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Australian Great Barrier Reef lost more than half its coral cover in last 27 years
The Australian Great Barrier Reef has lost more than half its coral cover in the past 27 years, a new study shows. Researchers analysed data on the condition of 217 individual reefs that make up the World Heritage Site. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesAnother great contribution of Anglo stewardship of the lands they usurped.
Oct 03rd, 2012 - 11:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The toll of damage these people have inflicted never grows smaller.
Environmental performance index 2012 http://environment.yale.edu/news/article/switzerland-ranks-at-top-of-2012-environmental-performance-index/
Oct 04th, 2012 - 03:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina forecast to be 112 out of 132 countries. Bottom of the class again haha.
Oct 04th, 2012 - 04:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0And who believes in anglo-saxon lead rankings? They always place themselves at the top of these rankings, which of course means they have not a shread of factual objectivity and are nothing more than ethnic props.
Oct 04th, 2012 - 04:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0It's funny you anglos think that any of us believe any such studies.
Do you believe Russian, Chinese or Arab studies on you? Why do you think you are different than them in using such studies for propaganda? You aren't.
I think I see your confusion.
Oct 04th, 2012 - 04:18 am - Link - Report abuse 01. Anglos are a minority in the U.S.
2. See one :)
I had a feeling you'd come out with the same paranoid “they're all out to get us” spiel. So basically you'd only believe a report if it was issued by the Argentine authorities. Along the lines of INDEC I suppose...
Oct 04th, 2012 - 04:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0@6
Oct 04th, 2012 - 04:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0Why don't you believe Russian, Chinese, and other rankings?
Why is it always the other side that has to prove (or unprove, that's how crazy you people are), things?
Like clyde 15 told me last week “if we brits accuse you of being a thief, you have to disprove you aren't” ... that is your worldview anglos.
Pretty underwhelming.
seems like someone fell for the Australian-Anglo story when they make up stuff about the reefs (•-•).
Oct 04th, 2012 - 04:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0What are Australians? Persian?
Oct 04th, 2012 - 04:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0So lets see, back to topic:
1. British Forests? Completely hewn.
2. Falkland Island's Wolf (warrah?) Gone.
3. Tasmanian Tiger (thylacine?) Gone.
4. USA prairie ecosystem? Destroyed.
5. Arctic “penguin” (great alk) Gone.
6. Great barrier reef? Dissapearing.
Yes, anglos are so good at preserving the environment. Must be true because some posh anglo college says it is.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
http://www.moon.com/destinations/argentina/background/the-land/environmental-issues
Oct 04th, 2012 - 04:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0Water
Drinking water is normally potable, but a historical legacy of polluted waterways derives from, first, the proliferation of European livestock on the pampas, followed by the processing of hides and livestock, and then by heavy industry. The textbook case is Buenos Aires’s Riachuelo, in the working-class barrio of La Boca, which more closely resembles sludge than water; its bottom sediments, thanks to chemical runoff from factories here and in nearby Avellaneda, are an even greater toxic hazard.
Soil Conservation and Deforestation
Centuries of livestock impacts, both grazing and trampling, have caused serious erosion even in areas where there were never native forests, such as the pampas and the Patagonian steppes. Even today, some forested national parks—most notably Lanín and Los Glaciares—have been unable to eliminate grazing within their boundaries.
The hot-button forest issues, though, are in the northern subtropical forests. In Misiones Province, agricultural colonists and commercial tea and yerba mate plantations have cut over much of the selva misionera, a diverse, wildlife-rich rain forest that cannot easily reestablish itself when its natural recycling mechanisms are disturbed. In Jujuy and Salta Provinces, the yungas cloud forest on the edge of the Andes has already suffered deforestation from construction of a nearly pointless natural gas pipeline over the Andes to Chile, and from widespread clear-cutting to extract just a few prize timber species.
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Looks like Argentina isn't a shining exmaple to us all, tisk...
Dude, you are you kidding? Whatever they say is irrelevant end of story.
Oct 04th, 2012 - 05:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0And besides... All of what you wrote applies only to countries that still have an ENVIRONMENT TO PROTECT!
You can't say any of that about the UK because there is nothing TO protect! Its all gone, the forests, the pristine grassland, the unpolluted flatland... NOTHING. All gone.
“Whatever they say is irrelevant end of story.” And you really have to wonder why people have trouble taking you seriously? You're about as brainwashed and intractable as those Malvinista drones - endlessly bitching about the evil Anglos and their failings; totally rejecting that your country has the exact same failings, or worse.
Oct 04th, 2012 - 05:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0Yes, I don't believe what Anglo sources say. Why should I?
Oct 04th, 2012 - 05:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0No one has ever answered to me that question. That's all I need to know.
So, the “Anglos” are responsible for Starfish, tropical cyclones and global warming. Even for you that is quite a biased statement !
Oct 04th, 2012 - 09:52 am - Link - Report abuse 014 Clyde15 - We rule and run the world - didn't you know (other than the lizard people of course)
Oct 04th, 2012 - 10:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0Comment removed by the editor.
Oct 04th, 2012 - 10:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0@1 What are you doing on here, TiT? It has nothing to do with you puerile, depraved genocides of South America. It has to do with Australia and Australians. Members of the (British) Commonwealth of Nations. It will also be of interest to Brits (obviously) and other members of the Commonwealth. A world-wide organisation, incidentally, with far more members than your piddling little LatAm ones.
Oct 04th, 2012 - 11:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0@4 You don't have the intelligence to “believe” anything except the garbage put out by your “government”. But I may remind you of this!
@13 You're too thick to be bothered with. Typical argie centric! Never been beyond the outskirts of its hovels.
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