Tire "Solution" Is Big Failure
Whether it is a tropical forest or a coral reef, Earth's varied environments are complex and rarely aided by human efforts to "improve" them.
NPR's story about the Florida effort to aid native sea life by dumping tires into the ocean in the 1970's is another in a long list of examples.
Often the "fix" is to deal with a problem already caused by human interference with the environment. (Often the "fix" is to introduce a non-native species to control another species which has taken over in an environment because human intervention has removed its predator(s); soon the introduced species is a bigger problem.)
NPR's story about the Florida effort to aid native sea life by dumping tires into the ocean in the 1970's is another in a long list of examples.
Often the "fix" is to deal with a problem already caused by human interference with the environment. (Often the "fix" is to introduce a non-native species to control another species which has taken over in an environment because human intervention has removed its predator(s); soon the introduced species is a bigger problem.)
posted by Russ Williams at
2:03 AM
2 Comments:
Russ,
What a sad story, i.e., what once seemed like a good idea turns into a disaster many years later. Let's just hope that eventually the coral will be replenished.
By the way, don't you ever sleep, e.g., writing this blog on Thursday 5 July 2007 at 2:03 AM?
Bob Sebrosky in Charlotte, Thursday 5 July 2007 ~ 10:30AM
I usually sleep quite well, thank you, Bob.
Not yesterday morning, however.
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