Enjoy coral reefs while you can!

[bruehlt]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060729.POLLUTION29/TPStory/Environment

It appears all of our CO2 emmissions are causing the ocean to acidify....just lovely!

 

[Louma]

Try this one:

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news...lash-day1,0,5493921.flash?coll=orl-home-promo

Green slime is taking over the reefs. Looe Key is green and going fast.

 

[bruehlt]

Try this one:

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news...lash-day1,0,5493921.flash?coll=orl-home-promo

Green slime is taking over the reefs. Looe Key is green and going fast.

WOW - the first few photos are amazing. I knew that cities discharge sewage into the ocean, but wow. I wouldn't want to be those divers!

How sad. I see our planet transforming faster than we can fix it. Its a shame, but I believe all of this will be gone in 50 years, if not sooner.

 

[Buoyant1]

90% of the big fish are gone! That's getting scary!

 

[d'Anconia]

So I don't get it. It can cause rashes and yet people are just picking it up with their bare hands?

 

[FIA-Sparki]

The picture of the sewage is pretty morbid to say the least.

Why don't they impose stricter sewage treatment processes? Or is it going to cost too much? If it is based on $$$, my only question is, "How do you put a price on the earths ecosystem?".

Too bad we can't have a world wide cleanup day.

 

[bruehlt]

You guys think that's bad - you should see what Miami is doing to Florida's aquifer.

They are injecting partially treated (basically raw) sewage into the aquifer through a process called "deep well injection."

http://florida.sierraclub.org/miami/cons_deepwell.htm

See the PDF file for pictures:

http://florida.sierraclub.org/miami/uic.pdf

Its amazing that the EPA continues to allow this. Utterly amazing...$$$ speaks, I guess.

 

[500 PSI]

Boil it or buy it!! This makes wonder sould I drink the water in Dade Co. It is just a fact that there are limits to natures abilty to digest contamination. I think it may a source of cancer causing stuff, EEEK!

I love south Fla and the people, hope a solution can be found.

 

[Fotoz4FX]

Mother Nature only put us on this planet because she couldn't make plastic... now she's got enough of it and has had enough of us too.

 

[deeper thoughts]

The Keys will have no septic tanks or cesspits by 2010, plenty of shovels are in the ground, we are paying out of the nose for it here but its worth it.