From http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/17318/garbage-blights-dive-sites
Garbage blights dive sites
By: APINYA WIPATAYOTIN
Marine officials found more than 22 tonnes of garbage dumped into the sea last year, most of it at famous dive spots. Koh Samaesarn in Chon Buri province was the site of the biggest undersea garbage dump, Department of Marine and Coastal Resources chief Samran Rakchart said yesterday.
The Samaesarn area of Sattahip district is where the mysterious containers that have been in the news lately are located. An investigation team is trying to find out what is inside the containers.
Half of the garbage found at Samaesan is plastic and beer bottles.
Koh Kra in Nakhon Si Thammarat province contains another large mound of garbage. Most of it is fishing equipment.
Mr Samran said his department had been collecting records of sunken garbage in the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand.
The trash causes the death of many marine animals every year, he said. Autopsies conducted on dead dolphins and sea turtles had found all manner of junk in their stomachs.
It is estimated that 6.4 million tonnes of garbage a year, or 1,800 tonnes a day, is being dumped into the sea globally. Almost 90% of the garbage is plastic waste.
Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts
02 May 2009
Overpopulation NOT Consumption
We're seeing more often And I have just heard from a mouth of an "environmentalist" a debate that Consumption is a bigger problem than Overpopulation. The logic goes, since consumption is a bigger driver of environmental degradation than population, we should ignore population and focus on consumption. Someone reasons that rich people consume a lot while poor people consume little. We have to push for reduction of consumption of the rich.
"...per-capita emissions of carbon dioxide will likely rise in poor countries for some time yet, even in optimistic scenarios. But that is an issue of consumption, not population."
Human consumption of natural resources and emission of CO2 requires humans. More humans equals more of what humans do.
Per-capita CO2 emissions will rise greatly in poor countries as they begin to afford the technologies we take for granted. No matter how efficient cars, appliances, machinery and so on become, increased production and use of them will increase CO2 emissions. It's cornucopian fantasy to think a population increasing by 50% can have a "First World" standard of living without causing serious ecological damage. It's fantasy to think it can be done in the first place.
Even if humans discover means to produce enough energy to support ourselves, even with ZERO damage to the environment, our use of energy will increase and we will cause damages, due simply to our increased numbers if nothing else.
Thank you for the answer to this debate from the VHEMTers (www.vhemt.org)
"...per-capita emissions of carbon dioxide will likely rise in poor countries for some time yet, even in optimistic scenarios. But that is an issue of consumption, not population."
Human consumption of natural resources and emission of CO2 requires humans. More humans equals more of what humans do.
Per-capita CO2 emissions will rise greatly in poor countries as they begin to afford the technologies we take for granted. No matter how efficient cars, appliances, machinery and so on become, increased production and use of them will increase CO2 emissions. It's cornucopian fantasy to think a population increasing by 50% can have a "First World" standard of living without causing serious ecological damage. It's fantasy to think it can be done in the first place.
Even if humans discover means to produce enough energy to support ourselves, even with ZERO damage to the environment, our use of energy will increase and we will cause damages, due simply to our increased numbers if nothing else.
Thank you for the answer to this debate from the VHEMTers (www.vhemt.org)
20 April 2009
Extraordinary 2-Sentence Conversation
Miss I, after watching "Baby Boomers" TV show advertisement on TV : "Baby Boomers are killing the planet."
Mr. D : "We have been killing the planet since we started our civilization, Miss I."
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What a nail in the head ^0^
Mr. D : "We have been killing the planet since we started our civilization, Miss I."
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What a nail in the head ^0^
13 April 2009
Likes and Don't Likes about Melbourne & Victoria
Likes
1. Clean and neat. Completely opposite to Bangkok in every aspect of cleanliness. For example, no merchant pouring dirty water from cooking on the streetsides. And that's the only example.
2. Not much pollution, fume, black smoke, horrible smell from cars, dust.
3. Big parks all over with big trees where humans and non-humans are so happy. But, no, they are not only happy in parks, they are happy almost everywhere, almost all over the state.
4. Vegan food - Yes, vegan food everywhere. Yes, and many vegan, organic and fair trade shops. Every town in the countrysides I went to, there are vegan, organic and natural product shops. Many restaurants have vegan menus. And.... vegan bakery - You don't know how good it is. There's this shop I found that ALL bakeries are Organic Vegan and has organic vegan soymilk coffee. What's so bad about spoiling myself once in a while?
5. No traffic jam (there may be some in peak periods, but Bangkok is terrible, TERRIBLE! - you can get stuck in traffic for an hour, hours, hourss....)
