A Sea of Garbage

by: what_ryan_wants

In case you have not, Google the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It is a garbage pile in the Pacific Ocean that stretches off the coast of California, past Hawaii and almost as far as Japan. The size is estimated to be as "small" as the state of Texas up to twice the size of the United States.
It is also referred to as the Plastic Soup as plastic is becoming a large part of the garbage that is circulating the the vortex. The plastic is photo-degrading into polymers that closely resemble zoo plankton, and are eaten by jellyfish thus entering the food chain.
It's amazing we have not heard about this yet in the mainstream media.

Biofuel = Big Bucks

by: jaketheman

From claims that obese Westerners are devouring the world's produce to pleas that panicked developing nations stop hoarding it, recriminations were flying at a two-day UN conference focused on soaring international food prices this week - and The Guardian reports that anger ran highest over US policies aggressively promoting biofuels farming.
Small wonder: the International Monetary Fund has estimated that the trend toward farms producing fuel instead of food is responsible for 20-30% of recent price spikes, the International Food Policy Research Institute, a US think tank, came up with 30%, and the clean-energy research firm New Energy Research offered a more conservative 8%. But US agriculture secretary Ed Schafer would own up to only 3%.
And while the food riots resulting from price rises are easy to see, the environmental benefits of biofuels are not. Report after report this year has warned that flight from fossil fuels to biofuels could see forests cleared and cropland diverted while both food costs and greenhouse emissions rise.

The Biggest Cause of Global Warming

by: CFCFCF

The biggest contributor to Global warming is the one we have the most control over - yet nobody seems to want to mention it...

Human over population, at 6.5 BILLION we are well beyond the United Nations reccommended sustainable level of 5 Billion and the evidence of over population is every where... Urban sprawl.. deforestation, pollution, lower air quality and so on. Pretty much every problem our planet faces can be traced back to too many people. I grew up in Edmonton, my families home was at the time on the edge of the city.. now its no where near the edge.. No, my parents didnt move - simply the city grew around them and beyond them.. and for some reason people deny there is an over population issue at hand.

In truth, the birth rate is not only to blame - the fact is we are living longer. Fewer women die in child birth and our kids are no longer replacing us or our parents, heck in many cases they are not even replacing our grandparents.

We control the growth rate of pretty much every other species on the planet.. why not our own??? and when will we be forced to take action on our growth rate (like in China) or how soon will we be eating cat and dog (like in China) because of loss of farm land to raise cattle or food for cattle?

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