Chemical Barrels: Underwater threat may devastate Black Sea

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Published on Sep 1, 2012 by RussiaToday

The future of the Crimea's holiday friendly beaches is at stake due to a danger at the bottom of the Black Sea. RT's Alexey Yaroshevsky looks at what lies beneath .

[Bennyboy]

1. That's NOTHING. Look at the map here of the US oceans

http://cns.miis.edu/multimedia/interactive_files/cw_dumping.htm

[darkangel218]

2. I'm not surprised. the corruption in former Soviet block is sickening. nt

[DeSwiss]

3. We (humanity) have always adhered......

...to the philosophy: ''out of sight out of mind.''

- K&R

[freshwest]

5. I'd read about this... Destroyed their fishing grounds... And then people act why they are angry...

The key to a habitable planet is to end toxic waste by not producing it in the first place. Point of origin control is a function of public awareness and tough regulation. A recent example:

The EPA is considering historic new standards for air pollution, but billionaires like the Koch brothers are spending big money on D.C. lobbyists to block these reforms.

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President Obama & the EPA need you to voice your support for new standards. Enacting these standards would help level the playing field for clean energy, and hold industrial polluters accountable. Show big polluters that their multi-million dollar lobbying campaign can't buy them the right to pollute our air.

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You can sign on to the statement below, or leave your own comment, by filling out the following form. The Sierra Club will deliver your message to the EPA.

http://sierra.stopbigpolluters.org/pgb/CKGGEBINLLP1BP

And we need to push towards using a lot less of everything. It's not easy in the face of a political environment that thinks we have the right to destroy the planet because someone's coming to save us or the Mother Earth will clean our mess just because. We have to accept our responsibility.

[PDJane]

4. The USSR was corrupt, yes.

However, before we point fingers, the largest single polluter on the planet is........(drum roll, please)....... the US military. http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/2-us-department-of-defense-is-the-worst-polluter-on-the-planet/ or http://tlc.howstuffworks.com/family/identify-worst-polluter-planet.htm or http://www.planetization.org/toxicmilitary.htm or just google it! There's lots out there.