tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4727226025187579533.post4985152703119118635..comments2024-03-27T22:14:41.569+13:00Comments on .: Lockington's Everyday Fiji ... Life Goes OnCrosbie Walshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02541276600232884176noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4727226025187579533.post-89501308872645616482014-11-09T11:36:20.409+13:002014-11-09T11:36:20.409+13:00The drama of plastic bags and their relationship t...The drama of plastic bags and their relationship to saving the planet:<br />There are "you have to start somewhere" and "every little bit counts" theories about protecting the environment. The 'plastic bag' issue is one of them. Its a catchy idea and as victims go this i a relatively easy one. Relatively. Plastic bags have also been banned in Hawaii and, present trends continuing, plastic bags may soon become museum items, things of the past. Plastic bottles are a major menace. Their days may also be numbered. <br /><br />But plastic bags and bottles are merely a minor distraction. <br /><br />The planet's major environment problem is fossil fuel burning--the single major cause of global climate change, rising sea levels, ocean acidification, ice cap melting, methane gas releases into the atmosphere, and the staggering 400 ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere. <br /><br />Unless the fossil fuel burning issue is confronted we are headed for the Sixth Extinction.<br /><br />California, I might remind you and your readers, is the stage for many and famous environmental battles--some won, many lost. To name some: Hetch Hetchy, Mono Lake, Colorado Water issue over a hundred plus years. John Muir and Dave Brower are some of the celebrated citizen victims off some of the great environmental battles lost. Gray Brechin's book, Imperial San Francisco, the third chapter, is a singularly elegant piece on the devastating history of water in California.. <br /><br />Fiji is slitting its own throat on environmental issues. Intergenerational equity is taking a beating. Fiji environmental laws are a joke. Fiji's water policies are also a joke. Time to wake up and smell the roses. Banning plastic bags might be a small symbolic beginning but it will not save Fiji's fragile, and increasingly endangered, island ecosystems.<br /><br /> <br /> <br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12244225641631114936noreply@blogger.com