Maybe, if you live in the world of M. Night. Shyamalan

Well, this is what you get when you elect a Draft Dodger In Chief who was clearly suffering from senile dementia long before he took office. Also you get a neo-fascist corporate government and culture of greed that ships all of our heavy industry and technology manufacturing overseas and reduces our financial services industry to an easily-wrecked house of cards, setting America up for failure in the 21st Century and rendering us incapable of responding to serious military threats, and more or less guaranteeing that we’re going to take the rest of the world down with us when we go. But hey, he had a “grandfatherly smile” and liked jelly beans, so that’s okay, right?
 
@RealityCheck  
Aaannnd the environmental breakdown rate of these mysterious chemicals which you failed to identify? The specific toxicity? The ppm concentration at which the EPA and/or FDA considers them to be toxic vs. the ppm found in surface water? The concentrations which actually reach the water table? Why, the tannins realeased by a single live oak could kill you stone dead!…if you collected them for an entire year and drank them all at once.
 
Surprise, PSEUDOSCIENCE!

@ein-kerl  
Aw I liked him. He reminded me of my grandpa.

@Antonyourknee  
Yes. Ronald Reagan.

@ein-kerl  
Do you know who he’s referring to?

@Background Pony #D831  
And dishonest! Don’t forget dishonest!

elderly, uninformed, puppet of a president of a nation too blown away by it’s newfangled atari’s and coke addictions to give a fuck.

@RealityCheck  
OK, what kind of pollutants? Do they differ from industrial pollutants?

@Background Pony #751A  
But if trees were secreting these chemicals into the water constantly for hundreds of millions of years,then wouldn’t the massive growth of Forrest until about the eighteenth century mean that such chemicals,even if they were dissipating in long terms(many centuries to dissipate) wouldn’t all life have evolved to work with them,similar to oxygen which was once another pollutant by trees that life evolved to use.

@Antonyourknee  
That’s assuming chemicals don’t dissipate over time.

@RealityCheck  
But haven’t trees existed for hundreds of millions of years,if these chemicals are so bad wouldn’t our world be a cesspool of filth by now?

actually, it’s been found that trees emit chemicals classified as pollutants that leach into the groundwater. A typical forest emits more of these chemicals into the water than a decent sized factory. Surprise, SCIENCE.

As counterproductive as this sounds, it’s only slightly off.  
It’s produce that is polluting the environment.

This is ass backwards…

@Background Pony #E19C  
With good reason. ‘Facepalm’ Thank you Ronnie for putting the U.S back a few hundred years…

Reagan haters in this thread. X)

@Background Pony #7815  
If anything, it’s more dishonest.

@FanOfMostEverything  
It’s not much better than that.

@ein-kerl  
I kinda imagined a person yelling that when they protest against road taxes or don’t want to use public transportation while people are generally encouraged to do so.

@Background Pony #2B26  
How?

That sounds more like something some hardcore city idiot would say.

@FanOfMostEverything  
Well, I had that question about evolution before I heard a good explanation.

I once went to a forrest. The place was polluted with trees.

@ein-kerl  
Ohhhh…
 
Thank goodness, at least it has a toe dipped in actual science. The rest lies on possibly deliberate misinterpretation and omission of numerous contributing factors, but I was worried about something on par with “if evolution turned monkeys into men, then why are there still monkeys?”

@Koiyuki  
It’d rather not…