change. True that regulations have helped significantly in recent decades, but also true that while how the usage and disposal of many of these things have seen serious improvement, we ARE STILL utilizing these toxic things AND environmental cleanup of many of these contaminated areas, has STILL not happened on a significant enough level to see any real improvement. MANY of the most serious "Superfund" sites (and almost EVERY place my Husband has ever been employed since his days in the Navy, have been "Superfund" sites) are owned and maintained by the military, the civilian ones are by and large, places that manufacture things for use in the military. Though civilian manufacturing is no less toxic. It's just that military industry is PARTICULARLY bad. We also DESPERATELY need to get our priorities in order. As long as we're doing things like sending BILLIONS of $$ we DON'T HAVE to spare, to places like Ukraine to propagate WAR instead of directing those funds to CLEAN UP the mess the war industry has made (as most of these "Superfund" sites have been labeled thus, and in desperate need of THOROUGH clean up, for DECADES), things will only continue to deteriorate.
As much as I care about the environment and recognize the devastation of environmental exploitation, I can’t help but potentially validate some of the fundage that goes to particular countries during crises- it could be bigger immediate problems if we didn’t perhaps, I don’t know.. but yeah we definitely need to allocate more money to the environment- we’re a mess. The dwindling and degrading of resources is going to worsen future wars unfortunately.
Na zalost dok se Senat,Kongres, vlada itd ne prociste od korumpiranih politicara i raznih lobija (Lobiranje = Korupcija) nista od ciscenja planete..to je jedina istina jer kako objasniti recimo dozvoljenu kolicinu arsena u djecijoj hrani..Cuj dozvoljena kolicina otrova u hrani za djecu????
I grew up on Virginia's beaches in the 1970's and 80's. I live in NY but summered with my grandma on Virginia Beach. It was incredible back then. It has been built up ten fold since then. Last time I was there it was a disgrace. I couldn't wrap my head around what had changed. What a horror !
I had the privilege of vacationing there in the late 80s as a young adult. Haven't been back since. Sad to see that human beings seem no wiser than some animals, crapping in their own living space.
I’ve lived in Maryland my whole life. There is a lot of money dumped into the Bay Restoration Foundation - from license plates, to fees charged on our water bills. One has to wonder wth that money goes!😡
I live in Ohio . Down the street from one of the 7 Great lakes, Lake Erie. The mayor is trying to get federal funding to remove lead pipes below. Which is not the problem. It's pollution. Climate change., Etc. Fresh Walleye fish is well known in Lake Erie. Good eating
Exactly. All you care about is MONEY! And that's why we have frogs with 6 legs and massive die off. Maybe start taxing the POLLUTERS instead of regular people? It's all part of the plan. You get taxed, you get angry, and then nothing gets done...
Rosemary Angela , The money goes into the open pockets of the Liberal Democrats. You can safely bet that people such as John Kerry will not have to give up their private jets nor their gasoline powered Rolls Royces.
@@williamyoung9401 you going to tax China or other nations of people of color. That's waycist,and the biggest polluter is the U.S. Government and regulations and paperwork have hurt the environment more than it helped. The poster was pointing out how rich people have gotten from supposedly helping the environment.
this was filmed in 2009... think anythings been done since? NOPE only gotten worse - people don't care enough they care more about keeping up with the Kardashians
Living in the rural pacific NW it does get to me how many of my fellow land owners are the WORST caretakers of the environment. I've seen thousands of pristine healthy forest acres turn into garbage heaps, unproductive pasture, subdivided for mcmansions to spray roundup week after week on unused non native lawns. These terrible money grabbing behaviors ruin the world for everyone downstream, and those of us who eagerly try to nativise and keep healthy and beautiful our plots for the sake of posterity. So much of this wilful negligence is due to a lack of education. So many people with land don't know or don't care to learn about the complexities and importance of the environmental web. Some of them don't even believe in man made climate change for shits sake. Uuugh, I hate restrictive regulations on my land, but being aware of other people, and their sick greed and carelessness, I completely understand why we need restrictions and regulations. They are the only defense against people fully ravaging the natural, clean water world. Frankly its not enough.
Permaculture, regenerative agriculture etc. These are our only way forward to resolve the damage we've done and recover our land and planet. It's not too late but we are getting close! Good luck with what you do with your land and the impact you may have on your neighbors.😉💞
King Charles is ruining an entire COUNTRY this way. his neo-colonialist policies about shipping poor Britons over to Australia has been causing the same type of problems you mention --- cutting down whole Eucalyptus forests and digging more coal mines. their ignorant cultural farming practices have pushed out the indigenous people, leading to ridiculous and dangerous wildlife mismanagement and wildfires.
Here in Alaska we stopped fishing for crab in our area for five years. The population came back up to over normal. Went from maybe 1 in the pot to 15 in the pot. In five years of leaving the bay alone. We halted all fishing. Not just commercial. Also: We have a few EPA people buried here. According to local lore.
That's very different than the situation down here in the states with all the non-point sources of pollution. Just ignore it though, we can get clean water from plastic bottles, right?
“When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realise that one cannot eat money,” Cree Native American proverb
LOL! If there is one thing we have plenty of, it's trees. There are not enough mills. The mills can pay low prices for trees because there are so many, then sell the lumber for a killing. Proof: pulpwood $7.00 per ton. Chip-n-saw $18.00 per ton. Saw logs, $30.00 or so per ton if you find someone to pay you for them!
@@richard6719You are comparing apples to oranges. Passenger pigeons were hunted faster than they were replaced. Trees are planted in greater numbers than they are cut. Example: in 2020 I had around 20,000 loblolly pines harvested. This year I had 64,000 planted. We have 668 thousand acres of forest land in Alabama, 183 acres of which are mine!
@@tmo4330 I will concede to your point about the passenger pigeons as they were wiped out faster than they could reproduce. I live in Washington state and I am sure you are aware of the forest in this region. Areas like Indonesia, So america, Malaysia, West Indies, many Asian countries are being deforested at a rate the size of rhode island every year for the last 30years and are NOT being replanted with trees. In this state the only trees that are being replanted are the ones with quick(relatively) commercial value. Losing much of its biodiversity that so much other life depends on. But who gives a shit right. Also I lived in Alabama and Georgia for several years and there too it’s losing some of its biological diversity….. on a side note I am very envious of your 183 acres and it sounds like you take great pride in your land. I only have 15 acres. But land costs here is astronomically high compared to the entire east coast and Midwest.
I worked on an oil tow as a young man. When we visited the facility at Oil City, Texas we were warned. If we went overboard we wound have to be rushed to the E. R. for a full body decontamination. Scary stuff.
@@shawnpattison8451 Sorry for misspelling would. An "oil tow" is tow boat that pushes petroleum barges. We ran the Intra Coastal Waterway. Usually from New Orleans to Oil City, Texas. Just inland a few miles from the Gulf of Mexico.
@@richardhowe5583 Actually it extends from Florida to Texas it is a commercial water way. It is not intended for public use. Because it is constantly used by push type tugs and is narrow it is of little recreational value. It is called The Intra - Coastal Waterway. I haven't been on it in years and and I am not aware of it's present status.
I was a conservative all of my adult life. As a child I remember the Exxon Valdez in Alaska, and it bothered me, though I didn't fully understand the dynamics of that situation. As an adult, the thing that changed my mind politically was the BP oil nightmare in the Gulf. Watching that oil gushing into the ocean made me furious. We're not going to stop using oil, and the products made from oil...but there are too many risks involved in many of our industrial enterprises and we need leadership that will stop trying to destroy the other party, and do what is right.
I can't even watch the coverage of the worlds rivers drying up. I am at ease withy own death. It is my children and grandchildren that my heart cries out for. All of the catastrophes have broken my heart. The Gulf oil one was terrifying. The dry rivers I can't even watch.
I am totally sick and tired of the Republican party continously backing the rich corporations, including all fossil fuel industries. Furthermore, the Republicans are anti-science, pro-pollution, climate change deniers! They have no remorse for our future generations. 😔
I was a liberal when I was young, and have been a conservative since I was old enough to see what was really going on. That said- you are exactly right, we need our representatives to do what we demand instead of simply opposing the other party (and citizens to remember that only the lobbyists and politicians win when we fight each other). We don’t have to be from a certain political party to want to conserve both the health of our economy and the health of our Earth. And I wish other countries who are massive, massive polluters were held to at least the same standards as the US.
Algae blooms are becoming common in MN due to the huge explosion of turkey farms. Unreal how those farms smell from miles away. No homes are placed near these turkey barns. You'll often find 8 or more turkey barns lined up and no homes with-in 1+ square mile(s). The lakes in the spring aren't nearly as bad as the turkey manure overwinters and freezes over the top in heaping piles of manure. Farm fields absorb some of it and they pay a big penny for the turkey poo 💩 too! So not only are these companies profiting from the sales of the turkeys, they also make money off the turkey "litter" poo. However by July, in the high heat, the turkey litter starts moving and flowing untreated into MN lakes, green and brown algae blooms form everywhere. Any lake under 1,500 acres and with-in 15 miles of these turkey barns are doomed. Dogs have died from inhaling, drinking, swimming in these infested waters and believe me by August these bodies of water stink.
I remember driving by pig farms in central Indiana in 1983 while on vacation.We were driving from Indianapolis to Chicago in August.The stench of the farms was unreal. I am surprised I was not a vegetarian from that age.
Vincent , Who is it that wants cheap ( if inferior ) turkey at Thanksgiving and Christmas ? You ?? You could buy turkey from a local small farmer. A farmer that will most likely compost the turkey poo to be used upon his fields and gardens. However , the first thing that you will likely say is that they cost more . Well , yes , superior products do often cost more. On the other hand how much will it cost you in increased taxes to clean up the lakes and rivers ? Taxes that will last for a long time. If those taxes are actually used to clean up the water. Mn. is a Democrat state. Democrats have open pockets when it comes to diverting tax money. I have chickens that freerange. Their poo is spread out over their area on the ground. Every time it rains their poo is gone. It's amazing how quickly and green the grass grows. The chickens can barely keep up with the grass. However , I sometimes lose a free range chicken to a hawk. I can not sustain that loss without charging more for my chickens. But , when you eat one of my chickens , or the eggs , you will never mistake it for a supermarket product.
