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Starfish Along West Coast Are Dying, ‘Star Wasting Disease’ Turn
s Fish Into ‘Goo
By: AGelbert Date: November 5, 2013, 10:35 pm
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Starfish Along West Coast Are Dying, ‘Star Wasting Disease’
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[quote]“Every population has sick animals,” Gaydos said. “Are we
just seeing sick animals because we’re looking for it, or is it
an early sign of a large epidemic that may come through and wipe
out a lot of animals?”
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Surly, Thank you for this article. This is FAR more serious than
meets the eye.
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WHAT EATS A STARFISH?
What Eats A Starfish? What eats starfish?
What do starfish eat?
To us humans, starfish look like they’d be a bit too hard and
crunchy to make a good meal. But starfish do have a few
predators, or natural enemies.
Manta rays, some sharks and other large, bony fishes like to
pick starfish off the bottom of the ocean, crunch them up and
eat them.
In addition, small starfish need to be on the lookout for larger
starfish, which will sometimes attack, kill and eat them.
What do starfish eat? [color=red][size=18pt]Most species eat
mussels and other mollusks, or shellfish.[/color][/size][/quote]
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The reason this is so serious is because the mollusks that
starfish eat are mainly FILTER FEEDERS. Why is this important
(as in OH SHIT! :P)? Because filter feeders are THE life form
that concentrates radioactive cesium (taking it up into their
muscle tissue). I'll bet you dollars to donuts this is a sign of
the Fukushima radioisotopes concentrating in mussels starting to
move up the chain of sea life that eats them.
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It has begun. The BULLSHIT the nuke pukes were always putting
out that the "solution to pollution is dilution" DOES NOT WORK
with living sea life that sucks in the radioisotopes and
concentrates them because, in nature, the non radioactive
elements and the elements these God Damned radioisotopes mimic
ARE ESSENTIAL NUTRIENTS! Radioinuclides are the ULTIMATE poison
pill disguised as an attractive natural important nutrient.
Another "minor detail" the IDIOTS that back nuclear power never
have gotten through their greedy skulls.
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"Since caesium does not volatilise from water, transport of
caesium from water to the atmosphere is not considered
likely,except by windblown sea sprays. Most of the caesium
released to water will adsorb to suspended solids in the water
column and ultimately be deposited in the sediment core. Caesium
can also bioconcentrate and has been shown to bioaccumulate in
both terrestrial and aquatic food chains. Mean bioconcentration
factors (BCF) for 137Cs of 146, 124, and 63 were reported for
fish, brown macroalgae, and molluscs, respectively." :P
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And radioactive cesium is just ONE of the 57 or so
radioinuclides STILL getting pumped into the Pacific ocean. UGH!
:emthdown: :emthdown: :emthdown: :'(
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Re: Pollution
By: AGelbert Date: November 15, 2013, 1:26 am
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Corporate Crooks united to hobble enforcement of environmental
regulations and eliminate them if possible. It's Profits over
planet all the way for A.L.E.C. and their ilk. >:(
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Train loaded with oil derails, explodes, pollutes Alabama wetlan
ds
By: AGelbert Date: November 18, 2013, 12:08 am
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Train loaded with oil derails, explodes, pollutes Alabama
wetlands
By John Upton
Yet another oil-hauling train has derailed and exploded, this
one sending flaming cars loaded with North Dakota crude into
Alabama wetlands. >:(
The 90-car train derailed early Friday, causing flames to shoot
300 feet into the air.
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No
injuries were reported. One family living in the marshy area was
evacuated from their home following the accident. The L.A. Times
has the details:
A train that derailed and exploded in rural Alabama was hauling
2.7 million gallons of crude oil, according to officials.
The 90-car train was crossing a timber trestle above a wetland
near Aliceville late Thursday night when approximately 25 rail
cars and two locomotives derailed, spilling crude oil into the
surrounding wetlands and igniting a fire that was still burning
Saturday.
Each of the 90 cars was carrying 30,000 gallons of oil, said
Bill Jasper, president of the rail company Genesee & Wyoming at
a press briefing Friday night. It’s unclear, though, how much
oil was spilled because some of the cars have yet to be removed
from the marsh.
