Archive for February 22nd, 2018

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22/02/2018

Junk Planet: Is Earth the Largest Garbage Dump in the Universe?

Human Wrongs Watch

By Robert J. Burrowes*

DAYLESFORD, Australia, 22 February, 2018 — Is Earth the largest garbage dump in the Universe? I don’t know. But it’s a safe bet that Earth would be a contender were such a competition to be held. Let me explain why.

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Birds scavenging for food amidst the debris at the landfill in Danbury, Connecticut in the United States. Credit: UN Photo/Evan Schneider

.To start, just listing the types of rubbish generated by humans or the locations into which each of these is dumped is a staggering task beyond the scope of one article.

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22/02/2018

The Polar Boom: Corporations Flock to Melting Arctic for Oil and Trade Routes  

Human Wrongs Watch

By Baher Kamal

22 February 2018 — Toward Freedom* — As the global demand for fossil fuels rises and the Arctic sea ice continues to melt, multinational corporations and governments are deepening efforts to expand oil exploration and trade routes in the region. While corporations see a profit, environmentalists see a crisis.

Merely a couple of years after a Greenpeace-led global campaign managed to prevent the oil company Shell from drilling in the Northern Pole, the world’s two nations most responsible for global warming – China and the US – have announced plans that will further accelerate the agony of the Arctic.

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