I read in a book about: Turkey Pollution! It was from their scratching the ground, eating and then the wind would blow a big dust cloud > huge dust cloud, with feces etc.! From the large crowded feeding grounds!😐😐😐😐😮😮😮😣😥😀😑
Great documentary. As much as I know each one of us must take responsibility for the way we live with respect to the earth, it is difficult not to be angry with these huge companies that bought up all of their competitors, a small group of people with an overload of testosterone who want to be the BIGGEST and stretch far and wide with their business reach, regardless of whether it is hurting people, the quality is definitely compromised, and the pollution is concentrated in such a way that it cannot possibly be managed without dire consequences. I watched a video 20 odd years ago called Food, Inc.. Once upon a time before Tyson and their gluttonous growth that makes no sense at all, there were approximately 150 small farms that supplied their local grocers in the US. Now there are 2 farms, Tyson and Purdue. Food cannot be industrialized and remain healthy and sustainable, global food companies are giving us foods that are poisoned and lacking in nutrients. Our only hope is to return to the small local farms and businesses. But there have been several concerted efforts to wipe out the small players, now that we are almost completely enslaved by corporations. Please try to shop small when possible
Can't agree more. The fact is our corporate monopoly laws aren't working &/or aren't being enforced. And the practice of buying-out as many competitors as possible has spread from the oil industry all the way to our retailers, taking on everything in-between. The ability to do this is permitted by whatever politician(s) that enjoys generous "support""donations" or promises of a lucrative position for the politician to take advantage of as soon as his term is over. It's disgusting and going to cost far more than anyone wants to give any thought to. So we need to be holding ourselves accountable for who we elect.
I grew up in the Tidewater area for the majority of my life and it’s sad to see how bad things have gotten for the Chesapeake Bay. Growing up there I have so many good memories of going sailing with my dad around the Chesapeake Bay and him teaching me how to sail and fish. Even though things weren’t perfect back then,I still never thought things would eventually get that bad for the bay and for the people that counted on the bay to take care of their families and I hope and prey that it’s not to late for us to turn things around for our future as well as our childrens future.
This was published in 2009. I live in Seattle. It has gotten Way better since then in the Puget sound. Between the UW and NOAA being present here its actually been very helpful. Currently we are kicking out the fish farms and changing their regulations. Long ago Atlantic Salmon got into the Sound due to fish farming. All over the news they called all fisherman to go fish out those Atlantic salmon. There was NO limit. These things don't go away overnight though. So even though many things have changed we still need to do more. To save our local Salmon population UW has had a long running program. Where kids in elementary school get fertilized eggs and once they hatch they go to their designated stream or river to let their baby salmon out. These super fund sites are terrible. Because you have a program like that. But then you end up sending your baby salmon through these places. So we can't fix the populations if you are just sending them to their death through those sites
Nunya D watching this episode now it's May of 23 i live in Kitsap county.. all my children have been involved in that program it was awesome when they finally got to go and release the hatchlings 💯that was elementary school and my children are now😊 well my youngest are 24🙏🏾they are still proud of what they accomplished back than❤ AWESOME
Frontline has done an outstanding job in revealing how covering soil with concrete and destroying forest is one of the things killing our planet. this video ought to be used as a teaching aid in high school and college classrooms.
you collected clams that washed up on shore ? we dug them from the muck when i was a kid because there alive in the muck they only washed up on shore when they were dead
I have been proposing for the last decade that we start three brand new political parties: the land party, the ocean party, and the sky party. I believe if everyone belonged to these parties we could save the planet.
30yrs ago there used to be rules because I worked with farm inspectors ( like manure piles had to be covered with tarps allowed to age in the heat a certain period before being moved for other use).
I lived in both Stafford and Fairfax County for awhile. Being from urban Orange County, California this was then rural. I loved it! It's so very sad to see this happening to yet another part of my beautiful country. Overdevelopment is exactly what I hate about so much of California. Now this is happening to so much of the other parts of my country. And yet, people don't get it. They get angry and want to shoot people. They're selfish. Like petulant children not getting their way. With no regard for the land or other creatures or the land around them. You all should be ashamed!
Gary Armstrong , Overdevelopment is the base cause of climate change. Cut down another 1,000 acres of rainforest in the Amazon Basin and what happens is that the desert of North Africa and the Middle East grows a little more. Now reaching as far as India and western China.Remember the stories of the Middle East once known as the Fertile Cresent ? It is no more. Over time it could be once again. However , that does not fit in with the agendas of the Liberal Politicians that prefer policy's that will give more control of people. Such as forcing everyone to have electric cars which will limit the travel abilities of people. The Earth NEEDS productive grasslands and forests to sustain itself. The very grasslands that we pave over with housing developments , concrete and asphalt. We clear cut forests to provide lumber to build those housing developments. As for the chemicals that come from the huge commercial farms. The government is a working partner of those huge farms. The government passes laws which prevent competion of the small local farms that can provide much better farm products. The government works hand in glove with the huge agricultural corporations. Liberal governments around the world are working against human beings. And the Earth itself ? Hurricanes , tornados , floods , I suspect that it has begun an effort to rid itself of us pesky humans.
"Overdevelopment is exactly what I hate about so much of California." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Overdevelopment is exactly what caused the Chesapeake Bay to go under as well! About 96% of the Chesapeake Bay waterfront areas belong to private home owners and businesses. Most of what's left belong to the US military and other government agencies, leaving less than 1% for the general public to enjoy in the form of public parks. It is simply a case of the rich few buying up all the waterfront lands for themselves to deny the vast majority the chance to enjoy the bay. We all know how those home owners and businesses like to keep their lawns in immaculate condition, which means lots of pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers that run straight into the Chesapeake Bay! Then those rich fortunate few are the ones that cry the loudest at the pollution and ecological problems that are occurring, problems that they themselves are causing!
The issue with storm water runoff is still the number polluting issue here in the northeast USA. Yet it remains unaddressed certainly not in any appreciable way.
I grew up w PBS. your documentaries are so well done and It shows that it didn't hafe to get to the point is is now. Politics and Presidents can destroy our lives. We need a 3 party system . One entirely of Citizens who represent all citizens and the best interest of the entire country. I am one of many volunteer activists pushing for this change. I always learn something I did not already know which makes it easier for me & my group to show those who are easily manipulated by the Political rhetoric and media manipulation to See. thank you!
I can remember when you could visibly see jellyfish in the harbor water in downtown Baltimore. There actually use to be manatees and whales that would enter our waters here in Maryland. There was plenty of blue crab supply, even the locals could go crabbing. It's sad to see how things have taken a turn for the worse for businesses in Maryland but I must agree this documentary was well put together. I use to watch PBS for their educational and informative docs like this one. If you can, please donate to channels like this one. - much love 💕 .
🖐❤ People dont realize that they ARE the water, the soil, the animals, fish, and trees. We are one with the environment. We are the environment. The environment is us. We are all one. ❤
Monumental documentary!!! Photography spectacular!! This deserves a production award. So critical to bring the public Into this before it's too late! I t has international implications too!
I didn't grow up on the Chesapeake. I grew up on Long Island. North is the Long Island Sound, South is the Atlantic or one of a couple different bays. For me it was the south shore and the Great South Bay. Fishing, Crabbing , Boating was like a reflex. It's a disgrace that more than likely the reason it gets ignored and continues to worsen is a politician getting money to turn a blind eye to the source(s) of the pollution. I remember my friends and me would make rod holders for our bicycles to go fishing. But nothing was more fun than a kite string tied to a chicken leg and catching blue claw crabs all day in the fall. This cannot be ignored . I lived in South Florida as well for 15 years. 8 minute drive by car to the beach. There is no better way of life than being near a large body of water and using it wisely for recreation. I'm 61 and for the past 7 years and only the past 7 years have I been farther than a 10 minute from the ocean. I miss it.
" Some day the earth will weep, she will beg for her life, she will cry with tears of blood. You will make a choice, if you help her or let her die, and when she dies, you will die. " ~ John Hollow Horn, Oglala Lakota 1932
It's too late the white man thought he was civilized he thought he knew everything he didn't know he poisoned the world and death followed him he is death Behold The Pale Horse the dumbest thing to ever be allowed to be called without question.
It's heartbreaking we don't respect our Mother.She has everything we need but she needs love and respect Our Mother Earth .Greedy disrespectful people have destroyed her.We are in trouble killing and polluting our life's resources.
Awesome documentary! It would be nice to have one about municipal infrastructure; although municipal water is regularly tested & highly regulated, if it goes through corroded/dirty pipes you’re in an almost equally bad position… But bottled water = plastic waste & microplastics.Hard to win with drinking water these days…
I live in Kentucky and on top of over %50 of the lakes I grew up enjoying to fish and boat on have all dried up and are no longer in existence on top of that many of the waterways are also terribly polluted from actual rainwater runoff that causes toxic groundwater all caused by huge amounts of over farming and the vast amounts of poisonous fertilizes they use on these farms it all ends up in our waters it's terrible nothing's being done about it it's too late to reverse the damage that's been done but it's not too late to be stopped so it doesn't get any worse again nothing's being done about it sad truth.... 😔😔
I know a guy on a family farm nearby who used a diesel pump to lower a hog lagoon by pumping off excess water levels in the lagoon into a nearby creek, which ultimately fed into the cape fear River. There’s no telling how much damage he did before he got caught, but they arrested him, indicted him on state and federal charges and ordered him to pay for all clean up and restoration efforts. It was humiliating for him.. rightfully so. Lol..
