How to deal with environmental pollution?

[anayta singhania]

All these climate talks and Developed Nation signing treaties. Why so? Think about it.

India exported 40K Tonne of Indigo Natural Dye made from shrub and European nation spent millions to get it. During 1900 German ( Bayer, Hoest), Britain(ICI) and Swiss ( Ciba) spent millions to find a chemical subsitute for Indigo and they succeeded in doing that.

Gradually, Natural Dye was wiped out. Livelihood of millions of farmers on it was also gone. Chemicals WON and Naturals Died ! Rich WON Poor Farmer lost.

Now the same nations are signing treaty to save EARTH and cut emission of pollutants. Indigo is one example and there are many other similar cases.

The Point is why not live NATURAL whenever it is possible and get to the root cause of all kinds of Pollution and solve it. 100 years ago most started their day with Natural - toothpowder, curd, bread, milk, food and now most start with chemicals.

If these Head of States really care about Earth then they should tax Chemicals more and make Naturals tax free. It is cheaper to buy Chemical and costlier to buy Natural then will poor buy Natural?

Forget Head of Nation, we people should take matter in our hand and try to live as natural as we can if we care about Earth. I do. Can't we try our best adding more Naturals to life.

 

[shah_1]

Nice post but you should write in a format so people don't have any difficulty in reading.

 

[anakin]

All these climate talks and Developed Nation signing treaties. Why so? Think about it.

India exported 40K Tonne of Indigo Natural Dye made from shrub and European nation spent millions to get it. During 1900 German ( Bayer, Hoest), Britain(ICI) and Swiss ( Ciba) spent millions to find a chemical subsitute for Indigo and they succeeded in doing that.

Gradually, Natural Dye was wiped out. Livelihood of millions of farmers on it was also gone. Chemicals WON and Naturals Died ! Rich WON Poor Farmer lost.

Now the same nations are signing treaty to save EARTH and cut emission of pollutants. Indigo is one example and there are many other similar cases.

The Point is why not live NATURAL whenever it is possible and get to the root cause of all kinds of Pollution and solve it. 100 years ago most started their day with Natural - toothpowder, curd, bread, milk, food and now most start with chemicals.

If these Head of States really care about Earth then they should tax Chemicals more and make Naturals tax free. It is cheaper to buy Chemical and costlier to buy Natural then will poor buy Natural?

Forget Head of Nation, we people should take matter in our hand and try to live as natural as we can if we care about Earth. I do. Can't we try our best adding more Naturals to life.

Because life expectancy 100 years ago was in 20s and now is 70.
Because Small pox and polio killed millions a 100 years ago... today we eliminated small pox and almost can eradicate polio.

Life just on naturals cannot be sustained... like if the entire world goes veg, more than half will die of starvation. Ohh by the way, because we had green revolution, we saved millions of more lives who used to simply die to regular famines.

Go green, but understand the limitations of implementing on larger scales.

 

[carrom_ball]

Nice post but you should write in a format so people don't have any difficulty in reading.

A very uninformative and impractical post, just when we are thinking of colonising other planets, this guy wants us to go back to living like a cave man

 

[Cpt. Rishwat]

The world's richest nations didn't get where they are by worrying about what the world will look like in 100 years time. Living a green lifestyle is an admirable aim in life but to expect to impose that belief on USA, Russia or China is naive. If an army of sandal wearing Jain Buddhists descended on their territory and demanded they think of the earth's future they would just blow them away with the latest hi-tech ordinance.

 

[carrom_ball]

Btw we are not saving the earth, we are saving humans by those climate talks, the earth won't get destroyed by global warming, it will become uninhabitable for humans and many other living creatures, but the earth isn't going to explode or anything, so I find it very funny when people say we have to save the earth

Infact if the humans went extinct the earth will recover many different extinct species very quickly.

 

[Last Monetarist]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/31/sri-lanka-faces-disaster-burning-ship-spills-chemicals-beaches

Sri Lanka is facing the worst environmental disaster in its history after a cargo ship carrying chemicals caught fire off its coast, spilling microplastics across the country’s pristine beaches and killing marine life.

The fire on MV X-Press Pearl, a Singapore-registered ship, broke out on 20 May and has been burning ever since. The Sri Lankan navy and Indian coastguard have been trying to reduce the flames for more than 10 days.

The 25-person crew was evacuated but the firefighting operation has been complicated by monsoon winds and the highly flammable and poisonous cargo. The ship was carrying 25 tonnes of nitric acid, sodium hydroxide and other dangerous chemicals as well as 28 containers of raw materials used to make plastic bags. It also had more than 300 tonnes of fuel in its tanks.

Though officials said the worst of the fire had been extinguished, explosions continued to be heard and thick smoke and small flames could be seen from the vessel over the weekend, which is anchored nine miles off the capital, Colombo.

It is feared the chemical spill has already caused untold damage to Sri Lanka’s coastline, including the popular tourist resorts of Negombo and Kalutara, with beaches thickly coated in microplastics and an oil slick visible in the surrounding ocean. The plastic pellets used to make plastic bags can be fatal to marine life and dead sea turtles, fish and birds have already begun washing up on beaches.

