TL - beat ya to it. 15 most toxic places on Earth

Speechless!

That's about the way I felt. Intellectually, I know we've about done ourselves in. I read the real pre-political edited science all the time. But to actually SEE this crap is just unbelievable. The fact that nobody moved to clean this up before it went this far is unfathomable.

The two rivers in #2 and #7 are, as you put it...flabbergasting.

#10 of the Haitian border is nothing short of gob-smacking...it is a clear-cut (no pun intended) illustration of terra-rape...How did they, or the Dominican Republic, ever let things get that far?

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MMM - about 3 years ago, 2 years? -- Before the earthquake, anyway, NASA formed a coalition of scientists to monitor highly impacted areas. Haiti rainforests were so decimated and their ecosystems so wiped out that it has been considered that the chain reaction started there may endanger the whole globe. Why is that area such a mess?

Because the people have continued to breed to numbers that the area just can't sustain -- that's the first problem. The second one is that the government is so corrupt that almost none of the money that country receives for aid goes to the actual population. -- Now, in that country, the most prevalent staple food is a grain that contains arsenic. It has to be boiled before it is edible. A few years back when the price of gas went so high, the population could not afford fuel for cooking and they went out and stripped almost all that was left of their forest.

I'm not sure what is going on there right now - but do know with the current price of oil that what is left of the trees are very likely to be wiped out very soon. They might be getting aid - but if the countries giving it aren't right there to dole it out as and where needed, that aid is just going back to keep the gov comfy.

2 years ago (2010) it was recognized that the global famine expected to hit was already in the onset. Back then there were one billion people on earth starving already. I've not been able to find current statistics anywhere and feel very strongly that the information is being suppressed because we are at the onset of the hugest global catastrophe ever even imagined. All the C202 sqwak was almost like they were diverting attention because things are so out of control that it's not known how many will survive before it can be turned around. Desertification, directly caused by over-population is the worst ecological nightmare to ever hit this planet. Years back, the UN actually had a convention to discuss how to get humans to quit over populating. In light of the world view about China's sensible policy limiting the amount of children, they decided that the same policy would cause too much revolution worldwide if any attempt were made to implement it globally. So basically - the answer seems to be to just let the dominant species die off (that's us) to a point that everything normalizes again. From what I have seen going on politically -- politicians are still willing to do absolutely nonsensical, and even destructive, crap to ensure their own comfort rather than face, and publicize, what really needs to be done to save at least half of the population, and even then it would take further reduction via negative population growth policies to actually reverse human damage and ensure the future survival of the species.

Anyhow - Haiti.........is just about finished. Period.

I would have thought the Dominican Republic would have had them declared "eco-terrorists" -
That island is akin to Siamese twins, one sick/one healthy, with one trying to kill themselves and one helpless, or doing nothing to prevent it from happening....

Yeah - I'm thinking that the DR won't be offering them refugee status when the die off begins and they start looking for somewhere to migrate to in order to survive.

That's what is going to (and has already started to) happen pretty soon is as one place becomes uninhabitable, the population will migrate and push other areas into over-carrying capacity populations. That kind of problem without a die off will start a chain reaction we'll never recover from - either human or animal species. I think it probably won't be more than 5 years or so until we see country after country closing their borders completely to avoid being towed under by massive amounts of immigrants.

Unfortunately negative population growth policies take time to take hold. China's population continued to increase for almost the entire 60 years of their program - but it's now starting to take hold. It's really too late for policies to help out any. We're going to have to suck up the damage and hope enough remains that we can continue as a species. It will take the entire remaining population understand that limits and eco-system sustainability have to be maintained. We didn't "get it" until too late - and our leaders still don't really much "get it" - they are still only concerned with their own careers and refuse to make choices that are sensible. They probably just figure it doesn't matter what happens to the planet after they are dead and care only that they are comfy while here. That's how they are acting, anyhow.

Flabbergasted is the word.




TL

Sickening is another word.

Absolutely sickening.

Chilling is another one.

Shocking headline. And, I agree something needs to be done.
However contrary to the article, there's loads and loads of places “unaffected by man-made pollution and development”. Just saying.

{Edit} OK.
The picture with the children laying in sewage was grim. : ( Surely the powers that be can't do something about all that?

disturbing...