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Worth a Look: Sick Fish in the Gulf of Mexico

03 Environmental Degradation, 07 Health, Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Earth Intelligence, Worth A Look
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Sick fish in Gulf are alarming scientists

Unusual number a ‘huge red flag' to scientists, fishermen

pnj.com, May 8, 2011

Red snapper with abnormal stripes caught by a local commercial fisherman. Scientists are seeing a growing number of Gulf fish with lesions and other health problems and are conducting tests to determine whether they are related to the BP oil spill. / Special to the News Journal

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Phi Beta Iota: If we spent just half of the current US secret intelligence budget of $80 billion a year on monitoring the Earth and creating a real-time grid for establishing the true cost of all products, services, and events (such as the Gulf oil disaster), we would be much more likely to create a prosperous world at peace.  The militarization of “security” may well be–along with the industrialization of agriculture–two of the greatest crimes against humanity in modern times.

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“Fighting” the Mississippi River

01 Agriculture, 03 Economy, 03 Environmental Degradation, 12 Water, Earth Intelligence, Government, Military
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A Levee Breached, and New Worries Downstream

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New York Times, May 3, 2011

Roy Presson, with his daughters Catherine, left, and Amanda, looking out at their flooded 2,400-acre farm on Tuesday in Wyatt, Mo

SIKESTON, MO. — With a rapid series of explosions late Monday that could be felt for miles through the Missouri soil, the Army Corps of Engineers successfully blew out some 11,000 feet of Mississippi River levee, taking dangerous pressure off the river above.

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For the people responsible for trying to manage the unmanageable river, each success is replaced by new worries.

“We’re just at the beginning of the beginning,” said Maj. Gen. Michael J. Walsh of the Army Corps of Engineers and president of the Mississippi River Commission.

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Phi Beta Iota: Severe weather is an act of man, not God.  Between paving over the wetlands and the many contributing factors to environmental degradation, the Earth's natural systems have been distorted to yield increasingly “unmanageable” conditions.

See Also:

Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Climate Change

Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Environmental Degradation (Other than Emissions)

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Reference: Future Water Wars A Summary

03 Environmental Degradation, 12 Water, Blog Wisdom

Future Water Wars: A Summary by Walter Sorochan (25 July 2010)

Summary: This article, with documentation, briefly summarizes the status of water in the world.  Water is essential for all living things and the world appears to be running out of safe drinking water.  Although water may be a human right, people in all parts of the world, today as in the past, fight over water. Today, corporations are usurping water from rivers, lakes and underground reservoirs to make money selling bottle water, to make soft drinks, and to irrigate crops as food for cash; all at the expense of depriving affordable drinking water to poor people.  Another dilemma: During this current economic crisis, state and local governments are debating whether to privatize public water distribution systems as a way to save money.  Water has become a biological, political and economic issue!

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See Also:

2006 Earth Intelligence Network Summary: Water

Reference: WATER–Soul of the Earth, Mirror of Our Collective Souls

Worth a Look: Open Water and Sanitation Wiki