New Charity Decisions
Nov. 2nd, 2009 07:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebIt's getting to be that time of year again when I decide on what charities to support financially. This year I've decided to put all my contributions toward environmental causes.
My first question is: What are the most important environmental concerns? Here are my guesses.
* global warming - said to be dooming us to live as we know it to oblivion within our lifetimes. Eh, maybe that's one.
* ocean health - I think there's so much noise in the oceans that whales always have headaches, and people fish by scraping the geography off the bottom of the sea and now the mass of trash in the oceans is greater than the biomass in the oceans. We're not talking about some hick-town pond where the locals dump the refuse from when they clean out the garage, we're talking about the oceans.
Or maybe a better answer is pollution: atmospheric pollution, air pollution, water pollution, genetic pollution, nanopollution, noise pollution, light pollution. Sometimes it's too much of a good thing; sometimes it's actual bad things.
My first question is: What are the most important environmental concerns? Here are my guesses.
* global warming - said to be dooming us to live as we know it to oblivion within our lifetimes. Eh, maybe that's one.
* ocean health - I think there's so much noise in the oceans that whales always have headaches, and people fish by scraping the geography off the bottom of the sea and now the mass of trash in the oceans is greater than the biomass in the oceans. We're not talking about some hick-town pond where the locals dump the refuse from when they clean out the garage, we're talking about the oceans.
Or maybe a better answer is pollution: atmospheric pollution, air pollution, water pollution, genetic pollution, nanopollution, noise pollution, light pollution. Sometimes it's too much of a good thing; sometimes it's actual bad things.