Global Oil Extraction... Earthquakes & Tsunamis...
Plan B . . . Go Green
or... Continue with Plan A . . .
For every action ...
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What is causing the global phytoplankton die off...(40% down)link: http://ecodelmar.org/phytoplankton
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In the "reasonable practice" of following the money....
where do the big bucks go for all that war machinery...
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If plants and trees have grown on Earth for billions of years....why must we genetically modify them to grow now... link: http://ecodelmar.org/roundup/ |
Can we correlate the increase in the last 20 years of global deep oil extraction... and the exponential increase in global earthquakes, as is represented in this graph: http://thehorizonproject.com/earthquakes.cfm The cost of not using alternative energy outweighs the costs of developing it .... what is holding us back?
The cost of Doing Nothing: http://ecodelmar.org/doing_nothing/
How long will we simply live in a state of denial of the global environmental and health damage done from extracting and burning fossil fuels. It is the #1 cause of toxic water and air pollution... it is the #1 cause of cancer... global warming,... ocean acidification... death of first born dolphins and whales... children learning disablities and autism : http://ecodelmar.org/pcb ... never ending wars to make never ending profits for the filthy rich buccaneers... at the experience of the Lives of the poor... made into slaves wearing a uniform and waving a flag... enough is enough... it's way past the time to http://ecodelmar.org/GoGreen/
Most of us simply do not accept the environmental challenges we are all facing... the cumulative changes are almost unthinkable... and no humans have ever lived through what is on the horizon for our grand children...
... Sylvia Earle summed it up in 4 words when she was speaking about the state of the Oceans: "No... Blue... No Green"... http://ecodelmar.org/sylvia/
... The cold hearted corporate mentality that got us into this mess can not fix the problems it has caused... and continues to add more toxic waste to... while the republicans have sold out the Clean Water Act to industry... http://ecodelmar.org/clean_water
... Now Peace and civility are going to be essential to reduce chaos and live sustainably...
... Curbing the CO2 and Ocean Acidification is a top priority... from what NOAA says, the Oceans, (as we know them), are already doomed... http://ecodelmar.org//NOAA/ ... algae and jellyfish will become the norm... and lots of that algae will be in toxic algae blooms... that's what happened when they tried to seed the oceans with iron... now phytoplankton is reported to be 40% down and falling at about 1% per year... and the Oceans are our greatest source of oxygen... the following UNEP video sums this up well: http://ecodelmar.org/UNEP/ ...
... and although more trees are surely needed, plants and trees will start to fail as CO2 levels go higher.... so we will need a wide scale sustainably powered CO2 sequestration technology to bring down the CO2 levels... http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=106861
... and since the military is the largest single consumer of oil on Earth... real Peace is essential to save civilization... http://ecodelmar.org/Green_Military/ ... Peace... and lots of Gardens of Eden... everywhere... and that's a wonderful part of this new possibility... as my friend Shawn Tisdell said so profoundly... "almost every problem we face, can be solved with a garden"... http://ecodelmar.org/garden/
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Green Incentives For Green Energy. Not Nukes!
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shortcut link: http://ecodelmar.org/no_nukes/
CO2 level over the past 160 thousand years
Graph: Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration (ppmv) and temperature change (°C) observed during the past 160 thousand years and predicted during the next 10 thousand years. Historical carbon dioxide data was collected from Antarctic ice cores; temperature changes through time are relative to the present temperature. Graph adapted from the Whitehouse Initiative on Global Climate Change.
http://EcoDelMar.org/awareness/
Past and future Oceanic pH
Future predictions are
model derived values based on IPCC
mean scenarios (Cambridge University)
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http://EcoDelMar.org/awareness/
..:: "Phytoplankton produce more oxygen than all plant life on Earth and are vital in maintaining the earth’s atmosphere. They are also the organisms most likely to be affected by global warming and climate change.
..:: Fish species will be threatened by increasing acidity ( - pH) through acidosis, which is a buildup of carbonic acid in body fluids leading to death. Hyper-capnia, or excessive carbon dioxide in the blood, threaten fish species of the future. A study concluded that elevated levels of carbon dioxide can result in high levels of mortality for amberjack and halibut.
A recent study concluded that decreases in ocean pH by 0.5 units or more may severely disrupt the internal acid-base balance of sea urchins, which can ultimately result in their death.
