Pushing the farmers under the environmental bus
August 9, 2016 | John R. Smith | Print Article
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Emotional political issues are dangerous for several reasons. One reason is that people often form opinions on emotional issues, based on bad information. Supporting or opposing something based on inaccurate reasons is a serious but common problem.
We see this problem today, with the issue of Florida’s Lake Okeechobee and water flow into and out of Lake O. Smart people have come down on the wrong side of reasonable solutions because they have allowed myths to substitute for facts. Politics and the search for votes has also entered the picture, as discharges from the freshwater lake, containing nutrients, have caused major green-blue algae blooms in the St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee river estuaries.
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