5. Sea Shepherd is here. I love what they do and their ethics.
6. Animal welfare here is so much respected.
7. There're many social causes that I like.
8. Whereever I go it's clean and beautiful. Whether in the CITY, suburbs and the countrysides. Pretty houses, thick trees line up everywhere, forests next to streets like Ferntree Gully National Park I went to. It's right next to the street and it was so so so beautiful forest. I was hiking up steep hills..so much pleasure, fun and exercise.
8. The train system is excellent comparing to the State Railway train system in Thailand - you know what I mean. There are even clean toilets in the train stations and on the trains.
Don't Likes
1. No train from the airport.
2. You have to wait for the trains according to the schedules, unlike the Sky Train and Subway systems in Bangkok - you wait only for no longer than 5 minutes for each train.
Getting a job and living here would be great, hey? Not so high cost of living here too, comparing to other western countries, and with the great quality of living and with most things I love there...it's undenialably the place to spend my life.
1. Clean and neat. Completely opposite to Bangkok in every aspect of cleanliness. For example, no merchant pouring dirty water from cooking on the streetsides. And that's the only example.
2. Not much pollution, fume, black smoke, horrible smell from cars, dust.
3. Big parks all over with big trees where humans and non-humans are so happy. But, no, they are not only happy in parks, they are happy almost everywhere, almost all over the state.
4. Vegan food - Yes, vegan food everywhere. Yes, and many vegan, organic and fair trade shops. Every town in the countrysides I went to, there are vegan, organic and natural product shops. Many restaurants have vegan menus. And.... vegan bakery - You don't know how good it is. There's this shop I found that ALL bakeries are Organic Vegan and has organic vegan soymilk coffee. What's so bad about spoiling myself once in a while?
5. No traffic jam (there may be some in peak periods, but Bangkok is terrible, TERRIBLE! - you can get stuck in traffic for an hour, hours, hourss....)
5. Sea Shepherd is here. I love what they do and their ethics.
6. Animal welfare here is so much respected.
7. There're many social causes that I like.
8. Whereever I go it's clean and beautiful. Whether in the CITY, suburbs and the countrysides. Pretty houses, thick trees line up everywhere, forests next to streets like Ferntree Gully National Park I went to. It's right next to the street and it was so so so beautiful forest. I was hiking up steep hills..so much pleasure, fun and exercise.
8. The train system is excellent comparing to the State Railway train system in Thailand - you know what I mean. There are even clean toilets in the train stations and on the trains.
Don't Likes
1. No train from the airport.
2. You have to wait for the trains according to the schedules, unlike the Sky Train and Subway systems in Bangkok - you wait only for no longer than 5 minutes for each train.
Getting a job and living here would be great, hey? Not so high cost of living here too, comparing to other western countries, and with the great quality of living and with most things I love there...it's undenialably the place to spend my life.
21 February 2009
3 Reasons to Stop Smoking
1. The environmental toll of tobacco farming is high.
Tobacco cultivation leads to deforestation and requires extremely poisonous pesticides.
2. It is a silent killer.
Tobacco makes you more prone to pneumonia, Tuberculosis - virtually any respiratory
infection. It makes you more likely to get cancer. Not just cancers you'd expect, like lung
and throat, but all kinds of cancer. It makes you more likely to get heart disease, the
primary killer of the developed world, and more susceptible to the often-deadly respiratory
infections of the developing world.
3. It tortures non-human beings.
Although health officials have known for decades that cigarette smoking leads to lung
cancer, emphysema, and other diseases, the tobacco industry, in a desperate bid to find
evidence to the contrary, still conducts painful experiments on dogs, cats, monkeys,
rabbits, chickens, rats, mice, and other non-humans animals.
At this very moment, pregnant monkeys's fetuses are exposed to nicotine, beagles' throats
are cut into holes and they are forced to breathe concentrated cigarette smoke for a year,
Dogs' penises are inserted with electrodes to measure the effect of cigarette smoke on
sexual performance, masks are trapped to the faces of rats and monkeys and permanently
restrain them to force them to breathe cigarette smoke constantly, dogs are forced to be
on mechanical ventilators and chronically exposed to cigarette smoke, rhesus monkeys are
restrained in chairs with head devices and exposing them to nicotine and caffeine to
determine how caffeine and nicotine affect breathing.
Tobacco cultivation leads to deforestation and requires extremely poisonous pesticides.
2. It is a silent killer.
Tobacco makes you more prone to pneumonia, Tuberculosis - virtually any respiratory
infection. It makes you more likely to get cancer. Not just cancers you'd expect, like lung
and throat, but all kinds of cancer. It makes you more likely to get heart disease, the
primary killer of the developed world, and more susceptible to the often-deadly respiratory
infections of the developing world.