And here’s more from Reuters:
A local official said the crude oil had originated in North
Dakota, home of the booming Bakken shale patch. If so, it may
have been carrying the same type of light crude oil that was on
a Canadian train that derailed in the Quebec town of
Lac-Megantic this summer, killing 47 people. …
The accident happened in a wetlands area that eventually feeds
into the Tombigbee River, according to the Alabama Department of
Environmental Management. Booms were placed in the wetlands to
contain the spilled oil.
In Demopolis, Alabama, some 40 miles south of the site of the
accident, where the rail line runs 300 meters away from the U.S.
Jones Elementary School, Mayor Michael Grayson said there hadn’t
been an accident in the area in a century of train traffic.
But since last summer, when the oil trains first began humming
past, officials discussed what might happen if a bridge just
outside of town collapsed, dumping crude into the river.
“Sadly, with this thing, the only thing you can do is try to be
prepared,” he said by phone.
Thanks to the North American oil boom, more and more crude is
being shipped by rail — and more and more crude is being spilled
by rail. The Lac-Megantic disaster isn’t the only previous
example. There were 88 rail accidents involving crude oil last
year, up from one or two per year during much of the previous
decade. Other high-profile accidents in North America this year
have included a 15,000-gallon spill from a derailed train in
Minnesota in April and a fiery accident near Edmonton, Alberta,
last month.
These accidents often fuel debate over whether more pipelines
should be built to help safely haul oil and natural gas across
the continent. But pipeline spills are on the rise too. Has
anybody thought of just leaving the filthy stuff in the ground?
>:(
Source
Train carrying crude oil derails, cars ablaze in Alabama,
Reuters
Train in Alabama oil spill was carrying 2.7 million gallons of
crude, L.A. Times
John Upton is a science fan and green news boffin who tweets,
posts articles to Facebook, and blogs about ecology. He welcomes
reader questions, tips, and incoherent rants:
johnupton@gmail.com.
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Re: Pollution
By: AGelbert Date: November 18, 2013, 7:23 pm
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Entire Texan town evacuated after pipeline explosion
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By John Upton
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A Texas town an hour’s drive from Dallas was a ghost town over
the weekend. Plumes of smoke hung ghoulishly over its sky,
visible from more than 25 miles away.
Which company ruined the weekend of the entire town, condemning
its residents to crappy nearby hotel rooms? Chevron.
One of the company’s pipelines exploded early Thursday as a
Chevron crew was working on it, triggering a long-burning fire
and the nearby town’s evacuation. No injuries were reported.
From a CNN report on Saturday:
Police required all residents of Milford, which has an estimated
population of 700, to leave, after the underground pipeline
exploded early Thursday, sending up orange flames stories high,
said spokesman Malcolm Ward.
The Chevron oil company asked that the safety measure be taken,
the company said in a statement Friday. A jet black plume of
smoke has been billowing up towards the clouds. The statement
mentioned not wanting to risk exposing residents to possible
effects on air quality in Milford.
Most of the residents were allowed to return to their homes on
Sunday, but the four families who lived closest to the explosion
were required to spend at least one more night away from home.
That’s because the fire was still burning — three days after the
explosion. Meanwhile, crews were working to ignite residual
petroleum gas left in the isolated stretch of pipeline to
deprive the flames of fuel.
Source
Texas oil pipeline fire causes evacuation of town near Dallas,
CNN
Four homes still evacuated near Milford gas explosion, Fort
Worth Star-Telegram
John Upton is a science fan and green news boffin who tweets,
posts articles to Facebook, and blogs about ecology. He welcomes
reader questions, tips, and incoherent rants:
johnupton@gmail.com.
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Just 90 companies CAUSED TWO THIRDS of man-made global warming e
missions!
By: AGelbert Date: November 20, 2013, 10:41 pm
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Just 90 companies caused two-thirds of man-made global warming
emissions
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The climate crisis of the 21st century has been caused largely
by just 90 companies, which between them produced nearly
two-thirds of the greenhouse gas emissions generated since the
dawning of the industrial age, new research suggests.
The companies range from investor-owned firms – household names
such as Chevron, Exxon and BP – to state-owned and
government-run firms.
The analysis, which was welcomed by the former vice-president Al
Gore as a "crucial step forward" found that the vast majority of
the firms were in the business of producing oil, gas or coal,
found the analysis, which has been accepted for publication in
the journal Climatic Change.
