CROWDFUNDING PARA SALVAR EL LOBO IBERICO (CROWDFUNDING TO SAVE THE IBERIAN WOLF - CAMPANHA DE CROWDFUNDING PARA SALVAR O LOBO-IBERICO)

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Última Campaña para comprar los terrenos del

Centro de Recuperación del Lobo Ibérico

en Portugal

Last Push to Save the IberianWolf Recovery Centre

Campaña: 
(Campaign/Campanha):

Aquí  (Here, Aqui)

Grupo Lobo - Portugal:

Here, Aqui

HUMAN GEOTRASHING: 2750 CONTAMINATED SITES IN THE ARCTIC

Arctic: 2750 contaminated sites. Source: Bois (2009).

By Gundhramns Hammer
June 7, 2015

No place on Earth escapes the impact of human activities. Not even the frozen poles.

We humans have become geotrashing agents.

As geotrashing agents, bluntly speaking, we have fucked up Earth. We have turned this planet into a waste dump.

Let us take the Arctic, for example.

Bois (2009) has reported a total of 2750 contaminated sites (Table 1) where humans have dumped different types of pollutants (Table 2) in the Arctic alone.

Table 1. Number of contaminated sites in the Arctic. Data from Bois (2009).

Country	Number of contaminated sites
Alaska (USA)	509
Canada	662
Finland	169
Greenland	468
Norway (including Svalbard)	524
Sweden	418
Russia	n/a
Total number of contaminated sites in the Arctic	2750

Table 2. Inventory of pollutants in the Arctic. Data from Bois (2009).

Type of pollutant	Number/country
	Alaska	Canada	Finland	Greenland	Norway	Sweden	Russia
Hydrocarbons	455	158	31	73	218	153	n/a
Heavy metals	108	65	18	133	363	137	n/a
POPs-PCBs	96	54	1	0	129	25	n/a
Other hazardous substances	12	25	125	22	152	78	n/a
Needs further study	4	455	2	297	159	109	n/a

POPs = Persistant organic pollutants; PCBs = Polychlorinated biphenyls; n/a = not available.

Obviously, Bois (2009) has done an excellent job investigating and recording the contaminated sites in the Arctic. It is a must to read.

Unfortunately this is not the end of man´s geotrashing line.

Things in the Arctic are bound to become even worse. 

Man´s geostrategic games are already changing in the North with the melting icecaps due to man-made global warming.

Thus, there is a rush for the Arctic.

Faced with an ever increasing mass of consumers always demanding new products in the global markets, oil and mineral companies will do their best to get the new resources to satisfy unsatisfiable customers.

For the time being and at a time when we are running out of time, it seems that our goal still is nothing but to make this beautiful planet a barren land.

How fucking stupid can Homo sapiens be?

Only time wil tell.


References

Bois R. des (2009). 2750 contaminated sites in Arctic. Polar Star Nº 2.


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