3. It tortures non-human beings.
Although health officials have known for decades that cigarette smoking leads to lung
cancer, emphysema, and other diseases, the tobacco industry, in a desperate bid to find
evidence to the contrary, still conducts painful experiments on dogs, cats, monkeys,
rabbits, chickens, rats, mice, and other non-humans animals.
At this very moment, pregnant monkeys's fetuses are exposed to nicotine, beagles' throats
are cut into holes and they are forced to breathe concentrated cigarette smoke for a year,
Dogs' penises are inserted with electrodes to measure the effect of cigarette smoke on
sexual performance, masks are trapped to the faces of rats and monkeys and permanently
restrain them to force them to breathe cigarette smoke constantly, dogs are forced to be
on mechanical ventilators and chronically exposed to cigarette smoke, rhesus monkeys are
restrained in chairs with head devices and exposing them to nicotine and caffeine to
determine how caffeine and nicotine affect breathing.
11 October 2008
Nuclear and coal industries make scandals for profits
This message from wecansolveit.org applies to all countries, including Thailand. The Thai government is funded by nuclear and coal industries. --
The solution to our climate crisis seems simple.
Repower America with wind and solar.
End our dependence on foreign oil. A stronger economy.
So why are we still stuck with dirty and expensive energy?
Because big oil spends hundreds of millions of dollars to block clean energy.
Lobbyists, ads, even scandals.
All to increase their profits, while America suffers.
Breaking big oil's lock on our government ...
Now that's change.
We're the American people and we approve this message.
The solution to our climate crisis seems simple.
Repower America with wind and solar.
End our dependence on foreign oil. A stronger economy.
So why are we still stuck with dirty and expensive energy?
Because big oil spends hundreds of millions of dollars to block clean energy.
Lobbyists, ads, even scandals.
All to increase their profits, while America suffers.
Breaking big oil's lock on our government ...
Now that's change.
We're the American people and we approve this message.
The US consulting firm Burns and Roe Corporation has been chosen to conduct a feasibility study for a nuclear power plant in Thailand.
Thailand's first two nuclear plants have been scheduled to be built by the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) in 2020 and 2021, with a combined capacity of 4,000 megawatts.
Why should we be against nuclear energy?
Because despite what the nuclear industry tells us, building enough nuclear power stations to make a meaningful reduction in greenhouse gas emissions would cost trillions of dollars, create tens of thousands of tons of lethal high-level radioactive waste, contribute to further proliferation of nuclear weapons materials, and result in a Chernobyl-scale accident once every decade. Perhaps most significantly, it will squander the resources necessary to implement meaningful climate change solutions.
28 September 2008
The Methane Time Bomb
Melting ice-caps at the poles of the planet could end up releasing massive reservoirs of sub-oceanic methane into the atmosphere, amplifying the greenhouse effect and accelerating climate change to an even greater degree....
Read more at The methane time bomb by The Independent
Read more at The methane time bomb by The Independent
19 July 2008
PUMPKIN!!!!!!
Look at the picture of my pumpkin!!!!
Why do I have to be so proud of this pumpkin fruit?
Believe me or not: This pumpkin fruit grew from one of the pumpkin plants that have sprouted because I used food scraps as fertilizer!!!
Other pumpkin fruits were eaten by squirrels - I don't feel sad. Let the non-human animals eat :-)
There are many other edible plants that have sprouted in my garden because I compost.
Try composting and you will feel wonderful ;-)
Believe me or not: This pumpkin fruit grew from one of the pumpkin plants that have sprouted because I used food scraps as fertilizer!!!
Other pumpkin fruits were eaten by squirrels - I don't feel sad. Let the non-human animals eat :-)
There are many other edible plants that have sprouted in my garden because I compost.
Try composting and you will feel wonderful ;-)
14 June 2008
One of the Reasons We Should Compost
These are plants that have sprouted in my garden because I compost using food scraps and used the compost to fertilize the trees in my garden.
Papaya tree!
Bird Chili tree!
Pea Eggplant tree!
and.....
TADA!!
My pumpkin plant has bloomed flowers!! Pumpkin fruit will come soon! Yum.
Let's us all compost!
Composting creates new plants and reduces garbage that pollutes the environment.
Papaya tree!
Bird Chili tree!
Pea Eggplant tree!
and.....
TADA!!
My pumpkin plant has bloomed flowers!! Pumpkin fruit will come soon! Yum.
Let's us all compost!
Composting creates new plants and reduces garbage that pollutes the environment.
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