Local people have been told not to touch any of the debris as it could be highly toxic and fishing has been banned within a 50-mile radius of the scene.

“With the available information so far, this can be described as the worst disaster in my lifetime,” said Dharshani Lahandapura, the chair of the Marine Environment Protection Authority. The MEPA said the chemicals had leaked into the sea and contaminated the water, probably causing ecological damage to coral reefs, lagoons and mangroves that could take decades to repair.

Thousands of navy personnel in protective gear have been deployed on a cleanup operation to remove the thick layer of plastic pollution and chemical waste that has begun coating the shores, with bulldozers used to move the waste.

The government has promised an investigation into the disaster and a special police team has been assembled to question the captain and crew. Authorities believe the disaster was caused by a nitric acid leak.

 

[Last Monetarist]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/03/eye-of-fire-gas-leak-sparks-huge-blaze-on-ocean-surface-off-mexico

A fire on the ocean surface west of Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula has been extinguished, state oil company Pemex said, blaming a gas leak from an underwater pipeline for sparking the blaze captured in videos that went viral.

Bright orange flames jumping out of water resembling molten lava was dubbed an “eye of fire” on social media due to the blaze’s circular shape, as it raged a short distance from a Pemex oil platform early on Friday.

The fire took more than five hours to fully put out, according to Pemex. It began in an underwater pipeline that connects to a platform at Pemex’s flagship Ku Maloob Zaap oil development, the company’s most important, four sources told Reuters earlier.

Ku Maloob Zaap is located near from the southern rim of the Gulf of Mexico.

Pemex said no injuries were reported, and production from the project was not affected after the gas leak ignited about 5:15am local time. It was completely extinguished by 10:30am.

The company added it would investigate the cause of the fire.

Pemex, which has a long record of major industrial accidents at its facilities, added it also shut the valves of the 12-inch-diameter pipeline.

Angel Carrizales, head of Mexico’s oil safety regulator ASEA, wrote on Twitter that the incident “did not generate any spill.” He did not explain what was burning on the water’s surface.

Ku Maloob Zaap is Pemex’s biggest crude oil producer, accounting for more than 40% of its nearly 1.7m barrels of daily output.

“The turbomachinery of Ku Maloob Zaap’s active production facilities were affected by an electrical storm and heavy rains,” according to a Pemex incident report shared by one of Reuters’ sources.

Company workers used nitrogen to control the fire, the report added.

Details from the incident report were not mentioned in Pemex’s brief press statement and the company did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

 

[Last Monetarist]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/21/new-york-air-quality-plunges-smoke-west-coast-wildfires

New York City air quality was among the worst in the world as cities across the eastern US were shrouded in smoke from wildfires raging several thousand miles away on the country’s west coast.

State officials in New York advised vulnerable people, such as those with asthma and heart disease, to avoid strenuous outdoor activity as air pollution soared to eclipse Lima in Peru and Kolkata in India to be ranked as the worst in the world on Tuesday.

Smoke from more than 80 major wildfires burning in the US west has caused hazy skies and plunging air quality in eastern American and Canadian cities including Philadelphia, Washington DC, Pittsburgh and Toronto, as well as New York, causing fiery sunrises and even bathing the moon in an unusual red tinge on Tuesday night.

On Wednesday morning, the air quality index surged to 157 in Manhattan, well above the threshold of 100 where health is considered to be threatened. Vulnerable people include pregnant women and the elderly, although even healthy people outside these groups can experience breathing difficulty, throat irritation and runny eyes when exposed to air this bad.

“I think it’s unusual to have this kind of haze, I don’t recall seeing this kind of thing,” said George Pope, professor of earth and environmental studies at Montclair State University, who added that he could not see Manhattan from his New Jersey office. “You can pretty much always see the skyline, at least a silhouette, if it’s a hazy day. This is, like, this is unprecedented.”

Satellite imagery shows that the smoke from the western fires has billowed into Canada and unfurled to the east, plunging states such as Minnesota into unhealthy air conditions. Winds are able to easily carry tiny sooty particles emitted from burning trees and vegetation, known as PM2.5, large distances. These PM2.5 particles can, when inhaled, burrow into the lungs and cause a variety of health problems.

“We’re seeing lots of fires producing a tremendous amount of smoke,” said David Lawrence, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. “By the time that smoke gets to the eastern portion of the country where it’s usually thinned out, there’s just so much smoke in the atmosphere from all these fires that it’s still pretty thick.”

This is the second year in a row that smoke from huge wildfires in the US west has traveled 2,000 miles east, with the western states baked by ongoing drought and soaring temperatures fueled by human-caused climate change.

The smoke is set to shift away from New York in the coming days but further widespread wildfires are expected in the coming months, with people in the US west hit worst by the smoke as well as the direct threat of the flames.

David Turnbull, an activist at the US Climate Action Network who lives in Portland, Oregon, tweeted that people on the eastern seaboard should take care in the unhealthy air but also “take care of how you talk about the hazy skies. Your wonderment about it is our dread here in the west. Your curiosity is our constant fear. We live every day for months fearing the winds will shift, the fires will rage, and the smoke will come.”