Cephalopods such as squid might be particularly affected by increased oceanic carbon dioxide because they require very high amounts of oxygen supply to the blood to sustain their energy-demanding method of swimming. Lower levels of pH can impair oxygen supplies in these species, reducing oxygen capacity by about 50 percent with a pH decrease of 0.25 units.
http://www.terrain.org/articles/21/burns.htm
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..:: as the ocean loses its ability to absorb carbon dioxide, its ability to regulate our global climate and supply oxygen will falter, resulting in reduced breathable oxygen....
http://treehugger.com/files/2010/07/today-on-planet-100-ocean-acidification-101-video.php
..:: Ocean Acidification and the Effects to Open Ocean and Coastal Ecosystems Presentation by Dr. Richard Feely, AGU Fellow and Supervisory Oceanographer at the NOAA Marine Environmental Laboratory.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NelQ2cxoEUc
..:: With NOAA under the dept of "commerce"... how can we expect anything but "business" as usual....
..:: "Ocean Acidification is now irreversible during our lifetimes...
It will take tens of thousands of years for ocean chemistry to return to a condition similar to that occurring at pre-industrial times (about 200 years ago)....
Our ability to reduce ocean acidification through artificial methods such as the addition of chemicals is unproven. These techniques will at best be effective only at a very local scale, and could also cause damage to the marine environment...
Reducing CO2 emissions to the atmosphere is the only practical way to minimize the risk of large-scale and long term changes to the oceans...
http://www.global-greenhouse-warming.com/ocean-acidification.html
..:: "For all practical purposes in our lifetime... Ocean Acidification is "permanent", Emerson said.
..:: A San Francisco environmental group, the Center for Biodiversity, has asked 10 states — Washington, Oregon, California, Alaska, Hawaii, Florida, New York, New Jersey, Maine and Delaware — to declare their coastal waters "impaired" under the Clean Water Act because of rising acidity. Such a move could clear the way for the states to regulate carbon-dioxide emissions.
"Though the SCIENCE is there, the "political will" is NOT there," said Miyoko Sakashita, a lawyer for the Center for Biodiversity. "At least this will raise awareness among policymakers."
Though cuts in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse-gas emissions might slow or reverse global warming, scientist say it could take thousands of years or longer to reverse the increased acidity of the oceans.
"For all practical purposes in our lifetime... Ocean Acidification is "permanent", Emerson said.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2007/12/16/23138/oceans-growing-acidity-alarms.html
..:: The report, in Science magazine, brings together dozens of studies that collectively paint a dismal picture of deteriorating ocean health.
..:: "This is further evidence we are well on our way to the next great extinction event," said Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, the director of the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland in Australia and a co-author of the report.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/07/04/96966/report-oceans-deteriorating-health.html
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phyto-plankton dropping... http://www.i-sis.org.uk/O2DroppingFasterThanCO2Rising.php
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Nature :: worldwide supply of phytoplankton has dropped by about 40% since 1950... http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/07/phytoplankton-dammerung
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CO2 is killing Oceans' Microscopic 'LUNGS' :: http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/climate-change-is-killing-the-oceans-microscopic-lungs-427402.html
Methane release from the not-so-perma-frost..
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... is the most dangerous amplifying feedback in the entire carbon cycle. The permafrost contains a staggering “1.5 trillion tons of frozen carbon, about twice as much carbon as contained in the atmosphere,” much of which would be released as methane. Methane is is 25 times as potent a heat-trapping gas as CO2 over a 100 year time horizon, but 72 times as potent over 20 years! The carbon is locked in a freezer in the part of the planet warming up the fastest (see “Tundra 4: Permafrost loss linked to Arctic sea ice loss“). Half the land-based permafrost would vanish by mid-century on our current emissions path (see “Tundra, Part 2: The point of no return” and below). No climate model currently incorporates the amplifying feedback from methane released by a defrosting tundra...
http://climateprogress.org/2011/01/13/science-kiehl-ncar-paleoclimate-lessons-from-earths-hot-past/
Fracking Millions of Gallons of Hazardous Chemicals
Injected Into US Water Supply Wells...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/science/earth/17gas.html
Oil and gas companies put toxic chemicals into wells in a drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing, according to a Congressional study.
