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Australia OKs Dumping Dredge Waste In Barrier Reef
An anonymous reader writes "Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has approved the dumping of 3 million cubic meters of dredge waste in park waters. The decision has been blasted by environmentalists. 'This is a sad day for the reef and anyone who cares about its future,' said WWF Great Barrier Reef campaigner Richard Leck. 'The World Heritage Committee will take a dim view of this decision, which is in direct contravention of one of its recommendations.'"
Yeah as if Getup will actually get anything done.
That is certainly the attitude of the modern green movement, which has led it to where it is today - whining about things that have no relevance to green ideology.
Easily. I've seen the green movement fifteen years ago, and I've seen it today. Very different animals. Back then they fought for difficult but necessary causes - stopping acid rain, getting NOx/SO2 emission quotas, establishing wildlife sanctuaries.
Now that they won almost all of it, they found themselves with a lot of power, and only increasingly difficult to explain to the public - kind of causes. So instead they turned to things like these: "oh my god, they are taking seabed soil, lifting it to make harbour, moving it to a different spot in the ocean and putting it back on the ocean floor, this is DUMPING OF WASTE".
See I'm old enough to remember what "dumping of waste" actually meant back when green movement was legitimate. They would literally picked the current green movement for obvious misuse of their terminology which destroyed the value of their cause.
And that is why current green movement is shit. Reset your blind rage and read the actual story. They fucked with you by telling you it's "waste dumping".
What actually happens is that ocean soil is dug up to make room for harbour, and they need some place to put it back down on ocean floor. This soil is basically mud and rocks, and they are putting it back down in the spot with same mud and rocks.
So I'm sorry, but I'm the one actually looking at the cause, and you are the useful idiot that sees words "dumping waste" and immediately assigns parallels with actual waste dumping. And you are the type of person that modern green movement feeds these bullshit lines to. Because you don't read what is actually happening - you just read "waste dumping" and you start foaming at mouth in rage and call everyone who points out the facts of the matter that are in direct conflict with the PR line "useful idiots" without ever bothering to fact check.
Which is why this bullshit feeding continues. Thanks for enabling it!