I wonder at what point humankind will be (if, we will be, I suppose) looking back at these kinds of processes and say... what the fuck were they thinking?????
"...Environmentalists estimate at least 1 percent of Russia's annual oil production, or 5 million tons, is spilled every year. That is equivalent to one Deepwater Horizon-scale leak about every two months. Crumbling infrastructure and a harsh climate combine to spell disaster in the world's largest oil producer, responsible for 13 percent of global output.
Oil, stubbornly seeping through rusty pipelines and old wells, contaminates soil, kills all plants that grow on it and destroys habitats for mammals and birds. Half a million tons every year get into rivers that flow into the Arctic Ocean, the government says, upsetting the delicate environmental balance in those waters.
It's part of a legacy of environmental tragedy that has plagued Russia and the countries of its former Soviet empire for decades, from the nuclear horrors of Chernobyl in Ukraine to lethal chemical waste in the Russian city of Dzerzhinsk and paper mill pollution seeping into Siberia's Lake Baikal, which holds one-fifth of the world's supply of fresh water...."
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to whom it may concern:
it is true. the U.S. has achieved regime change. but at what cost and for how long?
please consider these brave U.S. soldiers. may they find happiness in their lives.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2077117/Portraits-Marines-service-Afghanistan.html
CanuckBuck
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