Catocala species
Ice Age National Scientific Reserve Unit, Wisconsin, USA
2019-08-08 _F2A6647aaa
“In case you didn't know and don't belong to the group of vipers who profit from other people's children dying.”
“A normal human being in war is terrified and seemingly broken by it, just like this boy. Look at his hands clenching in the panic and his bladder releasing in the terror of war. You see, war is not natural; it is not “normal” for human beings to slaughter each other at the bidding of psychopathic leaders that send boys to other countries to kill and die, by lies and for their own profit.”
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“you need power, only when you want to do something harmful, otherwise love is enough to get everything done.” Charlie Chaplin
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“Col. MacGreagor's insights...”
“Douglas Macgregor: NATO Only Back Off When Ukraine Is Completely Destroyed”
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Mass Extinction s gaining momentum:
“One million fish killed at Menindee Weir pool near Broken Hill
Hundreds of thousands of dead fish have been found floating in a river with calls for authorities to investigate the cause.”
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American government could care less. The non rich will be the ones to suffer and they shouldn’t be in the fatherland’s gene pool anyway. Instead of investing in providing fresh potable water from desalination, condensation, etc. Democrats & Republicans are spending the countries time and resources laundering money thru a war in Ukraine. Ostensibly, the solution to an American water crisis is to go to war – not investing in a long term solution.
“The world is facing an imminent water crisis, with demand expected to outstrip the supply of fresh water by 40% by the end of this decade, experts have said on the eve of a crucial UN water summit.
Governments must urgently stop subsidising the extraction and overuse of water through misdirected agricultural subsidies, and industries from mining to manufacturing must be made to overhaul their wasteful practices, according to a landmark report on the economics of water.
Nations must start to manage water as a “global commons”, because most countries are highly dependent on their neighbours for water supplies, and overuse, pollution and the climate crisis threaten water supplies globally, the report’s authors say.
Johan Rockstrom, the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and a lead author of the report, told the Guardian the world’s current neglect of water resources was leading to disaster. “The scientific evidence is that we have a water crisis. We are misusing water, polluting water, and changing the whole global hydrological cycle, through what we are doing to the climate. It’s a triple crisis.”
The Guardian
“The scientific evidence is that we have a water crisis. We are misusing water, polluting water, and changing the whole global hydrological cycle, through what we are doing to the climate. It’s a triple crisis.” Johan Rockstrom
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DDT in the Water off Los Angeles, CA:
“"First it was the eerie images of barrels leaking on the seafloor not far from Catalina Island. Then the shocking realization that the nation’s largest manufacturer of DDT had once used the ocean as a huge dumping ground — and that as many as half a million barrels of its acid waste had been poured straight into the water.
Now, scientists have discovered that much of the DDT — which had been dumped largely in the 1940s and ‘50s — never broke down. The chemical remains in its most potent form in startlingly high concentrations, spread across a wide swath of seafloor larger than the city of San Francisco.
“We still see original DDT on the seafloor from 50, 60, 70 years ago, which tells us that it’s not breaking down the way that [we] once thought it should,” said UC Santa Barbara scientist David Valentine, who shared these preliminary findings Thursday during a research update with more than 90 people working on the issue. “And what we’re seeing now is that there is DDT that has ended up all over the place, not just within this tight little circle on a map that we referred to as Dumpsite Two.”
These revelations confirm some of the science community’s deepest concerns — and further complicate efforts to understand DDT’s toxic and insidious legacy in California. Public calls for action have intensified since The Times reported in 2020 that dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, banned in 1972, is still haunting the marine environment today. Significant amounts of DDT-related compounds continue to accumulate in California condors and local dolphin populations, and a recent study linked the presence of this once-popular pesticide to an aggressive cancer in sea lions.
With a $5.6-million research boost from Congress, at the urging of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), numerous federal, state and local agencies have since joined with scientists and environmental nonprofits to figure out the extent of the contamination lurking 3,000 feet underwater. (Another $5.2 million, overseen by California and USC Sea Grant, will be distributed this summer to kick off another 18 months of research.)
The findings so far have been one stunning development after another. A preliminary sonar-mapping effort led by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography identified at least 70,000 debris-like objects on the seafloor.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, after combing through thousands of pages of old records, discovered that other toxic chemicals — as well as millions of tons of oil drilling waste — had also been dumped decades ago by other companies in more than a dozen areas off the Southern California coast.
“When the DDT was disposed, it is highly likely that other materials — either from the tanks on the barges, or barrels being pushed over the side of the barges — would have been disposed at the same time,” said John Lyons, acting deputy director of the EPA’s Region 9 Superfund Division. He noted that the new science being shared this week is critical to answering one of the agency’s most burning questions: “Is the contamination moving? And is it moving in a way that threatens the marine environment or human health?”
In recent months, Valentine, whose research team had first brought this decades-old issue back into the public consciousness, has been mapping and collecting samples of the seafloor between the Los Angeles coast and Catalina." Snip”
“History of DDT ocean dumping off L.A. coast even worse than expected, EPA finds”
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