Hydrofracking Pushed By Agents Instructed
To Mislead Landowners: Report
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/18/post_676_n_850425.html
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... sometimes i wonder if the big gas, oil, and industrial cahoots are not just getting rid of their mega-tons of stockpiles of chemical waste by "fracking" it deep into the Earth and into the Gulf... because it saves them money by not hav...ing to recycle it... and those buccaneering knuckle-headed tycoons could care less about coral reefs, dolphins and whales... it's all about protecting their cash cow(s)... what ever happened to protecting our Oceans and The Clean Water Act: http://ecodelmar.org/clean_water
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It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. ~Krishnamurti
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. ~Moliere
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Is the FDA: Subsidiary of Monsanto?
By Betty Martini, Mission Possible International
Dear Dr. Friedman:
Is this why you looked at the case histories of those who suffered shattered lives from the agony of Aspartame Disease for years, and did absolutely NOTHING!? Or is this Monsanto’s reward for your lack of concern of this plague on the consumer public in 100 countries. You worked for the ( government sponsored!) National Cancer Institute??!! And you read the Bressler Report, the FDA audit, showing aspartame triggered brain tumors, mammary tumors, ovarian tumors, pancreatic tumors, uterine tumors, pituitary adenomas, etc., etc., and turned the other way, even sent the cases where victims died from these brain tumors. Just silence. No wonder when Dr. Olney made world news about the brain tumor/aspartame connection you got on 60 Minutes defending Monsanto. How long has this position been considered? How relevant it was for Dr. Virginia Weldon (V.P.for Public Policy at Monsanto) to have also been on that show since later she was considered for the FDA Commissioner post. Perhaps you can understand why I call the FDA, Monsanto’s Washington Branch Office.
I told you previously Monsanto who made Celebrex knows aspartame hardens the synovial fluids and triggers agonizing joint pain. This is their way to make even more money on the victims treating the problem their product caused. Now that it has been publicized that 10 people died in 13 weeks and the other problems I guess we won’t expect the FDA to recall it -especially now that you will work for the company.
http://dorway.com/history-of-aspartame/monsanto/monsanto-names-former-fda-chief-as-vp-of/
Greening The Military...
:: Stop Flow of Toxic PCBs From Sunken Ships Bombed for Navy Target Practice ::
:: New Coalition Formed to Protect Human Health and Marine Environment ::
:: SAN FRANCISCO-- The Center for Biological Diversity has joined the Basel Action Network and Sierra Club in their effort to eliminate dangerous chemicals from our oceans. The coalition formally petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency today to regulate toxic polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) released into the ocean as a result of the Navy's Sinking Exercise (SINKEX) Program.
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2012/sinkex-04-11-2012.html
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http://ecodelmar.org/Green_Military
Plan B . . . Go Green
or... Continue with Plan A . . .
Earth Focus
http://LINKTV.org/video/4158/earth-focus-episode-15-greening-the-military
The Department of Defense is the single largest consumer of petroleum in the U.S and the US military is the biggest purchaser of oil in the world. In 2006 the
US Military consumed 117 million barrels or 320,000 barrels per day.
Who approves the payments for all that OIL... and who profits from the sales of this #1 cause of climate change and Ocean Acidification.
If the scientists are correct, our own military may be the #1 cause of our looming human extinction...
This video report from 12 retired military Admirals and Generals is openly stating that irregardless of the profits, the military must go to an alternative "Green Energy" ASAP to avoid the repercussions,
if it's not already too late.
The Oceans of Earth are currently absorbing One Million TONS of carbon dioxide PER HOUR of industrial CO2 in the atmosphere....
http://www3.ncc.edu/faculty/bio/fanellis/biosci119/SEAWATER.htm
Even slightly acidified seawater is toxic to the eggs and larvae of some fish species. In others, including amberjack and halibut, it can cause heart attacks, experiments show. Acidified waters also tend to asphyxiate animals that require a lot of oxygen, such as fast-swimming squid.
If CO2 emissions continue at their current pace, the pH of the ocean is expected to dip to 7.9 or lower by the end of the century -- a 150% change.
The last time ocean chemistry underwent such a radical transformation, Caldeira said, "was when all the dinosaurs went extinct."
B52 bomber (only pictured above) consumes 3,300 gallons per HOUR...
Who approves the payments for all that OIL... and who profits from the largest sales on Earth...
