Nowadays we can see a lot of philanthropist and environmentalist came to help maintain the sustainability of the earth resource usage, climate change, carbon emission footprint, nature invasion, environmental clean power, nuclear warhead.
But it is irony that most of them came from the country that taken advantage from the mother earth year after year. Yes, we recognize and thank for the effort taken by them. BUT how many should the develop world or the poor third world nation stand back for damage done by them? Yes it’s bad for the nature if we utilize the our entire source we have now, we do understand. BUT isn’t it the same if their capitalist multinational giants come down to this country and grab it all for themselves? If they talk so much, what is their country commitment to the Kyoto Protocol? Below is few initiative in term of environmental convention and agreement, just to name a few:
1. International Convention Relating to Intervention on the High Seas in Cases of Oil Pollution Casualties Intervention Convention, Brussels, 1969.
2. Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, Vienna, 1985
3. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), New York, 1992
4. World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johansberg, 2002
The famous Kyoto Protocol which designated to stabilize the collective greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system in Kyoto, Japan (11 December 1997) wasn’t signed by the biggest carbon gas producer country on earth (which this philanthropist and environmentalist ) which without doubt the biggest contributor of all the green house gas.
WHY? Of course it will crapple down their economy, the machine that source million of Uncle Ben to this capitalists. It doesn’t need a scientist to understand that all of the source which our most honorable philanthropist and environmentalist use to HELP change the world come from this gigantic company.
Yes, from this millions of dollar they make from us, they are so generous to give away a small portion of it and have a say (they call it as an advise, a call for the nature) to the third world to stop destroying the world. Are we the one to be blame all alone?
Here is an example of a very important issue they rather take serious than the Kyoto Protocol. So important that evens the Obama administration came down to help look into it.
In 1970, United States catfish farmers introduced Asian Carp into their ponds as an effort to control algae growth - a species of fish found in China (THEY STARTED IT THEMSELVES). Flooding throughout the last several decades washed the fish out of those ponds into other waterways. Gradually, the species multiplied and spread north along major rivers such as the Mississippi and the Illinois.
Gradually, This Asian Carp edge out the other native species in the river until they are one of the only kinds of fish left. It is catastrophic to the natural ecosystem, and a problem for the fishing industry. With no natural predator in the water, and almost no domestic market to sell them as food, Asian Carp threaten to expand into waterways through the city of Chicago, and into Lake Michigan, about 320 kilometres northwest of Havana.
They call it out as an INVASION, funny that the term were used by the media when thousands of marine jump out into the Iraq to capture the lunatic dictators for the weapon of mass destruction (WMD) he develop – But I remember they found nothing, but who care, the dictator has been topple, the democracy has been restore, the Iraqis should be so grateful. Aren’t they??
Is it look the same?
Now the country society (Philanthropists, environmentalist, angler, capitalist and as i said even the present administration) is so worried that this invasion will be a catastrophic event – much bigger than the Kyoto Protocol itself I believe.
They were so worry that this fish move forward to the Great lakes and could utterly disrupt the existing ecosystem, potentially starving out the American sturgeons, trout and other native fish that make the Great Lakes a multimillion tourism spot. They even build an Electric Barrier Defence System and hold a redneck tournament to catch this fishes. If they don’t do this now, a shutdown of the lake is required to curb down this invasion. This will bring a greater impact not just to the American fishing and tourism industry but also to its 14.6 million tons of commodities annually move through the canal (American Waterways Operators). Iron and steel from northern Indiana, gravel and building materials for Chicago are among the commodities whose Great Lakes shipment would be halted or would have to be shipped by alternative, more costly methods.
A documentary channel also summarize that this event would cater the future extinction of their so loveable American Sturgeon, a type of fish that can be track back from the Jurassic era. They blame the extinction cause by the Asian carp.
But interestingly, the American sturgeon population has declined to a 50-year low. Why? Have you heard of caviar, the rich dish serve in those five star hotels? This Caviar lusts fulfill by processing Sturgeon eggs. This is the key factor leading to the sturgeon's world-wide decline. (THEY STARTED IT THEMSELVES AGAIN).
Blame the problem to other, what a de ja vu.
The only reason here is, the American looks at Asian Carp as an undesirable fish to eat. They find it smelly and it interlace floating bones make it a hard to eat. Strange, in Asian people would pay hundred to eat this fish. So how hard can it be? Just because they don’t want to eat it, it becomes a national issues? How come this small issue can beat the global warming in term of its priority? My answer, there is only one reason.
p/s: Looking from the other perspective, the world situation now, do you believe that this "Sturgeon" will do anything they can to curb the "Asian Carp" growing power? Let see how they do it.
