Gulf Pollution: It’s Not Just the Oil Spill
Complete video at: fora.tv Jeremy Jackson, Professor of Oceanography at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, explains that the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is one of many environmental degradations already occurring in the region. „The mouth of the Mississippi is the bowl of the toilet of North America,“ says Jackson. „All of this phosphorus and nitrogen, in incredible, mind-boggling qualities, comes down the river and gets dumped into the Gulf of Mexico. And it makes the dead zone.“ Photo credit: NASA Goddard Photo and Video —– In recent years, scientists have recorded dramatic drops in fisheries catches around the world. But what if the declines are even greater than we’ve realized? Dr. Jackson examines how we know what we think we know about the changing oceans with some of the top names in marine science and history in his new edited volume, Shifting Baselines. He will discuss how skewed visions of the past have led to disastrous marine practices and why historical perspective is critical to re-vitalize fisheries and ecosystems. – California Academy of Sciences Jeremy Jackson is Director of CMBC, the William E. and Mary B. Ritter Professor of Oceanography at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, and a Senior Scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in the Republic of Panama. He was Professor of Ecology at the Johns Hopkins University from 1971 to 1985. Dr. Jackson is the author of more than100 scientific …
PS-eat fish! It does a body good! ha ha ha
Thank God for pollution-we need all the help we can get to decrease the surplus population. DRILL BABY DRILL!
@watercup123456 And still you have nothing to add to the conversation but accusing me of trolling. Wonderful.
Here you are calling ME the imbecile.
@jreed136 Are you done trolling yet?
Fucking imbecile LoL
this guy must be stoned what an idiot
@watercup123456 I’m not angry in the least, actually, I look at your posts and feel kind of bad for you.
Keep on keepin’ on man.
And you call me the dummy. Derp.
@jreed136 Yeah, I do have all the answers.
Yes, they do all work.
Yes, I do know you from a short youtube exchange.
Yes, it is that easy. You are lazy and dumb. If someone is angry here, it is also you (probably from getting nailed), stop projecting ;-D
Oh, and stop trolling. Fucking dummy
@jreed136 You didn’t read anything I typed.
You just stole my ideas and regurgitated them as your own, whole entirely fucking them up.
Don’t steal my ideas and then fuck them up retard.
My solutions WORK, you just don’t want to listen. You WANT to be a slave, you like being beaten down and having an enemy to whine about, rather than do something about and be free. What a fucking toolbox.
@watercup123456 You’re also forgetting that all of our politicians get paid off, until lobbying is illegal(Which it already is, strangely. NO CORRUPTION – HERRRRRRRRRP DERRRRPPP) the people have no chance. Corporate personhood ALSO ruined our chances.
Your solutions are ill thought out at best and don’t focus on the grand scope of the problem.
@watercup123456 Of course, of course! You have all the answers. They’ll all work and they’re all applicable and you *know* me enough from a short exchange on Youtube to call me lazy and say I don’t want to change.
It’s not a SIMPLE fix as „change“ it. I am SORRY your worldview is so black and white.
Also, try getting less angry over the internet. It’s pretty sad.
The person likely trolling is you – just given your response here today.
@jreed136 WTF are you babbling about you fucking toolbox?
I JUST TOLD YOU how you can change it, but NOPE! You don’t fucking listen, you don’t want to listen, you don’t want it to change. You are lazy.
YOU do some research you fucking moron. OMFG you are SO fucking thick it’s pathetic. Yeah the system is corrupt, CHANGE IT fuckface! Holy fuck you are dumb. Stop electing corrupt lying fucks! DUH! Pulling out the „do some research“ line. What a fucking troll.
@watercup123456 But no, okay! The system isn’t corrupt at all. NOPE! We have a CHANCE.
Duh.
Go do some research on the subject before talking out your ass.
@watercup123456 No. It’s not that easy. Like I said, your view of how things work is naive at best.
The popular vote? Means shit. IT DOESN’T MEAN ANYTHING. There AREN’T that many candidates with enough exposure to get anywhere and most of the people are BRAINWASHED into thinking one thing over another.
