«To save coral reefs, we need to transform our energy system into one that does not use the atmosphere and
oceans as waste dumps for carbon dioxide pollution.
Not exact matches
Marine waters also receive
wastes directly from offshore activities, such
as ocean - based
dumping (e.g., from ships and offshore oil and gas operations).
Other environmental concerns relate to the radioactive contamination of the Arctic
Ocean from, for example, Russian radioactive
waste dump sites in the Kara Sea [42] and Cold War nuclear test sites such
as Novaya Zemlya.
When it came to stopping the
dumping of radioactive
waste in the world's
oceans (led by UK and not participated in by the US), it was Greenpeace and the Seamen's Unions (in response to their activism) that stopped the
dumping — I was then a scientist / legal activist advising NGOs such
as Greenpeace, AND when the governments eventually got the message that they had to clean up their act, I helped the UN create better protection of the marine environment.
The mind - set of those who
dump rubbish on road - sides is, I believe, similar to the mind - set of the corporations that
dump waste gasses such
as carbon dioxide into the atmosphere causing climate change and
ocean acidification — and of the governments that allow it to happen.
Would we like it today if the Romans had developed a modern technological society like ours, and their scientists told them that using the atmosphere
as a
waste dump for greenhouse gases would melt the ice caps, acidify the
oceans, overheat the tropics, cause species extinctions, etc, and then they decided to go ahead and do it anyway, just because they were selfish and didn't care about other people?