Category Archives: Environment

Death by Plastic Bags & Bottles

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According to a recent article in National Geographic News, 44 percent of all seabirds eat plastic, apparently by mistake, sometimes with fatal effects. And 267 marine species are affected by plastic garbage—animals are known to swallow plastic bags, which resemble jellyfish in mid-ocean, for example—according to a 2008 study in the journal Environmental Research by oceanographer and chemist Charles Moore, of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation. Continue reading Death by Plastic Bags & Bottles→

When Our Oceans Are Barren; Japanese Atrocities of Whales, Dolphins & Sharks

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No, we have a few nations, Japan in particular, that behave with utter disregard to savage, mind numbing killing of sharks just for their fins. Harvesting sharks as a food source is one thing … killing hundreds of thousands of sharks just for their fins and tossing the rest of the carcasses away is criminal waste.

The Japanese apparently feel that all of the oceans fish, sharks, dolphins, and whales are there to feed their voracious appetites for sea food and the rest of the world be dammed. It’s part of their culture, don’t ya know! Continue reading When Our Oceans Are Barren; Japanese Atrocities of Whales, Dolphins & Sharks→

LAUGHING OUT LOUD AT PETA

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One of the posts I continue to get traffic on every day (here) is about PETA and why so people dislike the organization. I understand the emotional component of wanting to spare unnecessary pain to animals I don’t understand mean and childish pranks that generate media attention and little else.

These two videos are a case in point! Let’s just call this, now you see the monkey Peta got upset about and now you don’t! Continue reading LAUGHING OUT LOUD AT PETA→

CALIFORNIA BANS THE PLASTIC BAG

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It’s time for the US to get serious about banning or (at the very least) addressing the environmental damage caused by the ubiquitous single use plastic.

It is ironic that for a country that has led the world in so many environmental issues that we have such a shameful record of ignoring this hazard … all in the name of convenience, of course!

How’s this for a statistic?Plastic constitutes a whopping 90 percent of all trash floating in the oceans, and that represents as much as 80 percent of all plastic waste on earth! Continue reading CALIFORNIA BANS THE PLASTIC BAG→

Obama Worst President for the Environment Ever

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Lost in the din of the BP Deepwater Disaster oil spill was the announcement that the United States and the Obama Administration have been major players in back room negotiations that will allow Japan, Norway, and Iceland to restart commercial whaling. Continue reading Obama Worst President for the Environment Ever→

Toxic Shocker … Extremely High Toxin Levels found in Whales on Global Level

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The AP is reporting exceedingly high levels of deadly heavy metals and toxins in the bloodstreams of whales. Roger Payne, the American scientist who headed the research with the Ocean Alliance, has been studying whales for decades. Continue reading Toxic Shocker … Extremely High Toxin Levels found in Whales on Global Level→

Oil Glut on World Markets … Obama Lies About Oil Resources Being Depleted!

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Last night on day 57 of the BP oil disaster, we heard Obama give the speech he should have given 50 days ago.  All through the first half of the speech I kept thinking, “ya, ya I’ve heard that already… Continue reading Oil Glut on World Markets … Obama Lies About Oil Resources Being Depleted!→