Bush can designate his asshole as a national monument. Does that mean it will become any cleaner?
Remember his "Healthy Forests" program? what Dubya meant was that we will clean the forests of useful products, and a naked forest is a healthy forest. But instead of spending money to actually clean up dead wood, and prevent fires, we are instead spending more money on fighting fires, and NONE on cleaning up forests. Dubya is king of the "Anti-Midas Touch", everything he touches turns to shit.
You do not need to look any further at what Dubya knows about the environment. He spends all his free time clearing brush on his Crawford ranch. What the fucking ignoramus doesnt realize, having no clue what so ever as to what does the environment need is his clearing brush to the point where there is no habitat. Naked land, scraped down to the soil leaving only trees is not a healthy environment, unless your a fire ant.
The Bush environmental program is all sound bite, no real bite. He comes up with names that actually are the opposite of his real intent. This administration makes sue-and-settle deals. When the snowmobile manufactures sued the govt for restricting their use in Yellowstone, the administration settles with the manufacturers at very favorable terms with the plaintiffs, and this process goes around any congressional scrutiny.
No, I doubt ANY real action will become of the flotsam and jetsam out there.
So, the floating blob of badness is also a sponge that removes the DDT that had been free-floating/dissolved in the water? That's kind of perverse...
DDT attracts itself to fatty molecules, and what has the equivalent of fatty molecules that isnt alive? yep, plastic, particularly decaying plastics. You would think that mats made of that stuff could be used to treat water by containing the mat in a perforated cage, allowing water to flow in, and keep critters out. It would have to be an immense state sized structure to do significant help.
Anon, the water-treatment idea is an interesting one. A friend of mine was bottle-fed as a baby because researchers doing a study on the ag area where she was born found DDT in the breastmilk of a number of women there, including her mother. It would be great if there were a way to get those pollutants out of the food web.
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