Sentences with phrase «oceans as waste dumps»
«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.
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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?