Our seas are in Danger...and so are we!!!
The Tribune group offers a 5-part series that examines our endangered seas and their struggle to deal with the torrent of waste humans pour into them every day. There are Billions of us dumping waste and trash into our waterways, and there isn't a body of water world wide that is not touched.
Even the most remote seas, like the Kara or the White Sea...once considered the purest of oceanic waters...are dead or dying because man has polluted them with nuclear waste or industrial poisons.
We can’t just stand by as mankind is returning the seas to a time when algae and jellyfish ruled. Crucial habitats are falling victim to the changing chemistry of the water. Take a look, and then take a stand.
It is time to stop and begin to reverse the course we have set and to begin to heal the earth around us.
posted by Moon Shadow @ 6:31 AM
2 Comments:
Kinda simple answer really - genocide, euthanasia, population control. Limit the demand and the resource will be there - until that happens it's just treating the symptom and not the disease.
Human nature is take, tis better to receive than give, ask ANY toddler when placed with another toddler in a room of toys. Both want what the other one has and they fight over it. Put em in separate rooms with toys and they play well. . .
Taxes, fines, surcharges, excise, use or any other word you wish to apply to a company or consumer to limit our consumption doesn't work because it just drives product price up or lowers profit and the item goes out of circulation.
Recycle is a joke, there is a newspaper recycler in southern WA. state or northern Oregon that does newspapers (redundant, I know) and sells the paper for a few dollars a roll less than new after all the expenses. Sure, we recycle plastic - as long as it has the proper number on the bottom but try and get rid of the plastic bags you get from shopping, doesn't happen. Glass, our recycle won't take broken glass. There's a product called glasscrete, concrete made from cement, aggregate and ground glass BUT it's faster, easier and requires no processing (other than washing) to dig sand which is inexhaustible.
So, do we just put our heads in that inexhaustable sand...or do we try to do something?
Green Peace says...'think globally, act locally!'
what can we and should we do?
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