How Cruise Ships Can Help Seabirds

                                            Some seabirds get disoriented by the lights of cruise ships, and fly into the ships. Some seabirds rest on cruise ships, and find later there is insufficient room to take off in order to get back into the air. Some birds get confused about how to get off the ship and return to the wild. It would not take much for cruise ships and other ocean bound ships to have at least one person taught the proper way to handle birds that are not injured to be removed from the ships and returned to the wild.

Russian Televisions' Indefensible Support For The Indiscriminate Bombings Of Civilians In Syria

                                      No matter how much indiscriminate bombing Russia does in Syria, RT(Russian Television) will be there (lackeys as they are that pretend to be progressives), to defend every move of Putin. And no, opposing Assad and the mass murder of civilians by Assad and his Russian, Iranian and Hezbollah allies does not mean support for the ruthless Islamists on the other side that are also genocidal murderers.

The Cruise Ship Industry's Contribution To Coral Reef Destruction

                                     The cruise ship industry has made exotic travel available to millions. There are many benefits to this. There are also significant adverse consequences that can be corrected. Thousands of people are now swimming and snorkeling in coral reef areas that were previously inaccessible or hard to reach. Whether on cruise ship sponsored diving or snorkeling excursions or on snorkeling or diving excursions by companies not affiliated with cruise ships, many more people are now swimming, snorkeling and diving on coral reefs than ever before. This at a time when coral reefs are in great decline. Many people damage coral when they snorkel or dive. I have seen with my own eyes people stand on coral, hit coral with their flippers, raise sediment that smothers coral, and in some instances, break off coral.
                                    What the cruise ship industry can do is set strict guidelines regarding the use of coral reefs. People should not be swimming and snorkeling on top of coral reefs that are in shallow waters and that are most vulnerable to damage. Pathways can be established in shallow coral reef areas to guide people around the coral and not on top of it. People swimming, diving or snorkeling in any coral reef area must be held to the highest standards of care.
                                      The cruise ship industry, if it really wants to protect the oceans as it claims, must make sure it protects vulnerable coral reefs. It cannot keep turning a blind eye to the activities of the millions of people it brings to places that were previously untouched.

Prisoner Of Traffic

                               All over the third world traffic grinds to a halt daily as hundreds of millions of people ride toxic spewing vehicles on roads never designed for the volumn of traffic that now exists. People spend hours each day in polluted traffic that barely moves. One stalled vehicle, one accident can mean hours are added to daily commutes. The waste of time and energy, the assault to the environment and to the health and well being of hundreds of millions is staggering.

The United States Determination To Squander Its Wealth On War And A Bloated Military

                                           The United States learned nothing from Vietnam, and rushed full scale into war in Afghanistan and Iraq, never considering the consequences. There were ways to strike back at the Taliban, which was Saudi sponsored, and Al Quada, without a full scale ground invasion. The United States under the dim witted leadership of George Bush and company did not even look at the Soviet experience and failure in Afghanistan, which partially led to the unraveling of the Soviet Union. Now the United States is bogged down in Afghanistan, trillions of dollars lost with significant loss to life and limb on all sides. And then, without completing anything in Afghanistan, Bush and company rushed into Iraq, lying to the American people about why. Few in the mindless media and few politicians questioned why. Certainly not Hillary Clinton, who bet that supporting war made her look better as a candidate for president.
                                        The Obama and Co. quick retreat from Iraq, which was all about politics, not wisdom, left vulnerable middle east religious minorities defenseless against the savagery of the Islamists. What followed was genocide.
                                         No other country in the world is as determined as the United States to maintain an incredibly expensive, bloated military badly in need of reform. The United States has a need to stay strong, but staying strong is not the same as remaining blind and stupid.

The Massive Giveaway To China Of The U.S. Manufacturing Base That Trump And Clinton Will Continue

                                       Two political candidates making promises neither did anything about during their lifetimes. One as a rich and powerful businessman, the other as a rich from politics politician handed everything on a silver platter. For over thirty years U.S. corporations and businesses have given to China and other nations the industrial and manufacturing capabilities of the United States. Seeking cheap labor no matter the consequence, these companies ensured their executives incredibly bloated salaries while making sure worker wages are kept deflated. Now China is an industrial giant, while the United States has become a low cost service economy with a diminished industrial base. In order to feed the insatiable appetite of wall street and others, no one bothered to ask why making computers, phones, shoes, clothes, bicycles, and thousands of other items were impossible in a country that prided itself on having a strong and vibrant middle class. Now the United States has a weakened middle class, relying instead on cheap labor from overseas, where there are few environmental and work condition standards. Maybe instead of removing ways for middle and working class people to earn a living, people should have asked why it was so important to deflate wages and massively inflate the wealth given to corporate and business elites along with Chinese elites.
                                    Meanwhile, corporations that have no loyalty to countries, find places where labor can best be exploited, and where pollution can be emitted with no outcry. (Pollution in one country eventually makes its way worldwide).
                                      Whoever becomes president never did anything about the aforementioned, and certainly will not start now.

The Rich And Privileged Lives Of Abundance In A Degraded World

                                    The people with the ability to change this world for the better are the people with the least incentive to do so. The rich and powerful elites live in a world of abundance and plenty. They do not see the depletion that exists in this world. And even if they see it, it is not something they feel. While the world continues to be environmental degraded and contaminated, almost to the point of no return, those with the ability to really change things have the least desire to do so because in their world everything is fine. So they can continue to have charitable events and pay lip service to the world's poverty and degradation, not realizing that environmental catastrophe will not spare them.