Should of read the link better. The plan on shipping to Russia was stopped, because Russia hadn’t agreed to it. This suggests they we’re just gonna do some sea dumping… which results in needles and trash ending up on some beach.
The landfills are temporary, and legally aren’t bonafide landfills, and are expected to be cleared out once a solution is found. They are shoving it in such places out of desperation. Reason why they are making such claims about such places:
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Most states of Eminent Domain, so I doubt it is a private property issue.
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Landfills are scientifically isolated from contaminating water tables humans and agriculture use, and designed to reduce disease exposure.
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Agriculture Land is at a premium in the Levant… more rain then say, Saudi Arabia, buyt you don’t waste it either.
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Likely obscenely close to a residential area, and the wind direction, smell, birds, rats, and bored and curious children don’t explore.
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Not all is nearly as good in Lebanon as Deeryloo thinks, as he utterly fails to contemplate why a French News Channel would report this story in it’s International News Section in English is Lebanon wasn’t having a crisis. Its not a story of how swell it is in Lebanon, and how well they have this issue under control, but of a social and environmental issue utterly broken without a clear path forward. This is scarier, given it was a middle eastern news link, and had to displace a story on the wars in Syria, or Iraq, or Yemen, Afghanistan, Somalia, Libya… they thought it was that fuckijg important.
Since it really is that important, it is deserving of a topic on www.Ilovephilosophy.com in the social sciences section. Why? Cause not all is well.
Lebanon is essentially acting as a modern, liberal government here, at a end stage of our current, near universal trash disposal problem. A couple decades back, needles and biohazard bags would wash up on shore of New Jersey… people became aware stuff dumped into the sea didn’t always stay down.
So where does New Jersey dump? Here… where I live. We live in the Appalachian Plateau… it’s geography produces fairly isolated hills once exposed to strip mining for coal and clay, that are a mile or few wide, and a dozen miles long, with deep vallels between… the top of the hills and valleys are flat, hills very steep. They don’t mingle their water supply till creek level, and nobody has farmed in these creekbeds since the colonial era (why, I dunno why, just seems the universal rule on the west Virginia side of the river).
So New Jersey pays to dump it, we use the same dumps, nobody usually can smell it, as the wind hits the top of a very high up hill surrounded by farmland (isolated water table).
End result is… a win win. Our dumps practice decompisting and overturning of trash levels to purify the hydro best they can, isolate recyclibles, and encourage tthe sun to break down foodstuff. If food doesnt have access to air and sun, it doesnt decompose.
Lebanon isnt third eorld poor, but at the same time, isnt a first workd country either. Its goung to be very difficult to get any country to voluntarily take its trash at a scale it can afford, and the first few years will be very intense… all those landfills Derlydoo you so blibkingly well accepted as a solution, have to be rapidly cleared… the country is already 7 months backlogged… a whole country, 7 minths backed up… needed its shit dumped.
It is very desperatw, iys state mechanism is behaving like a modern liberal western democracy, but no solution in sight.
So realistically… its gonna have to accept sea dumping… meaning Greece and Italy wont have economic migrants half starved on their beaches as theur main oroblem anymore… foreign, contaminated trash will be.
Likewise… they may have to accept the Iraqi practice of landfills on street intersections, in high population areas, with no effective barriers, everyone walks over, dumps their shit in plain view, periodically light it on fire as the fumes and birds circle over. People think global warming, but my concerns isn’t the global warming hoax, but rather the nasty effects of breathing in those low level toxins and vermin. Its deeply unhealthy, and is a real, immediate concern, unlike glaciers in Greenland melting centuries from now through scientific stretches of the imagination through wobbly math.
Only country poor and irresponsible enough, and so desperate to employ it’s workers at any pay, is Syria. It is a war zone, Assad doesn’t give a fuck. This isn’t a good long term scenario.
Russia is currently in a state of war in the black sea region. Turkey will not take kindly to Lebanese barges that are opentopped traveling through Istanbul, but even if it gets it Trash through closed barges, without Turkey changing treaty rights of trash barges entering it’s waters, Lebanon is left hitting the area South East of Ukraine… it’s Sochi territory, good for agriculture, prone to insurgency, is also Russia’s top tourist destination for it’s own population after Moscow with it’s temperate climate. Its not gonna ship the trash to Siberia, but dump it nearby. IF it takes it at all. Which I doubt, as Lebanon can’t pay.
So the ships go out with the trash, a couple of Russians are paid off, saying it’s being dumped, but isn’t. Where does it get dumped? Black Sea, or off Greece?
These barges can’t:
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return haul goods for sale in Lebanon or other new by ports. They are contaminated.
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must reside at sea long enough to appear to of journeyed to Russia and back, can’t hide a fleet of trash barges at some port nearby, someone will notice, especially Turkey… Erdogan will be deeply suspicious by default
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Militants from Russia, if they do go to the black sea region, can link up with militants in Russia, and transport troops and weapons, including transports, back under unglamourous conditions to Hezbollah and ISIS, Al Nursa Front
Learn to read articles critically Derlydoo.