Oil Nuclear spills

[darkevil]

http://loranablog.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/oil_nuclear_spills.jpg

Most people are aware of the fiasco and environmental disaster happening in the Gulf of Mexico.

The jpeg lists the countries with the worlds largest spills of oil and nuclear waste.

Not surprising the U.S.A and Russia taking up the top spot.

It seems the more developed the country the higher the environmental impact that country has on mother earth.

Question is as we develop as a human species how long before we eventually destroy our very planet because of that development?

 

[Nothxkbi]

Increasing population levels is a good place to start and probably a huge factor in the equation.

Current resources - (What we consume now + population x years?)

 

[Alan]

Yes lets stop developing and go back to living in caves

Oh and how do they define "large". You can't compare Chernobyl to Three Mile Island for example.

 

[Palimino]

Yes lets stop developing and go back to living in caves.

This is a cop-out of epic proportions. It is not a binary, yes/no, toggle scenario. It is a continuum, with profligate waste and carelessness at one end where profit is everything (USA) and your ‘living in caves’ at the other end. Somewhere along the continuum (not at the extremes) is where societies should be. It’s not an either/or. Either we are total environmental pricks, destroying everything for the sake of the almighty $ or we are undeveloped primitives living in caves. There is a middle ground even though moderation may be an alien concept to Americans.

 

[TooFastTim]

Increasing population levels is a good place to start and probably a huge factor in the equation.

Current resources - (What we consume now + population x years?)

Actually not. African countries have experienced a huge population growth over the last 50 yrs but their populations environmental impact is quite small in relation to developed countries.

I'm omitting deforestation in this argument.

 

[Alan]

This is a cop-out of epic proportions. It is not a binary, yes/no, toggle scenario. It is a continuum, with profligate waste and carelessness at one end where profit is everything (USA) and your ‘living in caves’ at the other end. Somewhere along the continuum (not at the extremes) is where societies should be. It’s not an either/or. Either we are total environmental pricks, destroying everything for the sake of the almighty $ or we are undeveloped primitives living in caves. There is a middle ground even though moderation may be an alien concept to Americans.

Americans this, Americans that.....

"moderation" will leave millions 'undeveloped'. It's fine for your cushy privileged 'first worlder' but it leaves the rest in the mire....

 

[Kaine]

did anyone mention the 430 square km oil spill off off the coastal town of one of the most "desirable" places to live in china?

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e548185c-95af-11df-b5ad-00144feab49a.html

 

[Palimino]

Americans this, Americans that.....

"moderation" will leave millions 'undeveloped'. It's fine for your cushy privileged 'first worlder' but it leaves the rest in the mire....

Oh puhleeze! “Moderation” in this context means a smidgeon of consideration for others on the planet. An example of American “moderation” is recorded in a local magazine. The Farmers Weekly is a conservative, sober and slightly stodgy magazine aimed at a farming readership. It is not given to sensationalism. The shocking and appalling American “moderation” is exemplified by the following.

From the Farmers Weekly – 7 March 2008 – Pg. 8 – ‘The Crying Game’ by Sara Webster of Johannesburg.

After hassels with exorbitant fees, electricity and water at Hwange in Zimbabwe she decided to go NW to Kazuma Pans after strenuous discouragement from officials. She went anyway. The nights were silent and the few animals were skittish. Then she found the killing fields (elephant). The children stayed in the car, crying. She looked in the Visitor’s book when she returned to the lodge. Some extracts: (minus the bla, bla)

…secured a 65 pounder, 43” sable and a 7’6” leopard
…Jim’s leopard, eland, kudu, sable, buffalo, giraffe, zebra, hyena and baboon.

The last recorded hunt was in August 2007 by 3 hunters from Utah, Minneapolis and San Diego. The ultimate brag was

“169 elephants in 8 days. Nowhere comes close.

**169** elephant!!!???

The power of the US dollar. Let us all pay homage. A few dollars to bling-crazed Zimbabwean officials (who don’t care) and we can do what we want. We’re American and the world is our oyster. We can destroy and trash other people’s countries; they’re furriners and not Amurican from the land of the free and the home of the brave. They don’t count.

And these psychos claimed they were hunters! A genuine hunter knows more about conservation than any 10 tree hugging, “Save the Whales” groupies. That’s the problem. **Generally** hunters have a much better grasp of Conservation (big C) than others. This is not hunting (its slaughter) and hunting is being brought into disrepute.

The American ‘hunters’ are being held to higher standards than the bling-crazed Zimbabwean officials who only see the short term. I would not expect anything from the clueless and grasping Zimbabwean officials However, they [the hunters] should know better.