our destroyed waters

by curlytop
(louisiana)

Help this little guy

Help this little guy

Fix the water, your greed is my smog - You're angry about the sludge in our water. It's time to stop crying over toxic frogs and start inventing things that make pollution unprofitable.

Ask away, Curlytop: We use these waters as important resources and have no respect for the health of organisms that live in them. We don't care for it. We are not only effecting our selves but all aquatic life. We are acting heartless towards our waters.

Everybody open your eyes. I'm only 14 and I see what were doing to our beautiful world. Please stop polluting. We don't care about the unfortunate people who have no choice but to use it! Please help our waters.

Barry's Response We need to demonstrate greater caring overall. You said it, CT.

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It's your water, our air, our fight

Looking at that title above, I see the raw, panicked truth. You see the heartlessness, the waste, and the broken system through Curlytop (who's only 14). Your anger isn't cute; it's science screaming at the world. You hit the nail on the head: We don't care about our water's health.

I'm an inventor, a debater, and also kinda sassy. Let's stop asking people to care about our destroyed waters and start giving them a reason to fix them.

💸 Frog Tax, Freedom, and Profits

It's the pivot that makes environmentalists gasp and skeptics lean in: Environmental care is capitalism's ultimate goal.
  • A Goal with a Principle: We can talk about property rights and fiscal responsibility. We're with you! Pollution violates our collective right to clean air and water. Let's not look at a polluted waterway as a sad picture, but as stolen property. Toxic discharge needs to be priced massively so that local cleanup can be funded right away. Polluters should fund local, free-market tech contests to invent microfiltration solutions instead of massive federal taxes. This isn't regulation; it's restitution based on restoration.
  • Counter-Narrative: Some say global warming is the main problem. Bull. Irresponsible dumping of sludge is the first thing we need to fix. Why? Kids are dying from invisible air crimes today because of pollution in our destroyed waters! Prioritize the immediate health crisis (air/water quality) over the abstract, long-term climate fear. Freedom of thought-clean air and water now!

🧪 The second part: Your water is my air freshener, but it's poisonous

The little guy frog needs us! This muddy water isn't just a bathtub for frogs; it's an invisible air quality factory.
  • There's a lie about air-water partitioning: When chemicals sit in water (like mud), they don't stay there. Theoretical meteorology tells us about Air-Water Partitioning, where toxic compounds naturally try to balance out. They jump right out of the water if they're volatile (like certain VOCs or ammonia from sewage). It makes the water less toxic, but it makes the air toxic! That's why smelly, polluted water is a sign of localized air pollution.
  • The Algal Alarm System: Fertilizer feeds algal blooms in our destroyed waters. As they die, these blooms release hydrogen sulphide (H2S) gas, which smells like rotten eggs. H2S isn't just gross; it's a measurable air pollutant. The stinky water is literally screaming its air-quality crime.

💡 The Revolutionary Solution-Microbe Capitalism

Defiantly simple, fun, and profitable solutions are what we need.
  • Let's embrace microbe capitalism instead of giant, expensive wastewater treatment plants. Create genetically-engineered algae or bacteria that not only eat the oil and sludge, but also convert the heavy metals into a valuable commodity (like nickel pollution for batteries). Inventors get paid to design the best toxic-waste-to-asset solution. A liability (pollution) becomes an asset (raw material).
  • Design small, modular, solar-powered water cleaning pods that communities can buy, own, and operate like a business. The community profits if the pod cleans water and converts byproducts into reusable resources (compost, clean water, or metals).
It makes environmental action a job creator, not just a tax burden.

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by: KOTO

Aloha Curlytop:

You're the kind of person we need to help us wake up adults and teach the children well. You can start in your neighborhood with the street drains where the storm water goes.

Too many people either don't understand what a storm drain is for or just don't care. This system of drains, in many ways, is our life's blood. They are put in place to deliver rain water directly back to our environmental water cycle so that our roads, streets and homes don't flood.

The problem is that people use them to get rid of unwanted things like cigarette butts, Styrofoam and other man-made waste, and this garbage ends up contaminating the waterways.

One thing you can start doing today is talking to your local media or start your own stenciling, next to the storm drains, placing messages on them like (NO GARBAGE, GOES TO OUR DRINKING WATER) OR (KEEP OUR STORM DRAINS CLEAN) - what ever works for where you live.

One major problem is that movies show actors flicking their cigarette ends into the streets and parks or wherever, and people think that is just a way of life. They appear to do this not knowing they are killing things. When it rains or the wind blows the butts find their way into our waterways.

They are toxic and kill much of our water life including fish, frogs, dolphins, turtles, water birds and many more. They can also choke a baby to death or make them very ill if successfully ingested. We need to wake up the smokers that flick their poison as each butt takes up to 12 years to decompose.

You are the perfect age to start your a great contribution towards the saving of our waterways.

May the force be with you and Happy Holidays.

From Barry - Some people treat it like a garbage chute to an invisible "away," but it's actually an untamed river straight to our destroyed waters. You've given Curlytop a brilliant, localized action plan!

💧 Street Drain Crime: The Science

Water pollution is linked to a double dose of air pollution when you focus on street drains and cigarette butts:
  • Trash like motor oil, cleaning fluids, and Styrofoam (polystyrene, which releases volatile monomers) dumped in a storm drain enters the environment raw. When these chemicals hit the water, they volatilize - meaning their nasty chemical components VOCs jump into the air! It's like an accelerated chemical dispersal system that turns a localized spill into widespread air pollution that can cause smog.
  • The Butts' Toxic Mist: You're right about cigarette butts being toxic. Every flicked butt is soaked in nicotine, heavy metals, and thousands of chemicals.

    Whenever a storm drain carries that butt to the beach or river, it leaches toxins directly into the water. However, there's another sneaky air quality offense, too: when the water gets agitated (by waves, wind, or waterfalls, as your article mentions), the micro-toxic compounds can get aerosolized and blow inland as invisible, dangerous particulates PM2.5.
Picking up one bag of butts purifies water and air!

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