In 2006 Air Force consumed around 2.6 billion gallons of jet-fuel which is the same amount of fuel U.S. airplanes consumed during WWII (between December 1941 and August 1945). The mighty B52 bomber (pictured above) consumes 3300 gallons per hour, the F16 Falcon burns 800 gallons per hour and the KC-135 Statotanker an aerial refueling tanker aircraft consumes 2650 gallons per hour.
The Department of Defense is the single largest consumer of petroleum in the U.S and the US military is the biggest purchaser of oil in the world. In 2006 the US Military consumed 117 million barrels or 320,000 barrels per day.
http://newlaunches.com/archives/top_5_facts_on_us_military_oil_consumption.php
The oceans are absorbing One Million Tons of carbon dioxide PER HOUR from the atmosphere ....
http://www.postindependent.com/article/20101111/VALLEYNEWS/101119984/1083&ParentProfile=1074
An environmental news magazine that puts a human face on the environment by featuring under-publicized stories about how changes in our environment are affecting everyday people.
The "fully burdened" cost of fuel accounts for the cost of transporting it to where it is needed, Geiss said. And moving fuel by convoy or even airlift is expensive.
"In some places you have to fly it in by plane or by helicopter and drop off bladders of fuel," he said. "Those costs can be an additional $200 a gallon. To complete that mission with weapons a system in a remote location in Afghanistan, for a week, you (might) need 1,000 gallons. For us to get that in there, it's going to cost us maybe $200 a gallon. So that's $200,000."
In some places, Geiss said, analysts have estimated the fully burdened cost of FUEL might even be as high as $1,000 per gallon.
Energy consumed by a combat vehicle may not even be for actual mobility of the vehicle, Geiss said, but instead to run the systems onboard the vehicle, including the communications equipment and the cooling systems to protect the electronics onboard.
One combat vehicle, Geiss said, operates an 800-horsepower power plant -- of which only 200 horsepower are used for mobility. The rest is to power the vehicle's subsystems.
"What is it cooling? Electronics and sensors, some for the engine," Geiss said. "That's how significant this other stuff is."
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2009/07/mil-090716-arnews05.htm
From the Carbon Monitoring for Action (Carma) website, the list of worst polluting countries by their power stations (in tons of CO2):
* US - 2,530 million
* China - 2,430 million
* Russia - 600 million
* India - 529 million
* Japan - 363 million
* Germany - 323 million
* Australia - 205 million
* South Africa - 201 million
* UK - 192 million
* South Korea - 168 million
U.S. Government Looting Social
Security To Wage Wars
2011 article by Sherwood RossAmericans, apparently, are unaware of how the federal government’s illegal, foreign wars sap the economy and rob every household. The Iraq war cost alone is 20 percent of the size of last year’s entire U.S. economy. Instead of investing that sum at home, “which would have produced income and jobs growth and solvency for state and local governments, the US government wasted the equivalent of 20% of the economy in 2010 in blowing up infrastructure and people in foreign lands,” Roberts says.
“The US government spent a huge sum of money committing war crimes, while millions of Americans were thrown out of their jobs and foreclosed out of their homes,” he added. Viewed another way, the Pentagon continues to expand and put people to work to modernize its 700-800 bases abroad in order to dominate every corner of the globe while public works and public employment in America are going into the toilet.
Massive Oil Extraction... More Earthquakes & Tsunami?
Yearly Oil War Tax Paid by the people
ref: http://armscontrolcenter.org/policy/securityspending/articles/US_vs_Global/
Will There Be Life After Wartime...
... the United States flew 580,000 bombing runs over Laotians an average of ONE EVERY EIGHT MINUTES for NINE YEARS. Today, Laotians live and die among 80 million unexploded munitions, some of them valuable as scrap metal or turned into flower boxes, many of them as dangerous as the day they dropped from the sky...
