Climate Change - Sane Plain Folks Guide

I'll post a thought every once in a while. I heard one climate change "tip" this weekend, as I changed channels to avoid listening to the largest mass self preening event to take place on earth. It was to use "warm" instead of "hot" water when washing your clothes. Are you kidding me? Folks, hot water isn't just about testing the color fastness of your clothes anymore. Hot water is a gift from God if you ask me and I'm continuing to wash my clothes in the hottest water possible. Go and build a nuclear power plant if you need to so that people can actually, you know, kill germs and be healthy when they wash their clothes!

Contrast this with the concert that was not held to keep people safe from bacteria. From one of my hometown newspapers:

Families at the beach - and advisories warning them to stay out of the water because of high counts of Enterococci bacteria.... That bacteria, which is found in the guts of animals and humans and commonly throughout the environment, is used as an indicator for fecal pollution when it shows up in high numbers. It can wind up in the Sound from contaminated rainwater, overflowing sewage treatment plants, failing septic tanks, wildlife, farms, and a number of other sources (front page Sun Herald, South Mississippi's Newspaper.)

OK.... how about instead of telling people to change their water settings from "warm" to "hot" (ugh, after reading this about our beaches I may use a blow torch on my laundry now) maybe folks with more money than sense can start funding real grants for anti pollution efforts in communities? Like pay a poor folk to replace his septic tank (which can cost a lot for someone with low or no income), or subsidize up to date waste treatment for a farmer, or a town's treatment plant. Put one of the rock stars names on a new sewage treatment plant, and then I'll give them their Boi or Gurl Scout Green Earth merit badge.