Absent any recent knowledge about chemistry, and also a pre-21st century mindset that the world was large, and that actions in 1 place don’t impact others, they dumped chemical weapons into the ocean. http://www.treehugger.com/clean-water/65000-tonnes-nazi-chemical-weapons-were-dumped-baltic-sea-70-years-ago.html Sadly this seems to still be common, albeit regulated practice: http://www.gc.noaa.gov/gcil_mp_ocean_dumping.html
Month: April 2014
Firefighters in western Hampden County came to the rescue of four hikers who became lost in the woods on Thursday evening.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/54865661/ns/local_news-springfield_ma/t/hikers-rescued-after-search-chester/ “Fristik said that firefighters had to go through some very steep and difficult terrain in their efforts to find the other two hikers.” Know your route, take proper gear. People risk life and limb to save you.
Guy Waterman & The Waterman Fund
Backwoods Ethics and Wilderness Ethics are two of my favorite books. These books, by Laura and Guy Waterman, helped shape my summer in 2002, and every day from that point onward.Check out the Waterman Fund at http://www.watermanfund.org/ “Without some management, wildness cannot survive the number of people who seek to enjoy it,” they write. “But…