The Rock & Roll Health Chick “Mercy Me (the Ecology)”
Iam always saddened and amazed by the
songs from way back in the ‘70s, about our soci- ety and environment, that are still very relevant today! Marvin Gaye had it right in 1971 with “Mercy Mercy Me,” and here we are today strug- gling with the same threats. Kids, if you don’t know that song listen to
it! And then listen to Inner City Blues! If those two songs don’t touch your soul, something is wrong. The Beach Boys wrote a song “Don’t Go Near The Water” that same year. I was only four- years old in ‘71, so I don’t remember how things were, but obviously they were bad enough for musicians to notice. I do know that decade is notorious for the
pollution, and I do remember some of the prob- lems as I got older. Remember the U.S. Forest Service’s Woodsy the Owl telling us to Give A Hoot, Don’t Pollute?! And who didn’t cry from Keep America Beautiful’s Cody Iron Eyes, the Crying Indian?!
wasting resources which could be reused in other forms. Is it too much trouble? Do they not care? I am known to take uncaring people’s re-
cyclables to my house for recycling. It makes me sick when a restaurant, venue or event doesn’t re- cycle. Multiply the ones we see by some number I can’t even fathom. It makes me angry when a place is giving out food samples, and there are all those little plastic cups and utensils going in the trash can. That’s all recyclable plastic! All that trash is taking up precious space!
It should be illegal! We all have to live on this planet! No one should have the right to make it more polluted when there are solutions. What does this have to do with “health,”
you might ask? Well, without clean water, air and soil it’s game over for all of us! That is something we cannot afford to ignore or leave to our chil- dren or grandchildren for future worries. And anyone who thinks it’s better for the economy to pollute?! Can you eat, drink or breathe money?! I promise, you don’t even want to go there with me!
I realize many of the people out there talk- Psychologists know that if kids are taught
something at a young enough age and in such a way that makes them invested, it will become a part of who they are. So the family I knew in the ‘70s who threw trash out of their car window while driving down the highway, whenever they wanted, clearly didn’t know or didn’t care. But I did, and I have never forgotten all of those im- ages.
It makes me cringe when people don’t re-
cycle, filling up their trash cans with items that will never break down in the landfills, taking up more and more valuable space on our planet and
ing about health are touchy feely and about peace and love. Those things have their place for sure, but don’t forget the Rock-n-Roll part of MY health trip! That’s the part that means I’m a bad ass, who says it like it is and isn’t afraid to stand up and speak out! Now let me put my money where my mouth is. You may have heard about and/or seen
pictures of our recent water crisis in Florida. Seven counties in southwest Florida have been declared to be in a state of emergency, declared by the person who is partially responsible for al- lowing the emergency to happen in the first place! Is it a hurricane, you ask? Is it a drought? Wild fires?
When you think of Florida, what is the first
thing that comes to mind?! For a lot of people, it’s water. Almost the whole state of Florida is sur- rounded by the ocean. Now that ocean, from Clearwater to South Marco Beach and the water-
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