"There are thousands of oil, gas and coal producers in the
world," climate researcher and author Richard Heede at the
Climate Accountability Institute in Colorado said. "But the
decision makers, the CEOs, or the ministers of coal and oil if
you narrow it down to just one person, they could all fit on a
Greyhound bus or two."
Half of the estimated emissions were produced just in the past
25 years – well past the date when governments and corporations
became aware that rising greenhouse gas emissions from the
burning of coal and oil were causing dangerous climate change.
Many of the same companies are also sitting on substantial
reserves of fossil fuel which – if they are burned – puts the
world at even greater risk of dangerous climate change.
Climate change experts said the data set was the most ambitious
effort so far to hold individual carbon producers, rather than
governments, to account.
The United Nations climate change panel, the IPCC, warned in
September that at current rates the world stood within 30 years
of exhausting its "carbon budget" – the amount of carbon dioxide
it could emit without going into the danger zone above 2C
warming. The former US vice-president and environmental
champion, Al Gore, said the new carbon accounting could re-set
the debate about allocating blame for the climate crisis.
Leaders meeting in Warsaw for the UN climate talks this week
clashed repeatedly over which countries bore the burden for
solving the climate crisis – historic emitters such as America
or Europe or the rising economies of India and China.
Gore in his comments said the analysis underlined that it should
not fall to governments alone to act on climate change.
"This study is a crucial step forward in our understanding of
the evolution of the climate crisis. The public and private
sectors alike must do what is necessary to stop global warming,"
Gore told the Guardian. "Those who are historically responsible
for polluting our atmosphere have a clear obligation to be part
of the solution."
Between them, the 90 companies on the list of top emitters
produced 63% of the cumulative global emissions of industrial
carbon dioxide and methane between 1751 to 2010, amounting to
about 914 gigatonne CO2 emissions, according to the research.
All but seven of the 90 were energy companies producing oil, gas
and coal. The remaining seven were cement manufacturers.
The list of 90 companies included 50 investor-owned firms –
mainly oil companies with widely recognised names such as
Chevron, Exxon, BP , and Royal Dutch Shell and coal producers
such as British Coal Corp, Peabody Energy and BHP Billiton.
Some 31 of the companies that made the list were state-owned
companies such as Saudi Arabia's Saudi Aramco, Russia's Gazprom
and Norway's Statoil.
Nine were government run industries, producing mainly coal in
countries such as China, the former Soviet Union, North Korea
and Poland, the host of this week's talks.
Experts familiar with Heede's research and the politics of
climate change said they hoped the analysis could help break the
deadlock in international climate talks.
"It seemed like maybe this could break the logjam," said Naomi
Oreskes, professor of the history of science at Harvard. "There
are all kinds of countries that have produced a tremendous
amount of historical emissions that we do not normally talk
about. We do not normally talk about Mexico or Poland or
Venezuela. So then it's not just rich v poor, it is also
producers v consumers, and resource rich v resource poor."
Michael Mann, the climate scientist, said he hoped the list
would bring greater scrutiny to oil and coal companies'
deployment of their remaining reserves. "What I think could be a
game changer here is the potential for clearly fingerprinting
the sources of those future emissions," he said. "It increases
the accountability for fossil fuel burning. You can't burn
fossil fuels without the rest of the world knowing about it."
Others were less optimistic that a more comprehensive accounting
of the sources of greenhouse gas emissions would make it easier
to achieve the emissions reductions needed to avoid catastrophic
climate change.
John Ashton, who served as UK's chief climate change negotiator
for six years, suggested that the findings reaffirmed the
central role of fossil fuel producing entities in the economy.
"The challenge we face is to move in the space of not much more
than a generation from a carbon-intensive energy system to a
carbonneutral energy system. If we don't do that we stand no
chance of keeping climate change within the 2C threshold,"
Ashton said.
"By highlighting the way in which a relatively small number of
large companies are at the heart of the current carbon-intensive
growth model, this report highlights that fundamental
challenge."
Meanwhile, Oreskes, who has written extensively about
corporate-funded climate denial, noted that several of the top
companies on the list had funded the climate denial movement.
