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Posts Tagged ‘industrial’
Pollution, Science & Technology, Sep 27th, 2011,
Can a world with a growing, increasingly industrialized population be fed by organic farming? As the world population approaches 7 billion, there are rising uncertainties about the Earth’s capacity to sustain this unprecedented amount of humanity. Conventional approaches on international and national governmental levels have been along the lines of the Green Revolution, which increased food production in some developing countries like Mexico, India and the Philippines, with the use of pesticides, chemical fertilizers and other technological advances in agriculture. Criticisms of the Green Revolution include concerns about pollution caused by pesticides and industrial fertilizers, as well as a belief…
Tags: agriculture, Germany, Green Revolution, industrial, industrialized, Löwenstein, organic farming
Health, Politics, Jun 17th, 2011,
No matter if you eat a 5 pounds of meat per day or are a strict vegan, intensive livestock farming is putting your life at risk. This is due to the routine and preemptive use of large amounts of antibiotics on factory farms, which contributes to the evolution resistant strains of bacteria like MSRA. In the US, MSRA is believed to be killing more people than AIDS. For years the medical profession has come under criticism for overprescribing antibiotics or doling them out unnecessarily. ERs are notoriously overburdened by patients demanding antibiotics for the treatment of illnesses that may not…
Tags: antibiotics, bacteria, dairy, factory farms, industrial, meat, MSRA, pig, resistant, superbug, vegan
Pollution, Videos & Documentaries, Aug 3rd, 2010,
The area around the Strait of Gibraltar, particularly at the Spanish port of Algeciras on the Bay of Gibraltar, is highly industrialized and home to many polluting factories. The Strait itself is a busy thoroughfare as well as a fueling location for ships and oil and fuel tankers. This puts the Strait at a high risk for collisions and resulting spills. In fact there have been seven ‘mini spills’ during the last three years. Spanish authorities have denied allegations from environmentalists about toxic condition and local industries deny any wrongdoing or illegal activity. However, ecologists from Gibraltar commissioned an American…
Tags: environmentalists, fuel, Gibraltar, industrial, Pollution, port, Spanish, spills, Strait
Climate Change, Pollution, Jul 7th, 2010,
When I was a little kid in the 1970s, my brother had a poster on his wall depicting an artist’s renderings of three possible future environments with the headline, ‘Which future would you choose?’ One showed a future in which man had chosen to live in harmony with nature and developed eco-friendly technology. A thriving green landscape dotted with white globes and pods while happy future-people tended vegetable gardens in the fresh air and had scintillating conversations about what great choices their predecessors had made. Ahhh… The second was a highly urbanized future featuring a glowing red sunset that backlit…
Tags: China, ecocide, future, humanity, industrial, industry, Linfen, primitive, wasteland
Climate Change, Politics, May 13th, 2010,
If you work for a factory, power plant, or refinery, you might want to start expecting some changes soon. The EPA has set plans in motion that will control smokestack emissions blamed for Global Warming. Their proposal requires the reduction of 6 greenhouse gases by installing top-of-the-line technology and improving energy efficiency whenever a facility is changed or built. If the proposal passes, it will apply only to industrial plants that emit at least 75,000 tons of greenhouse gases per year. It’s understandable that the EPA would target industrial smokestacks, however. According to the EPA, 70% of greenhouse gas emissions…
Tags: Climate change, EPA, factory, global warming, greenhouse gas emissions, industrial, power plants, refineries, Senate, smokestacks
Climate Change, Politics, Videos & Documentaries, Apr 26th, 2010,
In Thailand’s status as a leading ‘Asian tiger’ economy is marred by the dangerous pollution at the industrial port of Map Ta Phut. It is the center of Thailand’s petrochemical and power industry, but the environmental and health concerns of local residents have cast a shadow over the economic benefits Map Ta Phut’s industrial plants have brought. It is one of the world’s largest petrochemical hubs and has been driving Thailand’s industrial growth for decades. But critics accuse the refineries at Map Ta Phut of contaminating the area’s air and water, resulting in at least 2,000 cancer-related deaths among local…
Tags: Al Jazeera, industrial, Map Ta Phut, petrochemical, Pollution, Thailand
Climate Change, Videos & Documentaries, Sep 2nd, 2009,
TOXIC: Linfen, China – VBS travels to the single most polluted place on earth, the coal-mining town of Linfen in Shanxi Province, China, where kids play in dirty rivers and the sun sets early behind a thick curtain of smog. – vbs.tv Linfen, China’s coal capital was named the most polluted city in the world by the Blacksmith Institute, an organization that focuses on identifying heavily polluted areas and providing help to the people who live in them. A city of over 4 million, Linfen is literally choked by smoke from coal fires and steel mills, many which operate illegally…
Tags: China, coal, environment, industrial, Linfen, Pollution
