Now that the illegal dumping of waste into our oceans has been voted against, what guidelines are being set up to enforce it and what alternative methods are being employed to dispose of such materials?
Well, um,er...we should all go back to a hunter gatherer agrarian lifestyle and live in harmony with nature! Yeah! Uh...woo!
Seriously...isn't this something that should have been discussed BEFORE we went for the effluent cork? Well, before YOU went for the effluent cork...I'm not a UN member yet and if poorly thought out wishful thinking masquerading as policy continues to be passed like this I won't be soon. I've already ranted about this within my own region, but I'm going to vent again.
Really...public donation funded cleanup crews expected to muster the resourses to be able to clean up the industrial waste from an entire nation? They'll be lucky to boast a decent colander each to fish the mercury poisoned seagulls out of the harbour, much less actually clean up the mercury itself. And "filtering" harmful pollutants? Yeah right...that would include cyanides, nitrates, metal salts and all the other soluble pollutants that are going to pass right through any mechanical filtration system. I know there are ways of dealing with soluble pollutants too, but removing them from the effluent stream doesn't make them magically go away. Unless you can think of a way to make them into a tasty new snack food that the human body can miraculously metabolise into harmless compounds you're still going to have to either dump them somewhere or find a way to reuse them. No ifs, buts or maybes, you actually still have to put the waste SOMEWHERE.
I'm all for the regulation of industrial pollution and even potentially a moratorium on some kinds of dumping (nuclear wastes, heavy metals, other biologically cumulative materials etc.) but if we're going to try to produce measures to deal with industrial waste, let's make them feasible, shall we? Like Stevie Mouse said in the parent post, what do we do with our waste now? Much as we might like to, we can't just wish it away. And don't think you can simply say that that's a problem for business to solve because it's not, and if you try to make it their problem, you can bet they'll solve it in a way you won't like. (gotta love the way those extra landfills leach crap into the water table) So, maybe I didn't see all the resolution, but I'm fairly sure I did and I don't think I saw any constructive alternatives being offered, just a directive of "STOP IT!" issued to industry. Try putting a cork in a puppy to keep your carpets clean and see how long that solution lasts.
This is not a troll, this is an attempt to provoke actiual thought.
*dons flameproof suit*