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"For me one of the most interesting things to think about was
the overlap of large scale producers and the funding of
disinformation campaigns, and how that has delayed action," she
said.
The data represents eight years of exhaustive research into
carbon emissions over time, as well as the ownership history of
the major emitters.
The companies' operations spanned the globe, with company
headquarters in 43 different countries. "These entities extract
resources from every oil, natural gas and coal province in the
world, and process the fuels into marketable products that are
sold to consumers on every nation on Earth," Heede writes in the
paper.
The largest of the investor-owned companies were responsible for
an outsized share of emissions. Nearly 30% of emissions were
produced just by the top 20 companies, the research found.
By Heede's calculation, government-run oil and coal companies in
the former Soviet Union produced more greenhouse gas emissions
than any other entity – just under 8.9% of the total produced
over time. China came a close second with its government-run
entities accounting for 8.6% of total global emissions.
ChevronTexaco was the leading emitter among investor-owned
companies, causing 3.5% of greenhouse gas emissions to date,
with Exxon not far behind at 3.2%. In third place, BP caused
2.5% of global emissions to date.
The historic emissions record was constructed using public
records and data from the US department of energy's Carbon
Dioxide Information and Analysis Centre, and took account of
emissions all along the supply chain.
The centre put global industrial emissions since 1751 at 1,450
gigatonnes.
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Which companies caused global warming?
A new paper shows which companies extracted the carbon-based
fuels that have caused climate change.
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Climate debt collectors: Occupy wants the 1% to pay up!
By: AGelbert Date: November 21, 2013, 8:26 pm
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Climate debt collectors: Occupy wants the 1% to pay up
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By Heather Smith
Last year, Strike Debt — a small collective of New York-based
academics, filmmakers, and business types — published a short
book called The Debt Resistors’ Operations Manual [PDF], which
alternated between dispensing advice on how to clean up credit
scores and chronicling the recent history of the finance
industry.
Strike Debt is also known for a project called the Rolling
Jubilee, which buys up old medical and mortgage debt that people
might be despairing of ever paying off, and then erases it. The
Rolling Jubilee earned the somewhat backhanded honor of being
named “one of the few good ideas to come out of Occupy Wall
Street” by Forbes.
The next edition of the The Debt Resistors’ Operations Manual —
currently in the works, and due to be finished next year — will
have something that the original lacked: a chapter on climate
change.
Why the shift? We recently spoke with Andrew Ross, professor of
Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU, who became involved in
Occupy in the early days of Zuccotti Park and helped to launch
the Occupy Student Debt campaign before becoming a member of
Strike Debt. Ross is the author of several books, most recently
Creditocracy: The Case for Debt Refusal, which will be published
this February by OR Books.
Q. With all the large social issues that Occupy and Strike Debt
have raised, why add climate change to the mix?
A. Well, Strike Debt focuses on all kinds of debt: medical
debt, housing debt, credit card debt. We started the Rolling
Jubilee. We really wanted to publicize how the secondary debt
market worked. A lot of people didn’t know how cheaply their
debts have been sold. How lenders are willing to sell your debt
cheaply — but not to you. Knowing how cheaply your debt has been
bought by the person who is trying to collect from you changes
the dynamic. We hoped to raise $50,000, and now we’ve raised
about $630,000 — and abolished $15 million worth of debt.
What changed is, Hurricane Sandy happened. A lot of Strike Debt
people became involved in Occupy Sandy. It drove home links we’d
been talking about when we did the Strike Debt report. People
were waiting for their FEMA loans and these predatory banks were
circling around them.
Climate debt isn’t a part of the political discourse, but
climate debt needs to be honored and repaid. It’s unusual
compared to other kinds of debt because it tends to be the more
affluent populations that are the debtors.
Q. And what are you moving towards?
A. International legal recognition. We’re trying to get
high-carbon countries to acknowledge their responsibility.
At the U.N., the term of choice is “climate aid,” which suggests
that this is an act of benevolence on their part. They avoid
anything that smacks of responsibility.
The decision to fast track climate financing by $30 billion in
the three years after Copenhagen [PDF] is where it gets
complicated. We should finance clean energy technology in
developing countries, but in doing so, most of the emissions
debt that we owe them is being paid back to us through their
emissions cuts. And most of our carbon reductions so far have
come from hyrdofracking for gas or from reduced industrial
activity during the depression. There’s a lot of slick
accounting going on.
