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Hawaii should be glad they're gone, sugar farms are destroying Florida. They fill lake Okeechobee with pollution, and then that pollution has to be drained peri
by gthtjtkt 10y ago
Hawaii should be glad they're gone, sugar farms are destroying Florida. They fill lake Okeechobee with pollution, and then that pollution has to be drained periodically, destroying everything in its path and rendering beaches unusable for days or weeks at a time. This year, it was so bad that they declared a State of Emergency.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/01/us/florida-algae-pollution/ http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/01/us/florida-algae-pollution/
> "The algae outbreaks are triggered by fertilizer sewage and manure pollution that the state has failed to properly regulate. It's like adding miracle grow to the water and it triggers massive algae outbreaks,"
- toomuchtodo 10y agoFloridian here! The only lobby more powerful than the utilities is the sugar lobby.