Andy Rindsberg wrote:
>>>Negative population growth? Averting one's eyes and maintaining a
>
> Buddha-like calm? Writing an angry note to the Times? Hakuna matata? Signing
> the Kyoto accord?
>
> Mike Gray responded,
>
>>Futile. Maybe some serious eco-terrorism?
>
>
> What a pity that conscientious people have to live with their consciences...
>
> The younger generation pays a lot of attention to blogs. Show "before and
> after" pics of the dying reefs and the developed beaches, add a brief
> commentary with links to conservation organizations etc., and link to other
> nature-oriented bloggers. State positively what can still be done.
>
> City Hall pays attention to dollar signs. How many tourists want to see a
> dead reef or a muddy beach?

The Palm Beach Post and the (Ft Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel have
both covered these issues extensively. The state of Florida is
providing free lab work to folks monitoring turbidity and
measuring nitrogen/ammonia/etc in the effluent. Harbor Branch is
providing gridding systems to assure that monitoring is
accurate. Palm Beach County has offered to pay half the cost of
getting the treatment plant into compliance. But the cities of
Delray Beach and Boynton Beach, who are served by the plant,
refuse to even admit that there is a problem.

There are thousands of pages of federal and state regulations,
standards, guidelines, restrictions, blah, blah....

There is no enforcement mechanism for any of them.

What the tourists want is a toilet to flush and a renourished
beach to lie on.

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