The Neuse river on the East Coast, from Raleigh all the way to the ocean is so contaminated with poultry and human waste ... there was an announcement made that even TOUCHING the water can make you sick!
The pig factories in North Carolina are just as toxic to the waterways. I've been vegetarian since I saw how factory farms operate. They are deadly for our waters.
I used to live in a Cul-de sac amongst some prosperous people. They had 2-3 cars parked in their yard, after cutting down all their trees. My yard was the only one with 5 large trees. When my neighbors wanted to play dominos or just under a tree, they used to come to my yard.
Unfortunately, as of late, they no longer seek the truth but work to support narratives that align with the powers to be. Little by little, revisionist history permeates through sites like this to craft a narrative seemingly true, to those uneducated in the facts, too lazy to do so, but rife with little untruths, mischaracterizations, or glossing over facts. PBS has become an activist news, documentary site that no longer tells a story but uses the story to drive a narrative. They look great, have great orators but they all, predicable, in the end drive home a point of their design. Very subtle to egregious, Nixon, a republican founded the EPA, but he could careless about the environment, really. He hired William Doyle Ruckelshaus to be the first director of the EPA, this guy was an environmentalist, before the word was coined, and he made decisions, not based on facts, that we now know have coast the lives of millions, banning DDT. People in Africa still suffer from his decisions. Then we go to Reagan, who the claim pushed for deregulation, he did and the economy took off, but it was this deregulation that made the environment suffer. Really, Reagan hired the same hard as. environmentalist Nixon hired to set up the EPA William Ruckelshaus returned to the position from 1983 to 1985, as the fifth Administrator of the EPA, during the Reagan administration. In 1973, he was also the acting FBI Director. So, don't believe what you read because it sounds solid, it's not.
Last year in the early summer I walked along the shore of Harstine island in the south puget sound and saw hundreds of juvenile dunginess crab. As I walked through the shallow water there were so many that I had to step carefully to avoid crushing them. In 40 years here I’d never seen such a thing. I hope it means things are improving.
@@karlagarcia1851 I might be wrong. But it reminded me of a lake I swam in as a child. It was cold except for a few spots that stayed warm (not from pee. It STAYED warm. Idk why. Underground stuff). I stayed in the warm spots. Those crabs might be doing something similar (but different).
God said if we rest the Oceans and just shore fish 7 years the Oceans will REPLENISH so we all have more than enough That should be our primary objective right now not war THINK GOD
I’ve built pole barns for several poultry farming operations for Tyson. The waste produced from just two of those 200 yard long chicken sheds is unbelievable. Many of the structures we put up (buildings for equipment storage) were right next to these long sheds and the smell was indescribable. One of those sheds typically holds thousands of chickens, from the time they’re baby chicks until they’re old enough to be sent off to slaughter. I cannot imagine the pollution those poultry farms must be causing for the Chesapeake Bay. I would like to state that the farmers are not the enemy and if it is their standard for operating their farms that come into question, most are willing to improve those standards with whatever method is put into place.
We grew up on the Chesapeake. Used to love swimming right there at Terrapin Park by the Bay Bridge. A few years ago when we went back home we decided to take the kids swimming there & my husband ended up in the hospital the next morning. He'd gotten poked by a thorn while hiking the park & thought nothing of it. All the pollution of the Bay being a major shipping channel ended up causing blood poisoning. Our next trip back home was the following summer for Memorial Day weekend. Since we were in Oxford where his grandfather used to drive the ferry we took the kids down to the beach to swim. Our then 6 year old ended up in the hospital with an Ecoli infection in her kidneys that not only put her in the hospital 3 days later it almost killed her. They had to try 9 different antibiotics before they found one that saved her life. The hospital contacted Water Keepers & learned that there was a massive amount of storm run off from farmlands 3 days prior & that's what caused it. There was a high concentration of Ecoli in the water from the manure they had fertilized the fields with & all the chicken farms on the area. Now when we go home we're scared to even go beach combing or sit on any area of sand that gets submerged at high tide. Growing up on the Bay with Watermen in both our families we never thought we'd end up fearing our waterways where so many fun childhood memories were made. Not even the Listeria outbreak caused us to fear ever setting foot back in those waters. Pollution has though. Honestly we hold Gov Hogan responsible for a lot of it. The Chesapeake Bay has always been a shipping channel but it's ridiculous anymore. Last summer they even had the sister ship of the one that got stuck in the Panama Canal get stuck in the Chesapeake Bay right by the Bay Bridge. We never had ships as massive as the ones that are constantly lined up in the Bay now. There are cargo ships in the Bay now 24/7 that dwarf the Navy ships. The Bay was doing better until Hogan lifted so many restrictions on farmers & other industries that directly effects the health of the Bay that our beloved Bay will never fully recover from him. You can't allow the things he has then also permit the oysters that are the very lungs/filters for the Bay to be over fished & expect his 2 terms not to have a devasting effect on the Bay & it's tributaries that effects more states than Maryland. Especially when you could the amount of Nuclear submarine patrols because Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant is right on the Bay directly across from Taylor's. You can't have all these things on the Bay & expect it to be healthy. During Jimmy Carter my uncles had great hope for the Bay & their industry. Reagan came in & one of the 1st things he did was rip out the solar panels Jimmy Carter had installed & they knew they Bay was gonna take a hit. Especially after the restrictions Hogan's lifted & the deals he's made trying to get to the WH. Add Trump's EPA & all the water ways that empty into the Chesapeake to this entire situation & it's no wonder the Bay is dying.
The interesting thing is that nitrogen and the other wastes are very important to crop farming. Seems sad that material gets flushed into the general environment
When I was a teenager in the early 80s I would go crabbing on the Severn River that connects to the Chesapeake Bay back then you could catch a Bushel of Crabs just using hands lines off the piers on the Severn River but today you'll be lucky to catch a half dozen of crabs using hand lines off a pier! Sad but true! If you live in Maryland donate money to Save The Bay and stop buying Perdue Chicken.
It is far more than America. The whole world is in the same place. It is time to gather the chairs on the deck and the band will play 'Nearer, my God, to thee'
My Dad said he was shocked to see so many people when I took him to Gasworks Park in Seattle. He said when he was a kid he would sneak down there but that it was a contaminated area so people didn't go there and he was told not to go there by his parents.
I watched a documentary a while ago about the pig poop in North Carolina and how it's polluting the drinking water in the state. My sister lives there and didn't even know about it...
Are we lucky to live in Hawaii? So far, there are laws to prevent poisoning of waters, but I do not know if they are always obeyed. We are a tourism state, so nasty waters would drive tourists away. Nuclear waste was an issue years ago when radioactive waste was carried our way.
Eastern part of NC is flooded with corporate pig farms, Tyson, Hatfield don't support these companies or there smaller ones they own. They own most if the whole meat industry.
They say no one knew. My grandfather went for oysters in the Delaware Bay. Later I lived in Little Creek, Delaware. I bought photos of the oyster boats in Little Creek. No boats when I lived there. If filled with mud. My neighbor a commercial crabber, conch fisher and horseshoe crab fisher constantly fought to increase his harvest. It diminishes now. This article is crying wolf to those who never heard. Yeah I tried to save the bays. I was recycling and help the Bee guys. Please show the combines harvesting corn in fields miles long, 6 combines with a fleet of trucks heading to the granaries.
We like to criticize the Russians who destroy their environment with industry, but America does it in less harmful ways, you can argue "at least our pollution is mostly organic," but the truth is, we live like we can just throw our trash over the border. Nature doesn't recognize any borders, at least invisible political ones.
Anyone who gets water from a city source needs a distiller at least for drinking water. Try distilling city water and see what’s left at the bottom of the distiller and you’ll appreciate it.
I comprehend. I have a counter top Reverse Osmosis (R/O) machine that I use daily. It has a TDS meter built-in, with a digital display. It often reads 560 + coming into the machine. It's usually under 8 coming out. Changing 2 filters twice a year, 2 filters annually. The filters are working hard!
And more pollution from all those people largely collected in densely populated living areas. Eventually, we'll make large portions of the planet uninhabitable for us.
I've lived on the Puget Sound for over two decades and while the rainwater runoff is a part of the issue....the far bigger concern is the repeat dumping of massive amounts of raw sewage into Dyes Inlet and other waterways.
1. Buy cheap farmland. 2. Get the county to spend lots of taxpayer money putting in roads and other infrastructure. 3. Sell for a huge profit. 4. Complain about the taxes you pay.
Fishing isn't the problem it's all the chemicals, fertilizers and crap people put on their bodies to wash away sometimes three times a day! Industrialized farming is a major issue, but people refuse to support a local farm or grow their own food. I can't imagine since COVID how tons of hand sanitizers have been filling the water ways. Thank you for showing something with RFK, Jr., who has been blacklisted in the media.
The issue of poisoned waters is a growing environmental crisis with serious consequences for both human health and ecological systems. Toxic chemicals, heavy metals, and industrial waste are polluting vital water sources, rendering them unsafe for drinking, bathing, or supporting aquatic life. Addressing this crisis requires robust environmental regulations, comprehensive cleanup efforts, and a shift towards more sustainable practices to prevent further contamination of our precious water resources.
You are right. They just do not care, but they ought to be indicted and sentenced for willfully choosing to poison people and wildlife. There is no excuse for it.
Yes.. just ask almost anybody in Tennessee how good their water is. Especially folks in Knoxville. Of course certain people make a lot of money because of this, selling BOTTLED water, that is.
“When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realise that one cannot eat money,” -Cree Proverd.
Aurora made a song about that quote.
Yes', they have been digging for '''gold and rubies''' then storing them into banks. This leaves great holes in the earth; disturbing the eco system, they do not know that the animals and our environment are our real gold.
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My Dad fought in the jungles and Islands in WWII...." Son ..you know what money 💸is good for in the Jungle??... It's good for wiping your @$$! Wow!
