'To see the world in a grain of sand,' is the opening line of a brilliant poem by William Blake. Let's try it. For a moment, let us pick one relatively obscure grain of sand - the practice of sending toxic and other garbage from around the world to India, as touched on in THIS ARTICLE article, in The Times of India.
There are laws of course, and the Basil Convention between nations: an ongoing series of negotiations regarding "Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal."
But weak regulations are reduced to nothing without enforcement.
Today, three large environmental groups decided to try legal means to get the conservative Canadian government to do better at the world's worst environmental monstrosity - the Canadian tar sands.
Saturation of human breast milk with toxins was first brought to the public's attention more than four decades ago in Silent Spring, when Rachel Carson wrote about DDT in mother's milk. We don't like to think about it, but...
First, Do No Violence! We need a Hippocratic Oath for All Religions. A promise of no violence for religious beliefs or purposes, including; bombings, shootings, pedophilia and other sex abuse, proprietary rights over females, intimidation and other violence to the soul. After all, if God needed violence done for His/Her purposes, He could surely take care of it Him/Herself.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Kigoma, Tanzania.
* tech glich happening - please click title (above) for full story.
There really is a giant climate hoax taking place. This girl has an idea about what to use to overcome the liars. See video...