Love Canal Report- Samuel Lo

I posted an article about the HP’s oil spill back in 2010 along with the Love Canal Article. I asked the question “Were you aware that environmental tragedies of this magnitude still exist today?” on Facebook and here are the responses that I received:

1.      I was in my 20's at the time of this incident concerning the love canal and I am very surprised that I never heard about it. I am bothered that such disregard for human life and our environment is still a common practice today. I fear that many companies are killing our Mother Earth in order to make a profit by neglecting their responsibilities. While we are the ones who suffer for it. Thanks for bringing this to my attention Sam. Good luck on your project.

2.      Wow sam! This is revealing! You have taught me a lot!

3.      hey I was just reading about this in my env. health class!

4.      That's crazy and unfortunate & no...was not aware.

5.      Yes, these dump sites are significant. With all the cutbacks it is hard to know where money would every come from to clean them up. The responsible parties may be gone or not able or willing to pay for cleanup. We have the ammunitions dump about 10 miles from our home. Vikings were going to buy the property for a new stadium and clean it up but that got thrown out the window. It is a big problem that will require lots of money and innovation to take care of it. The health problems will likely never be fixed. It is a troubling situation to say the least.

6.      Wow, we really do have to be careful about those buried chemicals. Who needs chemical warfare when we are waging it on ourselves?

7.       You are asking if I am aware...etc? Yes, I am. After all, I'm an environmentalist nut.

8.      YES!

9.      Dooood! I need to sleep and now I'm reading articles and watching videos of toxic waste sites!
ps Hey kids, this is the price of consumption. We've mostly shifted it to other countries so it now kills other people.

10.  Yes I was.

11.  Yes I am aware but I didn't realize it was so close. I know there are a lot of tragedies that happen all over the world.

12.  I wasn't aware of anything of this magnitude. To think that people are still living there even after the second time covering it up is crazy. I wouldn't even go near there. This definitely poses the question of how important it is to know what has been and is still laying around the areas that we all walk and breathe on every day. SCARY STUFF!

13.  Maybe a discussion thread here isn't helping with the assignment, but the number of toxic waste sites just in the Twin Cities is spooky. I can think of a handful right now: asbestos in NE Mpls soil, arsenic in the Phillips neighborhood, coal tar residue on the west bank of the UofM (causing problems for their very expensive underground archive), mercury (if I remember correctly) leaking from a building near the railroad in NE, etc.

Were you aware that environmental tragedies of this magnitude still exist today?

·         I was aware that there were some environmental tragedies happening throughout the world, but I didn’t’ associate it them with this kind of magnitude of destruction and influence. 

How do environmental tragedies affect you on a daily basis? Why should we care about them?

·         Environmental tragedies affect us not economically, such as gas prices skyrocketing, but they are environmentally destructive. The negative results in the environment affect natural habitats for animals, water sources, and are hazardous to our development of a healthy lifestyle.

Why should we care about something that happened over 30 years ago?

·         Many lessons can be learned from history and often these lessons help prevent future problems. We should care about these tragedies that happened 30 years ago so that we can make wiser in our decision when it comes to handling these types of situations.