Jan 2009

Its pretty bad when Dolphins start committing suicide.

Just recently the actor Jeremy Pivens was hospitalized for Mercury poisoning from eating to much sushi/raw seafood.

Are the alarm bells reaching your ears yet?

This all got me to thinking: What are the Mercury poisoning statistics in Japan, a country notorious for eating everything and anything coming out of the ocean?

Its no wonder, humans have been using the Oceans as a garbage dump since the dawn of time. I remember in 1984 I was in the Navy and attached to a Helicopyer Squadron based in Coranado, Ca. and we had deployed on a World Tour on the Carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70). I was a low ranked airman, and as such, had to help in what is called a "working party" whenever requested. This is a special detail in addition to your regular job onboard the Carrier and all departments onboard the ship have to supply "x" number of men.

So the call went out over the 1mc for a "work party" to go to a certain area of the ship. The numbers sounded familiar to me and sure enough when I got to the assigned location it turned out to be a huge storage room that we had just previously filled to the rafters with these big plastic 15 gallon buckets of paint. This room was at least 150 ft x 100ft and 9 ft high and like I said, filled to capacity with this paint. The orders where now to take ALL the paint that we had just put in this room and move it out to make way for something else we were to fill this humongous space with. Guess where we were order to move the paint to?

If you guessed "Davey Jones Locker"/overboard you are the Grand Prize winner!! Even at the time I knew that this was so wrong on so many levels = the wasted materials, the wasted energy and fuel that had gone into transporting this material, the wasted cost and manufacturing effort and of course the Damage to the environment a huge room full of paint thrown into the ocean would have. But when your in the Military you dont question orders, you just robotically execute them. If you do question orders you are labeled a "troublemaker" and your life is turned into hell and you are soon on the outside looking in. So its not in your personal best interest to question orders. Anybody thats been in the Military can and will tell you this.

So just multiply THAT over eons and its really no surprise that people are being sickened by the things we eat out of the oceans, and that other mammals = Dolphins, whales, seals are dying in droves on the beaches. I mean it doesnt take a Nuclear Phycisist to figure THAT one out.

So what does this say about us as Human beings as a society at large?

What does this say about our future?

Answer: NOT GOOD. Ya think?