(4 out of 5)We here at RMN, try do our best at covering some of the more significant oil, waste and industrial spills that occur around the globe. Unfortunately, we can only cover a tiny fraction of the amount that actually happen. Let us show you what we mean. Type in “spill” to Google News:
http://news.google.com/news?um=1&ned=us&hl=en&q=spill
What you’ll see there is a depressing news wire feed of environmental sodomy from just the past couple days. Let’s have a look at a sample of it from April 27, 2009:
- Oil spill in Satluj
- Wastewater spill in Catawba creek
- Mercury Spill in Newark
- Hydraulic Fluid Spill In Farmington
- Witnesses Still Recovering From Anhydrous Spill
- Fuel Spills into Northside Sewer; Indianapolis
- Hydrochloric acid spill spawns vapour cloud in Ohio for 5 hours
- Manure spill moves fish stocking; Kewaunee River
All of these were non-negligible spills. They do not include news from hearings about spills, anniversaries of spills or spills that we’re successfully covered up or not considered newsworthy enough. If you search for terms like “leak” or “dumping” or “overflow” the list grows even larger.
So what’s the point of sharing this? Simply to bring attention to the sheer daily volume of man-made environmental assaults. So, what’s the solution? The usual: more funding for regulatory agencies, reduced consumption and more awareness of the issue. Taking the profit motive out of particularly environmentally devastating industries would also be good.
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