Re: Didn't hear much about this...

On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:05:23 +0200, in uk.politics.misc, for Re: Didn't hear much
about this..., Earl Evleth <evleth@xxxxxxxxxx>, wrote

On 7/10/07 19:54, in article v67ig31alumln8saof02sfuf00kchkb77s@xxxxxxx,
"FACE" <AFaceInTheCrowd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I wasn't denying the problems of pollution, which are only too real,
particularly in the Mediterranean, I was just giving FACE a little
geography lesson as he definitely seemed to need one. I find it somewhat
shameful on the part of someone who no doubt gave his full support to
the US liberation of Kuwait that he can't even situate it on a map.


You are very foolishly jumping to conclusions that are unwarranted.

I think that you mentioning the Mediterranean with respect to Kuwait
got John going.

You are correct. A misplaced comma can get john going. :-)
My humorous post about the water snaking through 3 bodies of water, thence up the
Suez canal out into the Med should have been the end of it, but john has to drive
things into the dirt...........

My own point is that the pollution problems
are not often played up in the press because they are ongoing and
therefore not "news". I just returned from Greece and was surprised
at the articles I read there on local pollution, some coastal
areas exhibiting dead zones where the oxygen levels are too low
to support sea life. This occurs also in areas, "a vast area off the
Louisiana-Texas coast where oxygen-depleted water collects every summer and
suffocates sea life". I doubt that much is being done to reverse this
and not much is in the news.

There was also an article that someone posted a while back about a Texas-sized (or
near France-sized) body of water that was essentially dead and had plastic items of
all descriptions floating for miles. Also, how artificial plastic polymers will
exist in some form for millennia. Honestly, I don't remember where it was, but it
seems it may have been somewhere off of Africa. I haven't quite looked at plastic
the same way since, but that, like all news stories, will pass.

One of the first times I heard about dead zones in the sea was by Jacques Costeau
who said that reefs off France that had been beautiful and clean progenitors of life
in the fifties were essentially dead and filthy in the seventies-eighties.

I always find it amazing that the oceans apparently absorbed all of the sinkings of
petrol laden warships in WWII, but are succumbing to the inexorable usage by mankind
during "peace" on the high seas.

FACE

This summer one item
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19798001/ said that

"NEW ORLEANS - Researchers predict that the recurring oxygen-depleted ³dead
zone² off the Louisiana coast will grow this summer to 8,543 square miles ‹
its largest in at least 22 year"

Your point, I think, is the press generates catastrophic scenarios
which are not realized and that after all there turned out not
to be a serious problem after all. My point is that problems
do persist and some are serious. News generated hysterias are
short lived. Those which have powerful economic interests to
counter the hysteria are even shorter lived. On the other hand
the current terrorist hysteria has powerful political support,
witness the budget of the US Homeland Security.


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