These emissions developments are a denial to poor countries of
their atmospheric space. To fully acknowledge carbon debt is to
acknowledge that it is the cause of climate change in the world.
Q. Like, I feel guilty when I fly somewhere, but I still do it
anyway.
A. Oh, don’t feel that.
Q. No?
A. One of the favorite things of really guilty people is to make
people feel ashamed individually. I see a similar thing with
climate debt. The people who are the most responsible get a
pass, and the costs get passed on to us as individuals and the
guilt gets devolved individually rather than being laid at the
door of those responsible. That’s something that needs to be
resisted.
Q. Do you remember if there was any disagreement in putting a
climate change chapter into the handbook?
A. The first edition of The Debt Resistors’ Handbook was put
together very quickly. Now it’s being expanded. I don’t think
there was any debate about whether to include climate debt.
What happens in an environmental disaster is that the patterns
of injustice in our cities become exposed for all to see. The
damage is inflicted on the most vulnerable. It takes its toll
economically. Battery Park City — these high-end condos –
didn’t even lose their electricity. Now there is this whole
debate about the waterfront. What will happen to Zone A? Not
just here, but around the world.
Q. Who else is thinking about this?
A. It’s talked about a lot, back to the ’70s and The Limits to
Growth. You could see the last 30-40 years of wealth
redistribution as a form of hoarding in the face of climate
change.
The People’s Summit in Cochabamba called it an “Adaptation
Fund.” The IMF and the World Bank are on board with climate
change. But I don’t find them putting any pressure on high
climate emitters.
The initial premise of ecological debt was introduced leading up
to 1992 at the Earth Summit in Rio as a reason for cancelling
IMF/World Bank debt. We have five centuries of ecological debt
there — extraction of resources. The slave trade. External debts
owed to northern states. A lot of that stuff is difficult to
quantify.
What you can quantify is carbon debt. There is fairly accurate
data from 1750 onwards on emissions. It wasn’t really until
Copenhagen that the climate justice movement picked it up.
Q. And so, is the U.S. the biggest emitter?
A. Well, If you break it down per capita, the U.K. is a little
greater.
Q. Why?
A.They started the Industrial Revolution a little earlier.
They’ve been going at it ever since. We’re the second largest.
Germany and Australia are third and fourth. China is the largest
emitter now, but they started emitting more recently. If you
factor in their history, China is a creditor, not a debtor.
Some say the nation/state framework is the wrong way to look at
things. The debts owed are also internal — within the borders of
nation states. There are elites within these countries that have
profited greatly from resource extraction and the carbon
economy.
Q. How would you evenly distribute it, then?
A. That’s one of the problems that’s always at the heart of
foreign aid. How do you make sure the money and aid get to the
people who need it?
One of the things I argue for is that the system of distribution
could be done based on income — the carbon tax goes into a
central fund and is paid out.
Q. How did you get interested in this subject personally?
A. I have been writing about this for a while. My last book,
Bird on Fire, was about Phoenix, Ariz. [Editor's note: We spoke
to Ross about the book last year.] There is an issue there with
climate migrants — a lot of the folks who cross borders are
economic refugees, displaced by the effects of climate change.
What rights are they due when they reach this country? This is a
way that this debate about climate enters the borders of our
nation state.
But there is no international legal recognition of what a
climate migrant is. They are the most tangible evidence of
climate change and we will see a lot more of them. Arizona is a
case in point. It’s getting warmer and drier faster than
anywhere else in the hemisphere.
Even if we cut our emissions we’re still locked in for a certain
amount of climate change. What we can do now is plan for
resilience. Which is unfortunate. It does mean that a lot of
people have given up on stopping climate change and are focusing
on fortifying, shoring up, defending.
Heather Smith (on Twitter, @strangerworks) is interested in the
various ways that humans try to save the environment: past,
present, and future.
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Agelbert NOTE: Who knows, maybe somebody out there liked the
article(s) I have written on the 1% and their liability for this
mess. I hope it catches on.