This shit train only going for so long. 😢 our children's children WILL Pay the price. If something can be charge it will be. Fred I'll buy your way to the Whitehouse, but u need to look the other way when I need you too. 188% how it goes. You or I can do NOTHING ABOUT IT.
We need to bring back this kind of reporting.
No, WE need to BRING BACK THE BAY. And waters like it all over this planet. OR, WE will cease to exist.
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What are you talking about? This was posted a year ago. It's not like it went away.
Frontline is on a PUBLIC NETWORK, not a for profit news organization.
But it’s never gone away.
Been on the bay all my life. None of this is exaggerated. In the 70s when my dad was a kid you could see six feet down, now you're lucky to see six inches. 400 years ago you could see the bottom in the deepest parts of the bay.
Do you have any pictures from 400 years ago where you could see the bottom?
@@jiggyjay682 I do! so STFU
I grew up in the 70s and would go in the summer to the Chesapeake and dont ever remember seeing 6 ft or 6 inches down in that brown water. But there was lots of crabs and channel catfish.
Great memory/-ies 😮
sure sure
For the fact that she said in the first one minute of the video “if it would kill animals it could kill you” is where your answer lies.
Had we cared to protect those animals unconditionally, and lived harmoniously with nature we wouldn’t have reached here.
I love this comment 🙏
Best journalism on tv today. Thank you PBS and frontline for all you do to bring the truth out
This is old ... from 2009
for 26 years i sprayed PFOS across the globe. the last contact i had was over twenty years ago. i recently had my blood tested for 40 different types of PFAS. of those tested i have six. the test shows i still have 16.15 ng/mL of PFOS (firefighting foam) in my blood. PFOS is an endocrine disruptor. i recently had my cancerous thyroid removed. ive had two basal cell carcinomas removed from my face and shoulder. i have high cholesterol that is not controlled by diet and/or exercise.
pay attention. it's only getting worse.
You were killing the planet
@@solomontillman1574 i and every other firefighter who used/uses it over the past 60 years. untold millions of gallons of poison.
we legally poisoned the world's water supply.
and your tax dollars paid us and are paying for our healthcare and expenses.
dont blame us. we were lied to just like you were. we were told it was "...as safe as dishwashing liquid...".
guess what? stop washing your dishes.
@@solomontillman1574 But I'm sure he was not told that. He was probably lied to and told he was saving the planet. Just like they lie now and tell you the jab is 100% safe and 100% effective. That climate change is a real thing and your cow farts are the reason.
@@solomontillman1574 I think this person recognizes that... This was over 20 years ago. I'm sure if they knew how harmful it was they wouldn't have even exposed themselves to it let alone spray it everywhere, which I'm sure was part of their job not their personal choice. That comment really wasn't necessary
I can't wrap my head around what we humans are doing to mother earth and to the humans that live here.
My husband is a Marine. He was stationed near camp Lejeune first he was diagnosed with leukemia in 2002 now about 3 years ago he was diagnosed with lymphoma. I've been going through this crap with him every step of the way. This last round has crushed his spirit. I don't know what to do anymore!
Jacques-Yves Cousteau stated in his documentary films back in the 1960s and 1970s that the Chesapeake Bay's destruction due to contamination, would be the last warning that the oceans were next. And once the oceans were contaminated, all of life in earth would be in the balance.
Earth is finite. Pollution for greed is insane.
Happily we will all be dead soon.
@@passingthroughtime3033 speak for yourself as this will be here when you reincarnate!! You will be the one to clean it up! Now that's karma buster!
My bother in-law has his pilots license . We flew to McMinnville from Seattle, which is not far at all by plane. But, we mostly went along the coast, ir somewhat in.
And as beautiful as this area is, the thing that stood out was all the pollution in the wetland areas.
We flew quite low, and you could see the trails from farms, and industrial areas that would lead out towards the larger bodies of water, then out to sea.
It was quite depressing! That was about 30 years ago, and i can only imagine that things are far worse.
😢😢😢 Wow!!! Devastating!!
cool story that has nothing to do with your brother in law with pylote license, every other person i know is a pilot, and?
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Dip$hit!!!
Flynn is the worst American and is a treasonous traitor as well as his brother; a family affair!!! A treasonous traitorous family!!
Being from Michigan, I grew up understanding and later appreciating "fresh" water. Only as an adult, then I finally learn that our state's leaders have no concept of how wonderful this resource is and that it should be protected. Algal blooms, agri-waste etc., have just about ruined the world's 5th largest source of fresh water. We might as well dump several thousand tons of salt in it for the way we manage it.
I’m so sorry for the animals in these horrible places
Babies 👶 aborted the most.
Where are you from?
@@lindamaemullins5151 probably California 😂
@@natas74d7 yeah because not wanting all the animals to die as an indicator of our future health is some woke lefty liberal bullshit right??? We learned better than that in the 8th grade.
Just because both sides hate each other there are still inherit bad things in the world. Fuk your politics. Fuk my politics. maybe we could work together on stuff. If nothing else just to spite each other 😂 for forcing one another to work together towards something decent outside of politics.
Btw I'm a white dude born and raised in the south on a farm. I can barely spell my middle name but would still offer any help I can. Whatever little thing that may be. And if it was working for good, I would work with the most far-right Nazi piece of shit or the most far-left insane green-haired pinko liberal. Happily.
Science is outside of politics. I understand that's controversial and it's not true in all cases... Ken Ham and his "science" for example. And I'm making that comment as a lifelong Christian.
But if you learned anything about the scientific method... It really isn't hard to understand peer-reviewed studies and vetted science. I know it's scary especially to my fellow single brain celled organisms... But it is possible I promise you. If I can do it a five-year-old could too
Ignore the Morons. You are a True HUMAN BEING. Been trying to save the wildlife for decades. Most people can't see past their own whims. When all the animals have gone, people will finally get it through their thick skulls that they can't eat money and that they are Next ! Like how they used to use a canary in the mineshafts. If the air was poison, the bird would die. Anyone with half a brain would then know enough to change their direction. If the bees die off, people have a mere decade or two, before they die of starvation. Those animals are the ultimate & final indicators of our own demise. Proud to share the planet with folks like You, Marsha Beatty !!! 🦊🦍🐯🦝🐫🐼🦩🐧🐦
I was stationed in the DC area two time and served about 7 years there. Both times I used my Berkey at home, changing my filters every 2 months, for all my cooking and drinking needs and when out and about I always carried and drank bottled water. I Retired and came home. I can't believe 25 years later, after all these years nothing has changed... and it has gotten worse.
I moved from the pollution back east and
sought better environmental management.
My faucet water comes from glacier melt.
I'm old and won't be alive when that faucet
flow is scheduled to become a memory.
But you wave the flag of no regulation. You a fool
So who then is funding all of this? I question all things, always have.
@@mikelubin148 I was hoping there would have been a response to your comment... I'm not fully educated on the flag Denise has, but have a mild understanding of it. There certainly are many examples of over-regulation that comes down to mainly a form of additional taxation than safety/benefit although!
Former Stafford county resident here. Grew up off a creek leafing to the Potomac river. I remember them dredging my back yard creek as a child and going boating/fishing. In the mid 90s there was plenty of pollution. A constant oil slick and very murky water. Plenty of trash. No one was willing to swim in it. Hope things get better.
I miss the correspondent in these early Frontline videos, he was great, haven't seen him since 2010 💯
He gave up...just like everyone else...
Haven't had a TV for a couple of decades... didn't Fron line used to be on TV?
@@michellelafaye2721 I believe it still is on the PBS channel. Usually brand new episodes come out on Tuesdays. 😀
I've seen these type of documentaries and it makes me sad to see how animals are treated and authorities MIA.
"...we don't care enough" sadly that is so true for so many. Thank GOoDness for the courageous organizers, activists, politicians, reporters and citizens that do care and do something about it - here in the US and around the world!
Please look up earth justice
This documentary should be required viewing in all colleges and universities, along with other documentaries dealing with environmental concerns. It should be viewed in corporate boardrooms, town meetings in rural and urban communities. The burgeoning populations of the WORLD need to be informed as to the critical state of our ecosystems! For the survival of our own species, and the other forms of life we share this planet with (and upon which we depend for our own survival) we need a well-informed populace that will concede the necessity for drastic changes in our way of living and working.
Without the political will to make the necessary changes, it won't happen soon enough. Without a well-informed public to press the politicians into action, we are dooming ourselves.
Thank you - all of you - who participated in the making of this excellent video. You are doing critical work for the safety and future of all of us! 💜🖖♥️☮👍
Middle schools and high schools even better! Get em young!
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How we fail to protect and maintain our ecosystems makes no sense to me. It is almost like we want destroy ourselves.
Absolutely
I remember when I was a girl very little and Native American Indian had a cheer coming from his eye and there was trash everywhere even the Native American tried to tell us that we were destroying America we didn't listen we would go camping and fishing a lot but I would always clean up after us and take the trash home not let it get into the water
@@margiemontgomery3528 thank u from a fellow fisherman that practices the same things have a good weekend
It's the rich corporate 1%!!
Democrats
Its always fun to listen to zigzag answers from politicians, lawyers or big company representatives. The clearer we know their involvement, the funnier the answer. Never gets old
Mr. Sims is a pioneer in thought in concept and environmental prophecy who will be thanked in generations yet to come. That is a fantastic strategy to reduce and manage sprawl and continued development clearing forestry. the ecosystem HAS to STAY BALANCED.
I am from the Midwest. Whenever I was an OTR trucker, I remember being in PA and seeing signs “Entering Chesapeake Bay Watershed”. I always took it be mindful of your potential pollution. I really didn’t realize how hypocritical that sign was.
My compliments, to Mr Sims, and the great work he's doing. Also to Frontline, for this excellent production, calling attention to this serious problem.
Yep! Thanks baby boomers! Keep it up! I love watching the downfall of not only our civilization and our species, but the planet as a whole! I wonder if I'll outlive the planet?....
