The University of California did a study that showed that the Mississippi delta was the worlds most contaminated coastal area. The contamination results from the chemical runoff from thousands of large farms that rely on artificial fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides. The pollution from thousand of businesses as well as millions of people who live along this great river is also dumped into the river. This has resulted in the largest "dead zone" in which marine life cannot survive. Due to these chemicals this coastline is more polluted than the coastlines near the Mekong or the Ganges rivers. In any case the cost of this environmental disaster is greater than the cost of cleaning up the pollution. This fundamental fact regarding pollution is ignored in our society because we do not count the cost of pollution when we create it.
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