Text by Karen J. Coates | Photography by Jerry Redfern
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http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/201101/laos.aspx
Earth Focus
http://www.linktv.org/video/4158/earth-focus-episode-15-greening-the-military
The environmental issues raised in this 27 minute video are major causes of extinction of Life on planet Earth...
http://EcoDelMar.org/Green_Military
The EPA Could Keep Millions
of Pounds of Toxic Waste
Out of America's Waterway
REF: http://www.sys-con.com/node/1605163
It is no secret that the U.S. military has used the ocean as trashcan for munitions in the past. Peter discussed at the Old DSN how federal lawmakers were pressing the US Army to talk about it's massive international program to dump chemical weapons off homeland and foreign shores. "The Army now admits that it secretly dumped 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard agents into the sea, along with 400,000 chemical-filled bombs, land mines and rockets and more than 500 tons of radioactive waste - either tossed overboard or packed into the holds of scuttled vessels." Brian pointed me to the Daily Press's in depth coverage of this whole issue. Registration is free and only takes a minute or two and is extremely worthwhile. Included at the site are maps of disposal sites (downloadable as pdfs), stories, descriptions of items dumped including nerve and mustard gas, and rather depressing pictures some are below the fold (all from the Daily Press).
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Earth's Oceans Loosing Phytoplanton and Oxygen...
http://EcoDelMar.org/phytoplankton
Defending our Oceans The front line of environmental crime
On the surface, the ocean may look calm and serene. But, beneath the surface is a different story. All around the world, our oceans are in crisis. Whale slaughter continues to put endangered species at risk and pollution from land-based sources is turning the oceans into a dumping ground. Throughout the seven seas, there are many industries committing crimes against nature, but no one is holding them accountable.
http://Greenpeace.org/oceans/
http://Greenpeace.org/the-front-line-of-environment/
Greenpeace and the Italian environmental group Lega Ambiente
have been compiling lists of ships that have disappeared off Italy and
Greece as they pursue reports of boats laden with toxic substances being
sunk.
A Greenpeace official, Alessandro Gianni, told Associated
Press Television News in an interview that his organization tried to
learn the fate of ships that might have been involved in toxic dumping.
http://EcoDelMar.org/sea-x-ray/
http://www.mnn.com/robot-sub-hunts-toxic-waste-off-italian-coast
http://Greenpeace.org.uk/blog/nuclear/mafia-accused-of-trafficking-nuclear-waste
With the glaring exception of the military and reckless industrial tycoons... WE THE PEOPLE demand that the common industrial "money
saving" practice of TOXIC OCEAN DUMPING BE STOPPED... ... and because no one can manage what they can't measure... we need to
know the FACTS that have been hidden from the public, who simply don't understand why they are dying of cancer, please see the
most current data at:
http://WorldoMeters.info/view/toxchem/
GIGA TONS of toxic chemicals, dispersants, solvents, and PCBs dumped by industry and the military into the only known Living Oceans in the entire universe... these chemicals are known to be Toxic to Living cells, such as phytoplankton... thereby impairing the ability for phytoplankton to absorb giga tons CO2... and to make the Life giving OXYGEN that PHYTOPLANKTON has freely produced for millions of years until we started burning mountains of COAL and tankers of OIL driving Life on Earth to the brink of extinction... for profit... virtually stealing the raw materials from Nature.
The environmental issues we all face today are directly related to the
giga tons of CO2 and industrial toxic chemicals dumped into the
atmosphere and waterways leading to the Oceans.
Reported to the public at http://www.worldometers.info/view/toxchem
http://EcoDelMar.org/pcb
http://EcoDelMar.org/clean_water
http://EcoDelMar.org/phytoplankton
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Planned "Toxic Chemical Release", Report On Rising Levels:
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Mercury and PCB Pollution RISE Dramatically (EPA)
Releases of mercury, PCBs, lead and dioxin into the environment increased significantly between 2006 and 2007, according to the annual "Toxics Release Inventory," published by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
"This information underscores the need for fundamental transparency
and provides a powerful tool for protecting public health and the environment,"
said EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson. "Serving the public’s right
to know is the crucial first step in reducing toxic chemicals in the places
where we live, work and raise children."
The "Toxics Release Inventory" classifies all releases together,
including legal and illegal dumping, disposal in mine reclamation ponds
(which leach into groundwater) and disposal in toxic dump sites.
Between 2006 and 2007, PCB releases INCREASED by 40 percent, due to disposal
of supplies manufactured before the substances were banned in 1979. Mercury
releases, mostly due to mining, INCREASED by 38 percent. Dioxin releases
increased by 11 percent, and lead releases INCREASED. Overall releases
of all persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic chemicals or metals also increased.
PCBs and dioxins are well know to be highly toxic to marine life and children.