@@williamyoung9401 You can not blame this on the baby boomers. They demonstrated about this but big corporations are still left to pollute our water ways.
We pay taxes to clean up the Chesapeake Bay but it will do no good if Corporations are not Regulated for pollution!
@@williamyoung9401 If you watched this video, which I did, you would realize that Reagan did away with the regulations and the Clean Water Act which has caused this terrible problem. Big companies save big bucks from Not following the regulations for clean water! Republican politicians all care more about giving big business breaks then on keeping our environment healthy and clean for the people that support them?then?! In a Domocracy politicians work for the people that voted for them not for Big Corporations.
After watching this Documentary I now understand why there are so many more gay as well as lesbian teen ages growing up these days. If chemicals in our water cause this problem in fish, etc. that are in the water they effect humans too. I guess we are doomed?! Sad indeed.
Let me guess you are a democrat right lmao 😂🤣🤣🤣
Frontline is so enlightening and informative. I would love to see an update to this.
my sense is you would not love to see it remember Trump pretty much completely dismantled the EPA. I think if anything this can give you some up front look as to why they wanted to do that - make america toxic again
update- in the thirteen years since this documentary was aired the EPA has not taken action to curb the growing pollution amounts and sources. the problems continue to increase as consumerism grows with the ever-growing population that is continually bombarded with "newer better faster more convenient easier prettier stronger water proof dust proof stain proof nonstick no muss no fuss" advertising of "the latest and greatest" products that will end up in a landfill or on/in the ground where they'll ll seep their toxicity further.
it's never going to get better.
we have seen to that.
Does ANYONE remember “noise” pollution? Including music? Which has a reactive effect on certain types of pollution!
@@bobhabib750 exactly!
Who cares..want the earth to burn
26:00. That chicken manure could be mixed with hay or compost and be good organic plant fertilizer. But commercial chemical fertilizer is cheaper and easier to use. It always comes down to 💰
Stay strong, Mr. Simms! I live in Florida. There are so many homes here… not safe to eat the fish from most places if you go fishing. Sadly, I’m watching acres of beautiful land being bulldozed to build more condos or apartments near Pvt. Emory Bennett park. Like we need more people to move to FL. 🙄🥹More traffic. The men are getting to work right now at 6:22 am. No one cares. We need someone like you in Volusia County!❤🎉🎉❤
It's a global crisis; humans populate like locusts, just in a slower motion degradation of the land they occupy. 1-child per family should be law for many decades into the future then 2-child after for many centuries... You list the problem; nobody ever mentions any solutions... I give the solution!
If my solution became law, then retirement benefits would need a drastic change immediately for economic reason, but absolutely possible!
Any country not following law, shall be denied immigration and resource importation tariffs.
My Husband has worked in the Aerospace industry for his entire adult career. From SPAWAR (The Space and Naval Warfare Command) when he was in the Navy (and for many years after he retired, as a Civilian), a couple of others after he left SPAWAR, to his current career with Barnes Aerospace (here in Western Massachusetts.) Truth is, the Aerospace industry is responsible for some of THE MOST toxic chemical pollutants in manufacturing. The regulations and methods have improved GREATLY over the last several decades, but these chemicals are thus far, indispensable in the industry. True that they're some of THE MOST toxic chemicals in manufacturing, but also true that Aerospace machinery (especially airplane/space machinery parts) wouldn't and couldn't be as strong as they are, without the use of these chemicals. They're literally " baked" and painted into the parts and components in the manufacturing process. Also factual that modern society wouldn't work the way it does without some MAJOR changes and breakthroughs in terms of "man made" chemistry and it's role in manufacturing and the usage of things from military & space industry, to everyday, mundane products. (As the narrator said, right down to things like toothpaste, for example.)
The truth of the matter is that without some very SERIOUS changes in the way we do things, this nightmare can't and won't change. True that regulations have helped significantly in recent decades, but also true that while how the usage and disposal of many of these things have seen serious improvement, we ARE STILL utilizing these toxic things AND environmental cleanup of many of these contaminated areas, has STILL not happened on a significant enough level to see any real improvement. MANY of the most serious "Superfund" sites (and almost EVERY place my Husband has ever been employed since his days in the Navy, have been "Superfund" sites) are owned and maintained by the military, the civilian ones are by and large, places that manufacture things for use in the military. Though civilian manufacturing is no less toxic. It's just that military industry is PARTICULARLY bad. We also DESPERATELY need to get our priorities in order. As long as we're doing things like sending BILLIONS of $$ we DON'T HAVE to spare, to places like Ukraine to propagate WAR instead of directing those funds to CLEAN UP the mess the war industry has made (as most of these "Superfund" sites have been labeled thus, and in desperate need of THOROUGH clean up, for DECADES), things will only continue to deteriorate.
Valuble comment, thank you
As much as I care about the environment and recognize the devastation of environmental exploitation, I can’t help but potentially validate some of the fundage that goes to particular countries during crises- it could be bigger immediate problems if we didn’t perhaps, I don’t know.. but yeah we definitely need to allocate more money to the environment- we’re a mess. The dwindling and degrading of resources is going to worsen future wars unfortunately.
Na zalost dok se Senat,Kongres, vlada itd ne prociste od korumpiranih politicara i raznih lobija (Lobiranje = Korupcija) nista od ciscenja planete..to je jedina istina jer kako objasniti recimo dozvoljenu kolicinu arsena u djecijoj hrani..Cuj dozvoljena kolicina otrova u hrani za djecu????
@@Jekuyuytt6t5 your comment hasn't aged well, lol. Zelensky & cronies have stolen $400M of US taxpayers money for themselves.
If we keep this up, we're going to see a greater number of MANettes dressed in drag joining our military.
I grew up on Virginia's beaches in the 1970's and 80's. I live in NY but summered with my grandma on Virginia Beach. It was incredible back then. It has been built up ten fold since then.
Last time I was there it was a disgrace. I couldn't wrap my head around what had changed. What a horror !
I had the privilege of vacationing there in the late 80s as a young adult. Haven't been back since. Sad to see that human beings seem no wiser than some animals, crapping in their own living space.
NIMBY boomer get pillaged
Please look up earthjustice they're making a difference
@@jenandtonic2012
Ok TY
Maryland girl here. We absolutely need to take this seriously.
This being 15 years old, I wonder about the update
15 years later is anything different or just Worse 😭
Too much outdoor sound. It encourages wastes growth and filth over takes water systems.
@@missnellaful to
I’ve lived in Maryland my whole life. There is a lot of money dumped into the Bay Restoration Foundation - from license plates, to fees charged on our water bills. One has to wonder wth that money goes!😡
Rose are you from the states. Where do you live ?
I live in Ohio . Down the street from one of the 7 Great lakes, Lake Erie. The mayor is trying to get federal funding to remove lead pipes below. Which is not the problem. It's pollution. Climate change., Etc. Fresh Walleye fish is well known in Lake Erie. Good eating
Exactly. All you care about is MONEY! And that's why we have frogs with 6 legs and massive die off. Maybe start taxing the POLLUTERS instead of regular people? It's all part of the plan. You get taxed, you get angry, and then nothing gets done...
Rosemary Angela ,
The money goes into the open pockets of the Liberal Democrats.
You can safely bet that people such as John Kerry will not have to give up their private jets nor their gasoline powered Rolls Royces.
@@williamyoung9401 you going to tax China or other nations of people of color. That's waycist,and the biggest polluter is the U.S. Government and regulations and paperwork have hurt the environment more than it helped. The poster was pointing out how rich people have gotten from supposedly helping the environment.
This is an amazing production. Great job highlighting a VERY serious issue. We are trashing the planet, and with it ourselves.
this was filmed in 2009... think anythings been done since? NOPE only gotten worse - people don't care enough they care more about keeping up with the Kardashians
@@Monk-eee indeed.
The movie Walle was a good representation of where we are headed
The Kardashian's I swear they made that name up one time when they got pulled over for driving in a low income neighborhood
@Bill 🤣
This is terrifying. Why is this not common public knowledge!?
Poor Orca’s, just terribly sad and unbelievable that we have done this to our beautiful planet.
@MAN_MAN Greed is a good thing, time for you to read Ayn Rand. It’s always the other fellow who is greedy, not you or me. 🤔
Living in the rural pacific NW it does get to me how many of my fellow land owners are the WORST caretakers of the environment. I've seen thousands of pristine healthy forest acres turn into garbage heaps, unproductive pasture, subdivided for mcmansions to spray roundup week after week on unused non native lawns. These terrible money grabbing behaviors ruin the world for everyone downstream, and those of us who eagerly try to nativise and keep healthy and beautiful our plots for the sake of posterity. So much of this wilful negligence is due to a lack of education. So many people with land don't know or don't care to learn about the complexities and importance of the environmental web. Some of them don't even believe in man made climate change for shits sake. Uuugh, I hate restrictive regulations on my land, but being aware of other people, and their sick greed and carelessness, I completely understand why we need restrictions and regulations. They are the only defense against people fully ravaging the natural, clean water world. Frankly its not enough.
Hi, I agree with your passion, but roundup kills any grass or green thing. It is broad spectrum. No new developer will use roundup on their lawn.
Permaculture, regenerative agriculture etc. These are our only way forward to resolve the damage we've done and recover our land and planet. It's not too late but we are getting close! Good luck with what you do with your land and the impact you may have on your neighbors.😉💞
King Charles is ruining an entire COUNTRY this way. his neo-colonialist policies about shipping poor Britons over to Australia has been causing the same type of problems you mention --- cutting down whole Eucalyptus forests and digging more coal mines. their ignorant cultural farming practices have pushed out the indigenous people, leading to ridiculous and dangerous wildlife mismanagement and wildfires.
settlers were warned. they didn't heed
@@tinamurphy3572 stop fooling yourself, it's been way too late & the waterman did it to the waters that provided for them.
Excellent documentary. Thank you, Frontline.
