Seasons.  There are four of them, and depending upon where you live, maybe you experience all of them in a single day. Or, perhaps there is one season that refuses to leave, in which case, you may have never had the opportunity to experience the annual quarterly event widely known as the ‘changing of the seasons.’   But if you happen to find yourself in the Northeast corridor of the USA, particularly in the September to October time period, you know.  Notwithstanding the fiery debate surrounding Global Warming and Climate Change, and the fact that the weather, which was at one time considered to be a signal of those changing seasons, has now become erratic, not to mention a highly contentious subject among both believers and naysayers alike.  And everyone else in between.   While the calendar still reliably provides the precise date that one season leaves and a new one marches in, the weather itself is no longer exactly in agreement.  If, however, the weather decides to cooperate and square with the calendar, and when the seasonal baton changes hands, the difference from one season to the next is unmistakable. For some, it is the season changes from Summer to Fall and Winter to Spring that are the most celebrated as we bid a not-so-fond farewell to those unpredictable extremes in anticipation of peace and uneventful calm.  Even if it only lasts for a little while.  Notably, from Summer to Fall, after having spent so many days enduring the oppressive humidity and blistering heat to unceremoniously wake up one day to cool, crisp air is a long-awaited relief.  When you open your door on no particular day and walk outside, all doubts are erased as the cool wind kisses your cheeks and causes the hair on your arms and neck to stand upright as your body adjusts to the change in the temperature.  Fall has arrived.  Soon we will see the color of the leaves, once previously green, become vibrant in varying shades of gold and red until they drop off of their tree only to dry out, becoming dull and lifeless.  The trees themselves will eventually become devoid of all color as they brace for a cold Winter that is historically, and in accordance with the calendar, soon to follow. Unless, of course, Climate Change and Global Warming are not real in which case ‘cold’ is interpretive while the climate finds itself stuck in the crosshairs of heated negotiations.  Nevertheless, the calendar serves as an outsourced conduit, reliable or not, between Mother Nature and us.  As many have come to realize that the calendar really has only one job which is to report each year holidays, season changes and the phases of the Moon.  Even though it is generally viewed as not much more than a universal baseline guide with pictures and very small print that sells on average for about $14.95.  And thanks to Climate Change, Mother Nature’s seasonal credibility has really become just a perennial footnote on a piece of cheap cardstock that hangs on walls everywhere.  While we have become a modern-day, insufferable society who choose to squander an inordinate amount of precious time complaining and denying the damage, that we are solely responsible for, while we defiantly shift the blame to Mother Nature, an obvious scapegoat.  Henry David Thoreau said, “As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”  And the truth is, regardless of how far we cast the long line of blame, it is not really Mother Nature who has reneged on her promises in more ways than we can count.  Pollution, as we know it, is defined as deterioration, contamination and a general misuse of the environment to the point that it becomes irreversibly damaged and unsalvageable in many places.  We know that Global Warming is a by-product, an unfortunate side effect of the changes in the climate that are due in large part to human activities.   Now that idea is wildly unpopular among some even though it is neither a new revelation nor is it in any way based on presumption.  Really, it is just another example of common sense that is heavily disputed and wholly ignored by the naysayers, otherwise known as ‘those who choose to ignore and/or dispute proven facts.’  The environmental deterioration that we are all bearing witness to is undeniably a direct result of cause and effect.  That is to say that it is our behaviors and mistreatment of the planet that have been the cause, and the effect is Global Warming.  And if that uncomplicated fact is true, then Henry David Thoreau had it right when he said, “Things do not change; we change.”  With the result of those changes proving to be catastrophic.  But we also know that pollution can take many forms, some that you can see clearly while others are elusive and not as obvious to the naked eye.  Because it is human activities and behaviors that, over time, have become the pollutant and have disrupted and compromised the survival of all living and non-living things which can be summarized as pretty much everything.  We can simplify all of the damage and give it the label of ‘pollution’ that has been formed by garbage, or we can just call it what it is which is a gross deficiency in human behavior.  And unless that changes, nothing will change while optimism is waning almost as quickly as the climate and changing weather patterns. Because as a collective society we have proven that we cannot have nice things, and we can corrupt and pollute just about anything.  Are we the destroyed or the destroyers, the victims or the perpetrators, the advocates or the accomplices?  The problem is, like the calendar to the weather, our claims do not square with our actions.  Henry David Thoreau is quoted as having said, “The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”  And that is exactly the point.  Even while evidence generally always points to the …