I posted on Facebook:
Please read from the articles below (especially the 2nd one in TIME's list, about Bhopal, India!!!). Why should we care about things that happened over 30 years ago? How was the Gulf Oil Spill in 2011 handled?
(Please comment. thank-you).
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-link to Love Canal article
-link to Time Magazine’s Top Ten Environmental Disasters
-link to article on the Gulf Oil Spill
Kindia du Plessis How can people still deny our lasting effect on the world around us
Adam Lewis These definitely highlight the importance of process safety.
Ben Amann Chernobyl is the worst nuclear disaster of all time, and they are making tremendous strides in the bioremediation of the blast site using hemp plants. Hopefully it will be used soon on U.S. Superfund sites.
Amy Sprouse that is extremely fascinating Ben, thanks for the comment. only downside is I think they'd have to increase security around those sites after instituting remediation via hemp plants. there'd be some snatchin'!
Amy Sprouse granted tokers would have to be cool with inhaling even more chemicals that fry their brains.
Ben Amann Actually, its a carbon 0 process. Once fully grown they take the hemp plants and burn them as biofuel.. And its scientificaly proven that you cant use hemp as a drug
Amy Sprouse That sounds incredibly bioeffiicient. and yea... the THC level is too low to be considered a drug right? still in the same family where did you learn about this Be
Amy Sprouse (about Chernobyl bio remediation)
Ben Amann I dont know about chernobyl specifically, but you can find tons of literature on hemp being used as in phytoremediation
Kelli: I believe that nature is very, very powerful at healing itself. And nature knows how to take care of itself. Humans are causing some of the problems. We may not be able to restore it to its perfect state, but our efforts are increasingly helpful.
If the world is coming to an end in Global Warming, it’s not because of us… it’s the natural cycle of Earth. We may be contributing to it but we are not the cause.
Kevin: The whole Gulf Oil Spill propaganda stunt really bothers me. People don’t give nature enough credit for cleaning itself up. When President Obama flew down there for a photoshoot and to say “We’ll fix this problem”, the Ocean had already cleaned itself up and there was no oil to be seen in the water. It washed it away. The Ocean knows what to do with oil.
Shu (of China!): (on the topic of the amount of pollution China contributes to the world): I think all countries do this when they are developing so rapidly. And then when they have developed, and have enough money, they can make repairs. It is like a cycle. America did the same thing when it was developing so quickly 50 (or 100) years ago.
Jenna: All of our effects on the environment because of the chemicals we are using stretch so deep. Not just figuratively, but literally—the soil down to the bedrock are being contaminated with these chemicals. It is bad…and people are kept from knowing about it.
My Response:
Were you aware that environmental tragedies of this magnitude still exist today?
I was definitely aware because the world has not stopped industrializing. Environmental disasters will not cease until mankind ceases development. It is an unfortunate but unavoidable byproduct of the industrial world we live in. Accidents happen, and thankfully we have been making tremendous strides in increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of mitigation efforts.
Do you believe that environmental crises affect you/your family today?
When there are problems that disrupt oil, they cause us to pay more for gasoline. But I think you really have to be in the area of the disaster for it to cause significant harm to family life.
In your opinion are environmental hazards something we should be concerned about on a daily basis?
No, we shouldn’t stress ourselves out over it daily (especially because they’re mostly unpredictable accidents), but we should definitely stand up against things we can have influence on such as industrial waste and the chemicals the farmers use. Those are environmental disasters that start from tiny seeds and grow into towering crises.
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