Here in Alaska we stopped fishing for crab in our area for five years.
The population came back up to over normal. Went from maybe 1 in the pot to 15 in the pot. In five years of leaving the bay alone. We halted all fishing. Not just commercial.
Also:
We have a few EPA people buried here.
According to local lore.
That's very different than the situation down here in the states with all the non-point sources of pollution. Just ignore it though, we can get clean water from plastic bottles, right?
“When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realise that one cannot eat money,” Cree Native American proverb
We can look at Easter island as an example (historical evidence of net outcome) of what happened if we continue down this path.
LOL! If there is one thing we have plenty of, it's trees. There are not enough mills. The mills can pay low prices for trees because there are so many, then sell the lumber for a killing. Proof: pulpwood $7.00 per ton. Chip-n-saw $18.00 per ton. Saw logs, $30.00 or so per ton if you find someone to pay you for them!
@@tmo4330 they said the same exact thing about the Passenger pigeon, once numbering in the billions, now they are extinct. Last one died in 1914
@@richard6719You are comparing apples to oranges. Passenger pigeons were hunted faster than they were replaced. Trees are planted in greater numbers than they are cut. Example: in 2020 I had around 20,000 loblolly pines harvested. This year I had 64,000 planted. We have 668 thousand acres of forest land in Alabama, 183 acres of which are mine!
@@tmo4330 I will concede to your point about the passenger pigeons as they were wiped out faster than they could reproduce. I live in Washington state and I am sure you are aware of the forest in this region. Areas like Indonesia, So america, Malaysia, West Indies, many Asian countries are being deforested at a rate the size of rhode island every year for the last 30years and are NOT being replanted with trees. In this state the only trees that are being replanted are the ones with quick(relatively) commercial value. Losing much of its biodiversity that so much other life depends on. But who gives a shit right. Also I lived in Alabama and Georgia for several years and there too it’s losing some of its biological diversity….. on a side note I am very envious of your 183 acres and it sounds like you take great pride in your land. I only have 15 acres. But land costs here is astronomically high compared to the entire east coast and Midwest.
"big chicken didn't like that at all" best quote in this video
Thank you everyone trying to resolve these countless issues.
I worked on an oil tow as a young man. When we visited the facility at Oil City, Texas we were warned. If we went overboard we wound have to be rushed to the E. R. for a full body decontamination. Scary stuff.
Thank you for your service?
What waters?
@@shawnpattison8451 Sorry for misspelling would. An "oil tow" is tow boat that pushes petroleum barges. We ran the Intra Coastal Waterway. Usually from New Orleans to Oil City, Texas. Just inland a few miles from the Gulf of Mexico.
@@josephlewis7443 are you saying there are continuous man-made waterways that go from New Orleans to oil City Texas? Thanks
@@richardhowe5583 Actually it extends from Florida to Texas it is a commercial water way. It is not intended for public use. Because it is constantly used by push type tugs and is narrow it is of little recreational value. It is called The Intra - Coastal Waterway. I haven't been on it in years and and I am not aware of it's present status.
I was a conservative all of my adult life.
As a child I remember the Exxon Valdez in Alaska, and it bothered me, though I didn't fully understand the dynamics of that situation.
As an adult, the thing that changed my mind politically was the BP oil nightmare in the Gulf.
Watching that oil gushing into the ocean made me furious.
We're not going to stop using oil, and the products made from oil...but there are too many risks involved in many of our industrial enterprises and we need leadership that will stop trying to destroy the other party, and do what is right.
We all need to think about the world our Grandchildren will inherit and live our lives accordingly.
I can't even watch the coverage of the worlds rivers drying up.
I am at ease withy own death.
It is my children and grandchildren that my heart cries out for.
All of the catastrophes have broken my heart. The Gulf oil one was terrifying.
The dry rivers I can't even watch.
I am totally sick and tired of the Republican party continously backing the rich corporations, including all fossil fuel industries.
Furthermore, the Republicans are anti-science, pro-pollution, climate change deniers!
They have no remorse for our future generations. 😔
I was a liberal when I was young, and have been a conservative since I was old enough to see what was really going on. That said- you are exactly right, we need our representatives to do what we demand instead of simply opposing the other party (and citizens to remember that only the lobbyists and politicians win when we fight each other). We don’t have to be from a certain political party to want to conserve both the health of our economy and the health of our Earth.
And I wish other countries who are massive, massive polluters were held to at least the same standards as the US.
@@angieg3624 so like Trump bypassing law to favor himself, his children and his partners?
Algae blooms are becoming common in MN due to the huge explosion of turkey farms. Unreal how those farms smell from miles away. No homes are placed near these turkey barns. You'll often find 8 or more turkey barns lined up and no homes with-in 1+ square mile(s). The lakes in the spring aren't nearly as bad as the turkey manure overwinters and freezes over the top in heaping piles of manure. Farm fields absorb some of it and they pay a big penny for the turkey poo 💩 too! So not only are these companies profiting from the sales of the turkeys, they also make money off the turkey "litter" poo. However by July, in the high heat, the turkey litter starts moving and flowing untreated into MN lakes, green and brown algae blooms form everywhere. Any lake under 1,500 acres and with-in 15 miles of these turkey barns are doomed. Dogs have died from inhaling, drinking, swimming in these infested waters and believe me by August these bodies of water stink.
I remember driving by pig farms in central Indiana in 1983 while on vacation.We were driving from Indianapolis to Chicago in August.The stench of the farms was unreal. I am surprised I was not a vegetarian from that age.
Vincent ,
Who is it that wants cheap ( if inferior ) turkey at Thanksgiving and Christmas ? You ??
You could buy turkey from a local small farmer. A farmer that will most likely compost the turkey poo to be used upon his fields and gardens. However , the first thing that you will likely say is that they cost more . Well , yes , superior products do often cost more. On the other hand how much will it cost you in increased taxes to clean up the lakes and rivers ? Taxes that will last for a long time. If those taxes are actually used to clean up the water. Mn. is a Democrat state. Democrats have open pockets when it comes to diverting tax money.
I have chickens that freerange. Their poo is spread out over their area on the ground. Every time it rains their poo is gone. It's amazing how quickly and green the grass grows. The chickens can barely keep up with the grass. However , I sometimes lose a free range chicken to a hawk. I can not sustain that loss without charging more for my chickens. But , when you eat one of my chickens , or the eggs , you will never mistake it for a supermarket product.
I read in a book about: Turkey Pollution! It was from their scratching the ground, eating and then the wind would blow a big dust cloud > huge dust cloud, with feces etc.! From the large crowded feeding grounds!😐😐😐😐😮😮😮😣😥😀😑
Great documentary. As much as I know each one of us must take responsibility for the way we live with respect to the earth, it is difficult not to be angry with these huge companies that bought up all of their competitors, a small group of people with an overload of testosterone who want to be the BIGGEST and stretch far and wide with their business reach, regardless of whether it is hurting people, the quality is definitely compromised, and the pollution is concentrated in such a way that it cannot possibly be managed without dire consequences. I watched a video 20 odd years ago called Food, Inc.. Once upon a time before Tyson and their gluttonous growth that makes no sense at all, there were approximately 150 small farms that supplied their local grocers in the US. Now there are 2 farms, Tyson and Purdue. Food cannot be industrialized and remain healthy and sustainable, global food companies are giving us foods that are poisoned and lacking in nutrients. Our only hope is to return to the small local farms and businesses. But there have been several concerted efforts to wipe out the small players, now that we are almost completely enslaved by corporations. Please try to shop small when possible
Can't agree more. The fact is our corporate monopoly laws aren't working &/or aren't being enforced. And the practice of buying-out as many competitors as possible has spread from the oil industry all the way to our retailers, taking on everything in-between. The ability to do this is permitted by whatever politician(s) that enjoys generous "support""donations" or promises of a lucrative position for the politician to take advantage of as soon as his term is over.
It's disgusting and going to cost far more than anyone wants to give any thought to. So we need to be holding ourselves accountable for who we elect.
❤😂🎉 Truth!!!
Amazing how you never hear about this on the news isn't it?
Industrial corporations are mainly to blame...toxic waste wasn't disposed of properly.
I grew up in the Tidewater area for the majority of my life and it’s sad to see how bad things have gotten for the Chesapeake Bay. Growing up there I have so many good memories of going sailing with my dad around the Chesapeake Bay and him teaching me how to sail and fish. Even though things weren’t perfect back then,I still never thought things would eventually get that bad for the bay and for the people that counted on the bay to take care of their families and I hope and prey that it’s not to late for us to turn things around for our future as well as our childrens future.
Colonizers
I will pray along with you.
More important than global warming by a long shot.
If you believe in the priorities this is one
@@williamnutile2929 it's all lies spread by the same people.
I won't swim in it's tributaries as they are even worse.
This was published in 2009. I live in Seattle. It has gotten Way better since then in the Puget sound. Between the UW and NOAA being present here its actually been very helpful. Currently we are kicking out the fish farms and changing their regulations. Long ago Atlantic Salmon got into the Sound due to fish farming. All over the news they called all fisherman to go fish out those Atlantic salmon. There was NO limit. These things don't go away overnight though. So even though many things have changed we still need to do more. To save our local Salmon population UW has had a long running program. Where kids in elementary school get fertilized eggs and once they hatch they go to their designated stream or river to let their baby salmon out. These super fund sites are terrible. Because you have a program like that. But then you end up sending your baby salmon through these places. So we can't fix the populations if you are just sending them to their death through those sites
Yep 👍
For those not from the area, you should edit to indicate "UW" means the University of Washington.
Nunya D watching this episode now it's May of 23 i live in Kitsap county.. all my children have been involved in that program it was awesome when they finally got to go and release the hatchlings 💯that was elementary school and my children are now😊 well my youngest are 24🙏🏾they are still proud of what they accomplished back than❤
AWESOME
We lived on East hill Kent, Washington. 1990-1993.fished from Uncle's boat.