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The 1%'s Responsibility to Shoulder 80% of the COST of a 100%
Renewable Energy World
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19 Year Old Boyan Slat Invents Cleanup System For Plastic Chokin
g Our Oceans
By: AGelbert Date: November 21, 2013, 9:47 pm
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19-Year-Old Aerospace Student Boyan Slat Invents Cleanup System
For Plastic Choking Our Oceans
19-year-old Boyan Slat’s impassioned and educated opinion
reminds us that youth, with its promising vital force, often
taps into genius. If he is correct, Slat has designated some
flair for environmental cleanup. He believes with his idea,
developed for a student project in Aerospace Engineering, that
it is possible the dreadful plastic that is choking the oceans
(poisoning animals and human food chains) can thoroughly clean
itself in 5 years – that is a lot less than the 79,000 years of
another estimate.
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Ocean Cleanup Array. Image Credit: Boyan Slat
Plastic once seemed as a piece of the revolution for a positive
future. Presently, however, plastic has multiplied to an
unfathomable degree, and as in the science fiction novel mention
below, increasing development of plastic is now a twin-edged
point of contention.
It reminds me of the War with the Newts, a 1936 satirical
science fiction novel by Czech author Karel Čapek, but with
plastic replacing the Newts in this novel. Plastic certainly is,
in only a few decades, taking over the world. Increases found in
the most vulnerable of systems, the globe’s water systems,
result in numbers such as 7.25 million tons, and graphic images
such as 1000 Eiffel towers (of plastic garbage) floating in
water.
Some of the most notable places studied where plastic pollution
is evident is in the giant trash gyres (trash vortexes) floating
in the oceans. These plastic garbage patches have been written
about, and vilified, by many, but that has also served as an
excellent visual aid for spurring people to action about
plastics, recycling, and waste in general.
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Ocean Cleanup Array. Image Credit: Boyan Slat
79,000 Years of Cleanup to an Efficient 5 Years
Check out Slat’s The Ocean Cleanup for more details on his plans
to clean up the ocean at an incredible speed. Boyan explains how
he envisions shortening a projection of 79,000 years of cleanup
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And definitely watch this Ted talk below and learn about a
future that he considers viable. I believe that as much as the
Baby Boomers had their ideals, the best thing they did was give
life to younger generations that have a working pragmatism,
scientific curiosity, and a healthy dose of idealism.
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Read more at
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[move]The Younger Generation is THINKING WELL!
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What You Learned In Grade School Is Not Working Anymore
By: AGelbert Date: November 23, 2013, 12:26 am
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Blue Gold: World Water Wars: Official Full Length Film‏
Next World TV
Common Sense Solutions - Starting Now
The Politics And Privitization Of Water
What You Learned In Grade School Is Not Working Anymore
Personally, I was expecting a well produced environmental film
about the polluted state of our water.
It's much deeper than that. Blue Gold is about many aspects of
the world's fresh water crisis, but the most unexpected and
alarming part is the politics of our declining resources and the
privitization of water. Multinational corporations are buying up
the world's fresh water. Riots leading to revolutions are
already happening where the population insists on defending
their water rights.
You will learn why the lessons you were taught in grade school
about how the water cycling through our atmosphere will never
run out, is theoretically true, but not what the situation is
today.
The earth is desertifying at an alarming rate. We are pumping 15
times more water up from the ground than is returning into it.
How does that happen? The film educates us about fascinating
geological changes, and explains how we got to this point.
And did you know how damaging dams are to the whole eco-system?
Vandana Shiva says: "A river is the lifeblood of an eco-system
just like the veins and arteries bring blood to every part of
pour organism. When we have choked arteries that's whats called
as heart attack. A dam is the chocking of the artery."
This film should be seen by every citizen of the world. Pass it
around!
--Bibi Farber
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For more info, see: www.bluegold-worldwaterwars.com for a list
of organizations you can join or support in fighting water wars.
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Re: Pollution
By: AGelbert Date: November 29, 2013, 1:30 pm
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Loathsome List of Externalized Costs
By: AGelbert Date: December 4, 2013, 10:18 pm
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And now for a Loathsome List of Externalized Costs, MOSTLY from
FOSSIL FUELS and NUCLEAR RADIONCLIDE POISONS. :P The chemical
industry also continues to contribute to the TOXIC MESS our
"civilization" is making of the biosphere. :(
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