Both accumulate in animals (including human) bodies and disrupt the body’s
hormonal and reproductive systems. Lead and mercury can cause neurological
and behavioral problems, particularly in children. All four pollutants
are especially dangerous to pregnant women and children, due to their effects
on the body’s development.
According to the "Toxics Release Inventory," slight decreases
in air and water pollution occurred between 2006 and 2007 -- 7 percent
and 5 percent, respectively.
In December 2006, the Bush administration implemented a rule diluting the
thoroughness of the EPA’s toxic release reporting program. In March
of this year, however, President Obama signed a law overturning the Bush
policy.
"The public does have a "right to know" about the toxic
chemicals in the air and water," said New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg,
who authored the law. "The Bush administration diluted the law and
let industrial facilities hide the critical data about the toxic chemical
emissions. It is time to restore the public’s "right to know"
about the release of toxic chemicals in their communities."
Source: www.ens-newswire.com and
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Cooking with Natural Gas...
www.epa.gov
PCBs are also present in natural gas pipelines as a result of the
historical practice of oil 'fogging'. Reclaimed transformer oils,
containing PCBs, were used...
http://epa.gov/compliance/resources/publications/monitoring/tsca/manuals/pcbinspect/pcbinspectappg.pdf
The CLEAN WATER ACT of 1972 was clearly created to protect Americas
rivers, streams, and tributaries that carry water for drinking and
eventually arriving to the only Living Oceans in the known universe.
Now a single word, "navigable", threatens to undo years of protection
against the industrial dumping of millions of tons of known carcinogens
into our Rivers and Oceans.
Because of the wording "navigable waters", the law might not
apply to small creeks that lead to rivers... "Court Cases are now being
"lost" because industry is dumping into a "small stream" that flows
into a river, rather than the river itself," said David M. Uhlmann, a
law professor at the University of Michigan who led the environmental
crimes section of the Justice Department.
Hundreds of Million of Americans get their drinking water from sources
fed by waters that are now vulnerable to exclusion from the "Clean Water
Act" of 1972.
Half of the major polluters might become outside the "navigable" regulatory reach.
In many US states, big polluters say the "CLEAN WATER ACT of 1972" no
longer applies to them... and are therefore refusing to renew or apply
for permits, making it impossible to monitor what they are dumping, say
US officials.
Setting an example, the US Air Force Base near Clovis, N.M., for
instance, recently informed the E.P.A. that it no longer considers
itself subject to the CLEAN WATER ACT of 1972.
More than 200 "oil spill" rulings have recently become "delayed".
"We are, in essence, shutting down our Clean Water programs in
some states," said Douglas F. Mundrick, an E.P.A. lawyer in Atlanta.
"This is a huge step backward. When companies figure out the cops can't
operate, they start remembering how much cheaper it is to just dump the
tons of toxic leftovers into a nearby creek."
"If you can get Glenn Beck to say that government storm troopers are
going to invade your property and check into your mud-puddles, farmers
will panic in the Midwest and "light up" their congressmen’s
switchboards," said the coalition member, who asked not to be
identified.
Source: NYtimes.com/2010/03/01/us/water
Our task must be to free ourselves of this prison by widening our
circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of
nature in its beauty. ( including phytoplankton )
-Albert Einstein
TOP 10 US WATERWAYS UNDER ATTACK
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Parkersburg News and Sentinel:
America's Ohio River leads the nation in toxic discharge:
A NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP has released a study indicating two
rivers are among the TOP 10 WATERWAYS for total toxic discharge... The
bulk of the New River's 14 MILLION pounds of toxic discharge is largely
the result of the U.S. Army Radford Army Ammunition plant in Radford,
Va. The study claims the plant is responsible for more than 13.6 million
pounds of toxic pollutants into the New River. Calls to the West
Virginia Department of Environmental Protection office in Parkersburg
were referred to Charleston. After several days of leaving messages,
officials in Charleston referred questions to Melyssa Savage, Title III
program manager for the West Virginia Division of Homeland Security and
Emergency Management Agency. Savage was out of the office...
Tennant said. "Publishing of this information and making it available to the PUBLIC has a real impact."
Tennant said companies listed in the report very well might see this and issue corporate directives to clean up.
