How many sneaky companies and institutions have used the ocean as a dumping ground, thinking it didn’t matter?
The nation’s largest DDT manufacturer once dumped its waste into the deep ocean. As many as half a million barrels could still be underwater today, according to old records and a recent UC Santa Barbara study that provided the …
How many sneaky companies and institutions have used the ocean as a dumping ground, thinking it didn’t matter?
The nation’s largest DDT manufacturer once dumped its waste into the deep ocean. As many as half a million barrels could still be underwater today, according to old records and a recent UC Santa Barbara study that provided the first photos of this pollution bubbling 3,000 feet under the sea. Possibly hundreds of thousands of barrels and DDT-laced sediment were dumped just 12 miles off the coast. How many companies have illegally dumped waste into the ocean and will they ever be held accountable?
DDT waste barrels off L.A. coast shock California scientists - Los Angeles Times
Horror that our minds can barely begin to encompass. Our Law, our institutions, all human justice seems so puny when it comes to imagining how the perpetrators of such crimes could ever be held adequately to account. It is simply not conceivable.
Nor will it do to tell ourselves that this and all the immeasurable disasters of so-called peace, following close behind the hellish disasters of war, are a matter for Divine Justice. That is only to compound irresponsibility with transcendant irresponsibility.
We can but take collective responsibility for the actions and inaction of mankind, committing ourselves to learn from errors both past, present and planned. Education, education, and more education.
That entails humility, a virtue now, more than ever, despised by the powerful. A virtue that flows from love, that unquenchable yearning for universal happiness -- likewise despised by today's much admired narco-narcissistic nihilists... Yet, even they may have some feelings for their children... and so may sometimes develop concern for the future to which they are exposing their own flesh and blood... And that could open the door a crack to awareness of responsibility.
Whether we or they like it or not, whether we sleep on or awake, the bills are already trickling in for what we have done and for what we have failed to do. And soon the trickle will be followed by tsunamis.
Many people have no idea what is coming or is already here. Just yesterday, my reliably R "Christian" ex h.s. classmate posted a long list of wing nut nonsense which of course, includes dreck about fossil fuel and of course, lots of misinformation and hatred directed at anyone who is different than they are. It was too long a list to answer each item, but I did answer the power bs by observing that we have a hybrid that, since we rarely drive out of the city, gets about 1000 mpg and the electricity for it comes from our solar panels on the roof. I also mentioned that the excess goes back into the grid to help others and noted that is probably the dreaded socialism. And yes, I do know that there are problems with renewables too. But when we had the dreadful fires in 2020, I did not see it as something God did.
I hope, I hope, I HOPE I am mistaken, but I see everything we have witnessed to date as a trickle by comparison with what's to come.
We have forgotten that we are part of Nature, we have come to treat the planet as an object to be mined and otherwise exploited and, in so doing, we have transformed ourselves into alien parasites.
I don't doubt that in all likelihood the consequences of fossil fuel use, ingrained human 'practice', capitalism as it has been practiced for the past 45+ years (others, may more detailed and precise) and additional factors will make life on earth and earth itself more endangered; what's more, I think that we have been paying for it.
How many sneaky companies and institutions have used the ocean as a dumping ground, thinking it didn’t matter?
The nation’s largest DDT manufacturer once dumped its waste into the deep ocean. As many as half a million barrels could still be underwater today, according to old records and a recent UC Santa Barbara study that provided the first photos of this pollution bubbling 3,000 feet under the sea. Possibly hundreds of thousands of barrels and DDT-laced sediment were dumped just 12 miles off the coast. How many companies have illegally dumped waste into the ocean and will they ever be held accountable?
DDT waste barrels off L.A. coast shock California scientists - Los Angeles Times
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2021-04-26/ddt-waste-barrels-off-la-coast-shock-california-scientists
The horror.
Horror that our minds can barely begin to encompass. Our Law, our institutions, all human justice seems so puny when it comes to imagining how the perpetrators of such crimes could ever be held adequately to account. It is simply not conceivable.
Nor will it do to tell ourselves that this and all the immeasurable disasters of so-called peace, following close behind the hellish disasters of war, are a matter for Divine Justice. That is only to compound irresponsibility with transcendant irresponsibility.
We can but take collective responsibility for the actions and inaction of mankind, committing ourselves to learn from errors both past, present and planned. Education, education, and more education.
That entails humility, a virtue now, more than ever, despised by the powerful. A virtue that flows from love, that unquenchable yearning for universal happiness -- likewise despised by today's much admired narco-narcissistic nihilists... Yet, even they may have some feelings for their children... and so may sometimes develop concern for the future to which they are exposing their own flesh and blood... And that could open the door a crack to awareness of responsibility.
Whether we or they like it or not, whether we sleep on or awake, the bills are already trickling in for what we have done and for what we have failed to do. And soon the trickle will be followed by tsunamis.
…more than a trickle, Peter, when it comes to the devastation -- the effects on land, water, life, costs; the sum of all, so far.
Many people have no idea what is coming or is already here. Just yesterday, my reliably R "Christian" ex h.s. classmate posted a long list of wing nut nonsense which of course, includes dreck about fossil fuel and of course, lots of misinformation and hatred directed at anyone who is different than they are. It was too long a list to answer each item, but I did answer the power bs by observing that we have a hybrid that, since we rarely drive out of the city, gets about 1000 mpg and the electricity for it comes from our solar panels on the roof. I also mentioned that the excess goes back into the grid to help others and noted that is probably the dreaded socialism. And yes, I do know that there are problems with renewables too. But when we had the dreadful fires in 2020, I did not see it as something God did.
I hope, I hope, I HOPE I am mistaken, but I see everything we have witnessed to date as a trickle by comparison with what's to come.
We have forgotten that we are part of Nature, we have come to treat the planet as an object to be mined and otherwise exploited and, in so doing, we have transformed ourselves into alien parasites.
This will be paid for. By posterity.
I don't doubt that in all likelihood the consequences of fossil fuel use, ingrained human 'practice', capitalism as it has been practiced for the past 45+ years (others, may more detailed and precise) and additional factors will make life on earth and earth itself more endangered; what's more, I think that we have been paying for it.
Good lord, ticking time bomb