Thread: TWIN CRISES: IMMIGRATION AND HAZARDOUS WASTE REMOVAL INFRAST

TWIN CRISES: IMMIGRATION AND HAZARDOUS WASTE REMOVAL INFRASTRUCTURE

By Frosty Wooldridge
April 2, 2009
NewsWithViews.com

As a first world nation, the United States creates unfathomable toxic and hazardous wastes from its many manufacturing, chemical and industrial processes. For decades, Dow Chemical dumped toxic wastes into the Great Lakes. Paper firms like Kimberly-Clark injected dioxins into rivers that killed and disfigured wildlife and marine life. Billions of animals suffered cancers unseen by the public. Mining companies dumped incredibly abrasive hazardous wastes into our environment.

For example, the U.S. Government dumped 48,000 barrels of radioactive waste 20 miles off San Francisco back in the 1940s. Since then, divers discovered that all those barrels corroded and leaked their contents in the Pacific Ocean. Today, consumers suffer warnings not to eat more than one serving of tuna or salmon per month because of tissue poisoning in those fish.

America stands neck deep in Super-Fund clean-up sites that continue poisoning our environment 50 years later. The Mississippi River works like a watery conveyor belt that delivers billions of chemicalized gallons of water into the Gulf of Mexico 24/7, year in and year out. Result: a 10,000 square mile dead zone grows at the mouth of the river in New Orleans whereby most marine vertebrates and other advanced species cannot exist in the poisonous waters.

Little known to most Americans, thousands of gas stations’ storage tanks leaked into ground water for decades. Millions of Americans dumped their oil into the ground or into water along with paints and a hundred other chemicals.

“The Twin Crises: Immigration and Hazardous Waste Removal Infrastructureâ€

I will email this to everyone I know. I had no idea we were required to accept Mexico's toxic waste at any point in time, and I don't think we should. If they don't strengthen their environmental laws and clamp down on the polluters, including their own oil company Pemex which is polluting the Gulf, they should live in the toxic garbage heap they have created. Had they any concerns for their citizens they would do their best to protect them. Instead, whatever ailments their people have, those folks will probably be shipped north to get cured at US taxpayer expense.

Because of the cold, inclement conditions US residents put up with energy consumption per capita is much higher here. And along with that are many more destructive by products. The tropics have a lot of advantages, in the long run, but it will take the appropriate technology to develop them. I agree adding more people here doesn't make sense.

As an example percapita energy consumption in the US or Canada is nearly three times what it is in a country like Italy.