Frontline has done an outstanding job in revealing how covering soil with concrete and destroying forest is one of the things killing our planet. this video ought to be used as a teaching aid in high school and college classrooms.
EVEN CHERNOBLE GREW BACK SO WHAT IF ITS P OISOUNOUS IT STILL GREW BACK!
I remember as a kid collecting clams as they washed up on the beach. Now all you see is broken shells if that. Not even the shells plenty anymore
you collected clams that washed up on shore ? we dug them from the muck when i was a kid because there alive in the muck they only washed up on shore when they were dead
@@songofseikilos8659Hello!!!!! Part of the point. The progression!
I have been proposing for the last decade that we start three brand new political parties: the land party, the ocean party, and the sky party. I believe if everyone belonged to these parties we could save the planet.
30yrs ago there used to be rules because I worked with farm inspectors ( like manure piles had to be covered with tarps allowed to age in the heat a certain period before being moved for other use).
I lived in both Stafford and Fairfax County for awhile. Being from urban Orange County, California this was then rural. I loved it! It's so very sad to see this happening to yet another part of my beautiful country. Overdevelopment is exactly what I hate about so much of California. Now this is happening to so much of the other parts of my country. And yet, people don't get it. They get angry and want to shoot people. They're selfish. Like petulant children not getting their way. With no regard for the land or other creatures or the land around them. You all should be ashamed!
Gary Armstrong ,
Overdevelopment is the base cause of climate change. Cut down another 1,000 acres of rainforest in the Amazon Basin and what happens is that the desert of North Africa and the Middle East grows a little more. Now reaching as far as India and western China.Remember the stories of the Middle East once known as the Fertile Cresent ? It is no more. Over time it could be once again.
However , that does not fit in with the agendas of the Liberal Politicians that prefer policy's that will give more control of people. Such as forcing everyone to have electric cars which will limit the travel abilities of people.
The Earth NEEDS productive grasslands and forests to sustain itself. The very grasslands that we pave over with housing developments , concrete and asphalt. We clear cut forests to provide lumber to build those housing developments.
As for the chemicals that come from the huge commercial farms. The government is a working partner of those huge farms. The government passes laws which prevent competion of the small local farms that can provide much better farm products. The government works hand in glove with the huge agricultural corporations.
Liberal governments around the world are working against human beings. And the Earth itself ? Hurricanes , tornados , floods , I suspect that it has begun an effort to rid itself of us pesky humans.
it's called 'mental illness'
Stop the loud outside music…it bothers and makes shit grow.
Gary Armstrong
Close the fucking borders. Stop letting in 3rd world filth to our beautiful nation.
"Overdevelopment is exactly what I hate about so much of California."
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Overdevelopment is exactly what caused the Chesapeake Bay to go under as well! About 96% of the Chesapeake Bay waterfront areas belong to private home owners and businesses. Most of what's left belong to the US military and other government agencies, leaving less than 1% for the general public to enjoy in the form of public parks. It is simply a case of the rich few buying up all the waterfront lands for themselves to deny the vast majority the chance to enjoy the bay. We all know how those home owners and businesses like to keep their lawns in immaculate condition, which means lots of pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers that run straight into the Chesapeake Bay! Then those rich fortunate few are the ones that cry the loudest at the pollution and ecological problems that are occurring, problems that they themselves are causing!
The issue with storm water runoff is still the number polluting issue here in the northeast USA. Yet it remains unaddressed certainly not in any appreciable way.
I grew up w PBS. your documentaries are so well done and It shows that it didn't hafe to get to the point is is now. Politics and Presidents can destroy our lives. We need a 3 party system . One entirely of Citizens who represent all citizens and the best interest of the entire country. I am one of many volunteer activists pushing for this change. I always learn something I did not already know which makes it easier for me & my group to show those who are easily manipulated by the Political rhetoric and media manipulation to See. thank you!
I can remember when you could visibly see jellyfish in the harbor water in downtown Baltimore. There actually use to be manatees and whales that would enter our waters here in Maryland. There was plenty of blue crab supply, even the locals could go crabbing. It's sad to see how things have taken a turn for the worse for businesses in Maryland but I must agree this documentary was well put together. I use to watch PBS for their educational and informative docs like this one. If you can, please donate to channels like this one. - much love 💕 .
Blue crab season has been shortened this year. 😔
I don't get why they don't package and sell the animal manure as fertilizer.
If it's got nutrients in it for algae, it's got nutrients in it for corn.
Right
🖐❤ People dont realize that they ARE the water, the soil, the animals, fish, and trees. We are one with the environment. We are the environment. The environment is us. We are all one. ❤
Monumental documentary!!! Photography spectacular!! This deserves a production award. So critical to bring the public Into this before it's too late! I t has international implications too!
Thank you for expressing my sentiments!
I didn't grow up on the Chesapeake. I grew up on Long Island. North is the Long Island Sound, South is the Atlantic or one of a couple different bays. For me it was the south shore and the Great South Bay. Fishing, Crabbing , Boating was like a reflex. It's a disgrace that more than likely the reason it gets ignored and continues to worsen is a politician getting money to turn a blind eye to the source(s) of the pollution.
I remember my friends and me would make rod holders for our bicycles to go fishing. But nothing was more fun than a kite string tied to a chicken leg and catching blue claw crabs all day in the fall.
This cannot be ignored .
I lived in South Florida as well for 15 years. 8 minute drive by car to the beach. There is no better way of life than being near a large body of water and using it wisely for recreation. I'm 61 and for the past 7 years and only the past 7 years have I been farther than a 10 minute from the ocean.
I miss it.
" Some day the earth will weep, she will beg for her life, she will cry with tears of blood. You will make a choice, if you help her or let her die, and when she dies, you will die. " ~ John Hollow Horn, Oglala Lakota 1932
It's too late the white man thought he was civilized he thought he knew everything he didn't know he poisoned the world and death followed him he is death Behold The Pale Horse the dumbest thing to ever be allowed to be called without question.
🕵🏻♂️❤️🙏🏼Amen Brother !!
Yes! Something good to watch when i get home
it's like the movie where there is a line that says "water, water everywhere and NOTHING to DRINK"
It's heartbreaking we don't respect our Mother.She has everything we need but she needs love and respect Our Mother Earth .Greedy disrespectful people have destroyed her.We are in trouble killing and polluting our life's resources.
Awesome documentary! It would be nice to have one about municipal infrastructure; although municipal water is regularly tested & highly regulated, if it goes through corroded/dirty pipes you’re in an almost equally bad position… But bottled water = plastic waste & microplastics.Hard to win with drinking water these days…
I live in Kentucky and on top of over %50 of the lakes I grew up enjoying to fish and boat on have all dried up and are no longer in existence on top of that many of the waterways are also terribly polluted from actual rainwater runoff that causes toxic groundwater all caused by huge amounts of over farming and the vast amounts of poisonous fertilizes they use on these farms it all ends up in our waters it's terrible nothing's being done about it it's too late to reverse the damage that's been done but it's not too late to be stopped so it doesn't get any worse again nothing's being done about it sad truth.... 😔😔
AND I WON'T EVER STOP UNTIL THEY ARE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE!
Should America be concerned? You bet we should be 🇺🇸
Such excellent work. I just wish you guys had the ability to do this investigative work for every square foot in the United States, and The World!
I know a guy on a family farm nearby who used a diesel pump to lower a hog lagoon by pumping off excess water levels in the lagoon into a nearby creek, which ultimately fed into the cape fear River. There’s no telling how much damage he did before he got caught, but they arrested him, indicted him on state and federal charges and ordered him to pay for all clean up and restoration efforts. It was humiliating for him.. rightfully so. Lol..
Gross, i get water from the cape fear, in wilm NC
Let me guess, he didn't have the money to pay for the clean up and it remains polluted until this day. The rich NEVER pay.
Is the problem in part that our system is built on endless growth?
Ya we need to reduce the human population who's first?
@@songofseikilos8659 The polluters.
The Neuse river on the East Coast, from Raleigh all the way to the ocean is so contaminated with poultry and human waste ... there was an announcement made that even TOUCHING the water can make you sick!
The pig factories in North Carolina are just as toxic to the waterways. I've been vegetarian since I saw how factory farms operate. They are deadly for our waters.
Moo. Ty for revealing this in ur post here. Touching the water could make u sick. WOW. We must pay attention to these disgusting pollutants.
Yup
And we need to shower 🚿 in that crap. Skins soak up the water and all the chemicals in the water's💧
Damn! 😮
I used to live in a Cul-de sac amongst some prosperous people. They had 2-3 cars parked in their yard, after cutting down all their trees. My yard was the only one with 5 large trees. When my neighbors wanted to play dominos or just under a tree, they used to come to my yard.
PBS Frontline make excellent documentaries.
Thank you
Keep up the high standards.
Unfortunately, as of late, they no longer seek the truth but work to support narratives that align with the powers to be. Little by little, revisionist history permeates through sites like this to craft a narrative seemingly true, to those uneducated in the facts, too lazy to do so, but rife with little untruths, mischaracterizations, or glossing over facts. PBS has become an activist news, documentary site that no longer tells a story but uses the story to drive a narrative. They look great, have great orators but they all, predicable, in the end drive home a point of their design. Very subtle to egregious, Nixon, a republican founded the EPA, but he could careless about the environment, really. He hired William Doyle Ruckelshaus to be the first director of the EPA, this guy was an environmentalist, before the word was coined, and he made decisions, not based on facts, that we now know have coast the lives of millions, banning DDT. People in Africa still suffer from his decisions. Then we go to Reagan, who the claim pushed for deregulation, he did and the economy took off, but it was this deregulation that made the environment suffer. Really, Reagan hired the same hard as. environmentalist Nixon hired to set up the EPA William Ruckelshaus returned to the position from 1983 to 1985, as the fifth Administrator of the EPA, during the Reagan administration. In 1973, he was also the acting FBI Director. So, don't believe what you read because it sounds solid, it's not.
