If you were to ask me about my thoughts on the events happening with Isreal and all those lovely people my response you probably simply be "It breaks my heart". As I’ve said before I don’t blame either side for the crisis, and I blame the entire human race for developing into what it is today. It’s an incredibly sad situation, and I usually cry when I see it on the news. Partly because I’m a sucky baby like that and I cry when I see… basically anything and partly because it envokes to many different emotions in me.

I’m so sad for all the people that are there, and embarassingly happy that I live in Canada where the most we deal with are a few shootings, which happen very rarely. Then I get kind of sad again that I don’t have anyone to thank for my life, nothing to believe in. But then I remember that that problem is peanuts in comparison to their issues, *and* I remember all the insane things that have arisen in the world are because of religion… the wars, the fights, the bigotry…all of it spawned because of religion.

Anyway, I just managed to take a post that I was going to gear towards the environment take a mini anti-religion rant spin. The one thing I will vocalize that will have a bit of…side taking…. in it is this. I’m super pissed at Isreal for bombing the power plant in Lebanon.

Lebanon’s Environment Ministry says the oil flooded into the sea when
Israeli jets hit storage tanks at the Jiyyeh plant south of Beirut on
July 13 and 15, creating an ecological crisis that Lebanon’s government
has neither the money nor the expertise to deal with.

"We have never seen a spill like this in the history of
Lebanon. It is a major catastrophe," Environment Minister Yacoub
al-Sarraf told Reuters.

"The equipment we have is for minor spills. We use it once in
a blue moon to clean a small spill of 50 tonnes or so. To clean this
whole thing up we would need an armada … The cost of a full clean-up
could run as high as $40-50 million."

In other words, it’s never going to get cleaned up. The Mediterranean Sea accounts for apx 1% of the worlds oceans, but contains nearly 90% of all the worlds marine life. In the particular area of the spill the Chelonia mydas or the green turtle is an endangered species, now facing an ever bigger problem than just the normal pollution and fishing industry that it faced prior to the crisis.

Also there is a significant amount of seagrass meadows that have been effected. These are vital breeding and feeding grounds for fish and other marines speices. The seagrass meadows help regulate the water quality and literally breath life into the water as they are mass producers of oxygen.

I don’t want to take a lot of emphasis of the fact that kids and innocent people are dying and that there is a huge international crisis going on over there … but I don’t think all of that completely out-does the environmental distruction that is happening at all. It just adds yet another reason for me to frown when I think about all of it. I feel like I need to keep typing and keep trying to rationalize all of this - but I know it’s not going to happen. …So i’m just going to stop.

(edit: I see now…i forgot to put a source in there… ooops. click here for more.)