Is it too soon...

[zephcom]

I'll address this with my example of the lakes in my county, which are a weedy mess. One small lake has an activist group called "Friends of Lake -----" (name withheld so as not to embarrass them). They don't deal with the lake directly but conduct programs in the watershed, with the goal in mind to improve water quality by reducing fertile runoff from the watershed, using the condition of the lake as the barometer of their success.

Their programs are an abject failure, as the lake gets worse each year.

If they would treat the "symptoms" by vigorously harvesting the aquatic weeds and removing the carp the water quality would improve. They choose not to do this, or to lobby the county for such, instead clinging dearly to the fox that is eating them alive.

They will never realize their goal by treating the cause any more than doctors will by attempting to treat the cause of illness.

Municipal sewage systems treat the cause of illness. I wonder if anyone else knows they are abject failures.

 

[OldWiseGuy]

Municipal sewage systems treat the cause of illness. I wonder if anyone else knows they are abject failures.

Municipal sewerage systems treat faulty human nature?

 

[zephcom]

Municipal sewerage systems treat faulty human nature?

They treat the cause of illness.....

 

[OldWiseGuy]

They treat the cause of illness.....

Don't tell the doctors that. (Maybe they should take a look at our lakes.)