PBS is still one of the best things going in the USA. It's sad that people attack them for having the word "Public" in their name :(
THIS is good but too often they choose politics and manipulation. Just give us the facts and avoid everything else.
i remember when allot of lakes and rivers looked clear.
Last year in the early summer I walked along the shore of Harstine island in the south puget sound and saw hundreds of juvenile dunginess crab. As I walked through the shallow water there were so many that I had to step carefully to avoid crushing them. In 40 years here I’d never seen such a thing. I hope it means things are improving.
Maybe it was the only safe place for them to be.
In Jesus name we pray
@@nataliesuper5836 wow didn’t 💭 sad because it’s sounds about right 😢
@@karlagarcia1851 I might be wrong. But it reminded me of a lake I swam in as a child. It was cold except for a few spots that stayed warm (not from pee. It STAYED warm. Idk why. Underground stuff). I stayed in the warm spots. Those crabs might be doing something similar (but different).
God said if we rest the Oceans and just shore fish 7 years the Oceans will REPLENISH so we all have more than enough
That should be our primary objective right now not war
THINK GOD
I’ve built pole barns for several poultry farming operations for Tyson. The waste produced from just two of those 200 yard long chicken sheds is unbelievable. Many of the structures we put up (buildings for equipment storage) were right next to these long sheds and the smell was indescribable. One of those sheds typically holds thousands of chickens, from the time they’re baby chicks until they’re old enough to be sent off to slaughter. I cannot imagine the pollution those poultry farms must be causing for the Chesapeake Bay. I would like to state that the farmers are not the enemy and if it is their standard for operating their farms that come into question, most are willing to improve those standards with whatever method is put into place.
Farmers are but pawns of subsidized industrial food system, consolidated corporate oligarchies/legacy Cargill, Monsanto, US Sugar, hedge funds, associations
& lobbyists, etc. fertilizers & pesticides. Unsustainable domino effective.
Too much power and too much Government in people's lives! Regan was spot on !
We grew up on the Chesapeake. Used to love swimming right there at Terrapin Park by the Bay Bridge.
A few years ago when we went back home we decided to take the kids swimming there & my husband ended up in the hospital the next morning. He'd gotten poked by a thorn while hiking the park & thought nothing of it. All the pollution of the Bay being a major shipping channel ended up causing blood poisoning.
Our next trip back home was the following summer for Memorial Day weekend. Since we were in Oxford where his grandfather used to drive the ferry we took the kids down to the beach to swim. Our then 6 year old ended up in the hospital with an Ecoli infection in her kidneys that not only put her in the hospital 3 days later it almost killed her. They had to try 9 different antibiotics before they found one that saved her life. The hospital contacted Water Keepers & learned that there was a massive amount of storm run off from farmlands 3 days prior & that's what caused it. There was a high concentration of Ecoli in the water from the manure they had fertilized the fields with & all the chicken farms on the area.
Now when we go home we're scared to even go beach combing or sit on any area of sand that gets submerged at high tide.
Growing up on the Bay with Watermen in both our families we never thought we'd end up fearing our waterways where so many fun childhood memories were made. Not even the Listeria outbreak caused us to fear ever setting foot back in those waters. Pollution has though.
Honestly we hold Gov Hogan responsible for a lot of it. The Chesapeake Bay has always been a shipping channel but it's ridiculous anymore. Last summer they even had the sister ship of the one that got stuck in the Panama Canal get stuck in the Chesapeake Bay right by the Bay Bridge. We never had ships as massive as the ones that are constantly lined up in the Bay now. There are cargo ships in the Bay now 24/7 that dwarf the Navy ships. The Bay was doing better until Hogan lifted so many restrictions on farmers & other industries that directly effects the health of the Bay that our beloved Bay will never fully recover from him. You can't allow the things he has then also permit the oysters that are the very lungs/filters for the Bay to be over fished & expect his 2 terms not to have a devasting effect on the Bay & it's tributaries that effects more states than Maryland.
Especially when you could the amount of Nuclear submarine patrols because Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant is right on the Bay directly across from Taylor's.
You can't have all these things on the Bay & expect it to be healthy. During Jimmy Carter my uncles had great hope for the Bay & their industry. Reagan came in & one of the 1st things he did was rip out the solar panels Jimmy Carter had installed & they knew they Bay was gonna take a hit. Especially after the restrictions Hogan's lifted & the deals he's made trying to get to the WH. Add Trump's EPA & all the water ways that empty into the Chesapeake to this entire situation & it's no wonder the Bay is dying.
I haven't even watched it yet but I bet big corporations are the culprits.
Same and yep.
The interesting thing is that nitrogen and the other wastes are very important to crop farming.
Seems sad that material gets flushed into the general environment
If you step away from nature at any point in your lifestyle, there is a price to pay in one way or another.
When I was a teenager in the early 80s I would go crabbing on the Severn River that connects to the Chesapeake Bay back then you could catch a Bushel of Crabs just using hands lines off the piers on the Severn River but today you'll be lucky to catch a half dozen of crabs using hand lines off a pier! Sad but true! If you live in Maryland donate money to Save The Bay and stop buying Perdue Chicken.
6:30 18:18 Great service thank you PBS
"The same thing killing animals will kill people, too."
Our America The Beautiful is being destroyed by cold, hard greed.
It is far more than America.
The whole world is in the same place.
It is time to gather the chairs on the deck and the band will play 'Nearer, my God, to thee'
My Dad said he was shocked to see so many people when I took him to Gasworks Park in Seattle. He said when he was a kid he would sneak down there but that it was a contaminated area so people didn't go there and he was told not to go there by his parents.
I watched a documentary a while ago about the pig poop in North Carolina and how it's polluting the drinking water in the state. My sister lives there and didn't even know about it...
Are we lucky to live in Hawaii? So far, there are laws to prevent poisoning of waters, but I do not know if they are always obeyed. We are a tourism state, so nasty waters would drive tourists away. Nuclear waste was an issue years ago when radioactive waste was carried our way.
@@jimmieduncan5751 yes I remember watching something about it. Was it from the navy base there?
Was the it the one with the pink holding ponds or created by an older gentleman who?
Eastern part of NC is flooded with corporate pig farms, Tyson, Hatfield don't support these companies or there smaller ones they own. They own most if the whole meat industry.
So grateful to all for this work
They say no one knew. My grandfather went for oysters in the Delaware Bay. Later I lived in Little Creek, Delaware. I bought photos of the oyster boats in Little Creek. No boats when I lived there. If filled with mud. My neighbor a commercial crabber, conch fisher and horseshoe crab fisher constantly fought to increase his harvest. It diminishes now. This article is crying wolf to those who never heard. Yeah I tried to save the bays. I was recycling and help the Bee guys. Please show the combines harvesting corn in fields miles long, 6 combines with a fleet of trucks heading to the granaries.
We like to criticize the Russians who destroy their environment with industry, but America does it in less harmful ways, you can argue "at least our pollution is mostly organic," but the truth is, we live like we can just throw our trash over the border. Nature doesn't recognize any borders, at least invisible political ones.
Finally making sense of it all. Thanks. Great programming.
Ann are you from the states. Where do you live ?
Anyone who gets water from a city source needs a distiller at least for drinking water. Try distilling city water and see what’s left at the bottom of the distiller and you’ll appreciate it.
I comprehend. I have a counter top Reverse Osmosis (R/O) machine that I use daily. It has a TDS meter built-in, with a digital display. It often reads 560 + coming into the machine. It's usually under 8 coming out. Changing 2 filters twice a year, 2 filters annually. The filters are working hard!
Will home made Berkey filtering machines work?
It's been urgent for decades, but nobody listens.
Seems the main problem is overpopulation, more people means more need for more & more food, and more & more resources being used
Yeah ... China and India main culprits
And more pollution from all those people largely collected in densely populated living areas. Eventually, we'll make large portions of the planet uninhabitable for us.
I've lived on the Puget Sound for over two decades and while the rainwater runoff is a part of the issue....the far bigger concern is the repeat dumping of massive amounts of raw sewage into Dyes Inlet and other waterways.
They used to have combined storm and waste industries.
For the wrong doing of not treating Mother Earth right the consequences are alarming in a grand scale.
1. Buy cheap farmland.
2. Get the county to spend lots of taxpayer money putting in roads and other infrastructure.
3. Sell for a huge profit.
4. Complain about the taxes you pay.
My thoughts exactly.
Fishing isn't the problem it's all the chemicals, fertilizers and crap people put on their bodies to wash away sometimes three times a day! Industrialized farming is a major issue, but people refuse to support a local farm or grow their own food. I can't imagine since COVID how tons of hand sanitizers have been filling the water ways. Thank you for showing something with RFK, Jr., who has been blacklisted in the media.
Round up.
RFK Jr. running for president now!
The issue of poisoned waters is a growing environmental crisis with serious consequences for both human health and ecological systems. Toxic chemicals, heavy metals, and industrial waste are polluting vital water sources, rendering them unsafe for drinking, bathing, or supporting aquatic life. Addressing this crisis requires robust environmental regulations, comprehensive cleanup efforts, and a shift towards more sustainable practices to prevent further contamination of our precious water resources.
In NYS the DEC does not respond to citizen concerns about pollution, some of which ends up in the Chesapeake.
The main problem is how huge corporations corrupted the politicians 🤬
Would like to see an update on this segment. It's over thirteen years old now.
THEY knew this was happening..BUT THEY DONT DRINK THE SAME WATER..YOU KNOW THE REST
They drink bottled water like the rest of us, that knows what’s up!!
You are right. They just do not care, but they ought to be indicted and sentenced for willfully choosing to poison people and wildlife. There is no excuse for it.
Yes.. just ask almost anybody in Tennessee how good their water is. Especially folks in Knoxville. Of course certain people make a lot of money because of this, selling BOTTLED water, that is.
@@jaysonwallker1648 Exactly