According to ORSANCO, the OHIO RIVER is a SOURCE of DRINKING WATER for
more than three million PEOPLE and more than 25 million PEOPLE live in
the Ohio River Basin.
The Emergency Management Agency contact person, was 'out of the office'...
http://ecodelmar.org/Green_Military
http://ecodelmar.org/phytoplankton
http://www.newsandsentinel.com/page/content.detail/id/523273.html?nav=5061
... this "51 second" video won first place at the Cannes Film Festival and when you watch it you'll see why... it is one of the most touching videos you will ever see...
... "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field ... I'll meet you there ... When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about ... Ideas, language, even the phrase "each other" doesn't make any sense... ~ Rumi (1207-1273)
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larry_l
Flagler Beach, FL USA
Getting the Ocean's health into perspective.
As scientist Jim Lovelock observed, "Although the weight of the Oceans is 250 times that of the atmosphere, it is only one part in 4,000 of the weight of the Earth."
1/4000 = 0.00025
Therefore, only 0.025 % of Earth's mass is Water. Yet we tend to think of our Oceans as vast and an endless resource, free to everyone.
Scientists also point out, "If the Earth were a globe 12 inches in diameter, the average depth of the ocean would be no more than the thickness of a piece of paper, and even the Deepest Ocean Trench would only be a tiny dent, one third of a millimeter deep. (0.3 mm = 0.01 in)
Since the Ocean's mass is 0.025% that of Earth's, our Oceans can be appreciated as the scarce and only living Oceans in the entire universe. Mars might have some frozen mud.
Knowing the Earth's "surface" is 70.8% water, often leads the public to jump to a popular conclusion... there might be more Ocean than Earth.
Unfortunately, this popular conclusion leads to a "global assumption"... that pollution might be absorbed and simply rendered harmless... within the Ocean's vastness.
Millions of Tons of toxic chemicals are discarded into rivers worldwide, while the industry leaders "cross their fingers" in a futile false hope that the chemicals will quietly be absorbed by the living Oceans.
Plastic does not really "break down", but it does break into tiny bits of plastic "dust". PCB's, already in the Ocean, are attracted to the plastic bits like a magnetic sponge. Marine animals eat the plastic bits, and become toxic with PCB's, causing immune system failure.
As the toxins slowly distribute worldwide by the Ocean's conveyor belt currents, the entire food chain is affected, from the tiny coral polyps that make world's largest reefs, to whales feeding on plankton and other particles suspended in the water column, including PCB laden plastic "dust".
An impairment to the immune systems of living creatures is being observed globally, from the tiny coral polyps, to the giant killer whales, and finally the humans themselves, seated at the top of the food chain, consuming the industrial leftovers, that do not bio-degrade in nature for hundreds of years.
Now PCB's are being dumped onto agricultural land or incinerated into the atmosphere by industry in another futile attempt to rid themselves of chemicals they synthesized and are responsible for. I say the manufacture must not be allowed to dump these toxic chemicals in the rivers and must take them back for recycling: http://ecodelmar.org/TakeItBack/
While we are still scrambling to name the new coral reef diseases, and counting growing number of species that are becoming extinct, all the while with more funding going to concern over the stock market.
As a free nation... we the people... spent more of our own tax dollars exploring the mud on Mars than protecting the only "Living Oceans" in the known universe... as our planet become less inhabitable for humans. Who is really steering this over-heating planet, big business persons? Is bowing to the stock market index given a higher priority than the World's Ocean Health index, in Washington... http://ecodelmar.org/MBA_blindness
As we all awaken to the collapse of our Oceans, finally we begin to see the consequences of giving the "green light" to industry for dumping millions of tons of "known toxins" into the only known living Oceans in the entire universe.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau, must be looking down on the Oceans and their bleached coral reefs... with salty tears in his eyes. Link to The Cousteau Team results: http://EcoDelMar.org/results
Our Oceans
We have the only living Oceans in the entire universe, unless you know of another one.
Our planet is running full-steam-ahead by giant industrial strength polluters.
Industrial pollution is impairing the immune system of life in the Oceans.
Tons of toxic chemicals are still being dumped into rivers worldwide by industrial giants, who will destroy the Oceans, in order to make more profit.
home page:
http://EcoDelMar.org
Info about PCBs:
http://EcoDelMar.org/pcb
Cousteau Team results
http://EcoDelMar.org/results
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