Monday, October 24, 2005
Pollution...
SmartChristian links to this story on computer dumping in India
Oh, and while you're worrying about those old computers, how precisely does it get from the waste pile into the environment? I mean solder doesn't appreciably dissolve in rain.
Let's play America's favorite game - "Pick The Deepest Pocket."
Finally, what's this? Polluted land, not just any polluted land, but land polluted in the worst environmental disaster in human history, is going back into productive use?
Tell me again how we can "destroy the planet."
Much of the lead poisoning in the country was blamed on the city's notorious traffic fumes.Uh, folks, lead is "bioaccumlative." Once it's in your body -- it doesn't leave. Cutting of the source will not result in a decrease in blood levels of lead, it will just stop that levels growth.
In 2000, unleaded fuels took over but while the air cleared, toxic levels remain disturbingly high.
Oh, and while you're worrying about those old computers, how precisely does it get from the waste pile into the environment? I mean solder doesn't appreciably dissolve in rain.
Let's play America's favorite game - "Pick The Deepest Pocket."
Environmentalists sued the Navy on Wednesday, claiming that a widely used form of sonar for detecting enemy submarines disturbs and sometimes kills whales and dolphins.Here's the deal -- "active" sonar, the kind that puts sound in the water, is a major problem. Not only does it zero in on the enemy -- it tells him exactly where you are. It is used very rarely. Militarily, active sonar use has been decreasing steadily since WWII. This ain't nothing but a money grab.
The sonar "is capable of flooding thousands of square miles of ocean with dangerous levels of noise pollution,'' according to the lawsuit filed in federal court in Los Angeles.
Finally, what's this? Polluted land, not just any polluted land, but land polluted in the worst environmental disaster in human history, is going back into productive use?
Tell me again how we can "destroy the planet."