It’s just not as simple as your rose colored glasses see it, buddy. They are in every facet of voting. They make sure people get in who they WANT to get in.
@jreed136 What did I just fucking say? STOP VOTING IN PEOPLE WHO PROMISE ONE THING AND DO ANOTHER YOU FUCKING RETARD!
Hello! Its like, you KNOW they are lying to you, why do you elect them? Elect someone else. There are plenty of legitimate candidates and legitimate parties. Green party? Rent is too damn high? Come on pick a new flavor and vote for it! YES it IS that easy dipshit, especially stop voting rethuglicon and mostly stop voting democrat! Make laws so they can’t lie and steal! DUH!
@dosequis311 Perhaps with all the pollution/mutagens in the environment and radiation floating around some species of frogs can evolve wings so that won’t happen anymore ;-D
@watercup123456 – Yeah, and if a frog had wings it wouldn’t bump its ass when it hopped.
@watercup123456 The popular vote does shit, you realize this, right? We vote in people who promise things and do another thing. They lie, they cheat, they steal. It’s not simply about who we elect anymore. It’s not simply about whose fault it is.
It’s not easy like you think it is. Not when the tick is rooted so deep in every facet of our lives.
Your view of how things really are is naive at best.
@dosequis311 YOU elect the representatives in your democracy. Direct or representative, it is YOU who decides, and frankly, putting people in direct control would probably be even worse.
If is your fault that it has fallen into money interests, you should make laws and regulations that ensure against that, and you can, it is easy to do. You stop electing corrupt fucks, and when someone lies and does the opposite of what they claimed, you hang them. Easy!
@watercup123456 – Where is this direct democracy where we are the government and we set the policies? Representative democracies soon fall victim to monied interests and fail to support much else than bourgeois ideals.
@watercup123456, you still haven’t explained why it is that Government is the better option to manage this transition.
Politicians are motivated by what gets them re-elected. Do you think all the unemployment & riots that will occur during a forced transition to renewables will get them re-elected?
Look what happened in Canada when they tried to force these green policies. The conservatives beat everyone else in the election as the public got fed up.
@LibertyDownUnder The way to do this is mainly through government intervention, they are the ONLY way it can get done, and that is fine, because YOU are government in a democracy, so you mandate what happens and how it happens. It could easily be mandated now, a transition away from fossil fuels, but politicians are bought off and more interested in making the quick bucks, and the populace is so fucking blinded and kept down that it makes change impossible.
@LibertyDownUnder WTF??? More and better drilling methods?
There are none. We are at technological wits ends. You spend BILLIONS in research to try and turn useless rocks chemically into usable oil, to no avail, because you think you can, and thats what you think your big plan will be, use all this shale once the crude is gone, and you are fucking high as giraffe pussy for thinking so. Or billions into offshore. Why instead if billions went to renewables, we wouldn’t need fossil fuels like oil!
@LibertyDownUnder It’s not just my wild speculation, it’s fact from scientists: /watch?v=Q-4Y4e-_X3s
The reason oil corps want global warming, and have bought off the media to lie to the public about global warming, which they are causing, is because they want all that oil in the arctic, and once all the ice melts, they can get at it. The ice is melting WAY faster than projected, ice will be gone in the arctic in literally 10 to 30 years, well in our lifetimes. Govs don’t care, they make money.
@MsHojat, rising population density fixes this issue. Congestion rises and more people turn to public transport.
The rich in New York take some forms of public transport, it’s not a ‘poor only’ option.
If Govenrments let go of their monopolies on public transport, this will help too. The average taxi licence costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, and it is illeagal in most cities to set up private bus routes.
@LibertyDownUnder anyone who can get paid 50% more (lets say 20% an hour instead of 13$ an hour) for driving an extra hour to work will take it. They generally don’t care dick all about the extra emissions or lower gas supply — they’re making MORE MONEY. Some people might use mass transit, but that generally is only poor people and/or those who live in very dense urban areas. Mass transit is something the government can work on. Using bicycles is something the government can work on.