By Mark Bittman
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 384 pages, $28
It’s fun to pee while walking in the ocean drinking a beer; it’s psychopathic to poop while sitting in the tub counting your money.
Sadly, though, we humans are now essentially engaged in that sick behavior. We are well into the Anthropocene “The era in which humans have changed the face of the Earth and will determine its future.” That means our human activity is now responsible for the state of the world’s environments and how liveable they are. In this era we are massive enough as a species to treat the oceans as our bathtub but, apparently, we are not smart enough as a species to realize that we are sitting in our waste. We are in danger of irremediably defiling not only the oceans, but also the earth that grows our food and the air that we breathe.
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MI ENVIRONMENT
Michigan s water resources are a global treasure; EGLE is using innovation, fresh thinking to keep them that way
Michigan s water resources are a global treasure; EGLE is using innovation, fresh thinking to keep them that way
Date: March 04, 2021
By Liesl Clark, EGLE Director
(A version of this guest column by EGLE Director Liesl Clark appeared in the Alpena News and Up North Voice yesterday and is available for use by other media outlets.)
Not a day goes by when I m not reminded of Michigan s unique place on Earth surrounded by 20 percent of the planet s fresh surface water in the heart of the world s greatest freshwater ecosystem.
Liesl Clark
Not a day goes by when I’m not reminded of Michigan’s unique place on Earth surrounded by 20% of the planet’s fresh surface water, in the heart of the world’s greatest freshwater ecosystem.
Every Michigander relies on that water in some way for drinking, sanitation, recreation, livelihoods and economic security. We all have a responsibility to be wise stewards of the Great Lakes.
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy plays a leading role in ensuring they remain healthy for generations to come.
It has been two years since Gov. Gretchen Whitmer entrusted me with the leadership of EGLE and its critical mission of protecting Michigan’s environment and public health. We’ve made tremendous progress in accelerating and improving Michigan’s water protections both in the drinking water systems that are critical for healthy lives and surface and groundwater safeguards that protect our natural resources and quality of life.
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