How about the chemical cocktail of pharmaceuticals that we routinely discard into our water supply?
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/03/science/earth/03water.html?_r=1

PBS's Frontline just did a program on


Poisoned Waters

Agreed that we made a lot of improvements but there are still many things left to be done. The top of the issue is our selfishness. We think we own nature (land, water, resource, etc...) but it shouldn't be so. Everyone should be a steward to the land that they live upon -- which should bring some attitude of responsibility -- not the exploitive ones that we currently have.

Thanks Dinh Ton,

I watched most of it and what struck me was how little we actually know.

What we do know is that to clean up this mess (if it can be cleaned up at all) will be extremely costly. Being that we are already in a global depression the necessary resources and the will and knowledge to smoothly transition from BAU to a new paradigm is probably be lacking.

I wish I could find reasons to be more optimistic but things are not looking good for humanity's future.

If its 20 years or so before that pod of Orcas in Puget Sound dies off, I figure that's about what we have before TSHTF for us as well.

Pack your shit folks, were going away!
George Carlin, Save the Planet