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Is Your Mouth The Cause?

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A tear in the eye of an American Native as trash is thrown at his feet from a passing car; the Texas-sized plastic bottle island floating in the Pacific Ocean towards Asia; the fake hills of Florida made up of garbage we cannot get rid of are all examples of human pollution and not the pollution I am talking about. 

I am speaking of the vile waste which comes out of our mouths. The hot air in the form of political filth, stereotypical slurs, massagist, raciest and the most absolute ugly comments used to show the inadequacies of the speaker. You ever think these words are pure hot air and that is what is heating up our planet? 

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Studies show when we spew words of discouragement to plants, they die. So, the Amazon Rain Forest is not being cut down by cattle ranchers and instead we are killing it with our disparaging words? Our Earth is heating up not from our internal combustion mobile devises, but putrid words towards each other? We are degrading each other to the point where the toxic energy bounces off us and into Earth?

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Banks Helfrich

Candidate for Florida House,
District 25

As a native Floridian, I love this state. As a resident of South Lake County, I love farming and teaching sustainability to this community. As a Candidate for State House, I love finding solutions to the issues of our time.

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