A scalar field may increase all of the elements within its range of sets at an equal pace or not. The ratios of balances of field elements in a physically modeled ontology may not all increase in the same way; real physical relationships often occur in ways such that some decrease simultaneous with the increase of others. Human population growth and it's initial comparative poverty quantitatively on Earth is thought of as a scalar field form itself with environmental degradation being a coefficient of adversity sufficient to challenge all on the Earth regardless of their present financial standing. Environmental degradation is an empirical threat caused by the rich and their maladroit economic leadership ecologically speaking as well as by the absolute number of people processing natural resources inappropriately from a long range renew-ability perspective although from a micro-economic perspective the default acts of environmental exploitation may even present as dire necessity from the point of view of the poor.
An interesting aspect of Einstein's theory of relativity is that as an object is accelerated to near the speed of light it's mass value approaches infinity. Mass seems to pick up more gravitational weight by passing through so many reference frames of space-time so quickly. Human population growth also seem to experience a similar increase in adversity of maladroit environmental exploitation on Earth as it's population increases and reaches the global carrying capacity for renewable human life population. Solving the population growth/environmental degradation limit successfully ought to be a lot simpler than learning how to travel faster than light.
General global economics occur within various macro-economicntologies that are generally mal-adapted to ecological health globally. It is something like a good unified field theory in physics that solves all of the problems of the forces of the Universe with just one small problem in that it does not allow for the existence of an actual universe today based on the calculations. Pursuing the general happiness of humanity that obvious should include a robust ecosystem globally is a challenging problem for a world presently dominated by an unethically led corruption of the economically saintly visions of Adam Smith, the 18th century economic mystic of whom many hagiographies have been written.
Global corporate networks encourage mindless consummation by the masses in order to concentrate wealth for a trans-national elite of tax dodgers and bank defrauders. Remote control proplits from mortgages of vast global ownership encourage environmentally irresponsible growth and production of homes and cars with resource depletion degraded as an externality to elitist revenue streams; a corporatism that is global has supplanted communism as the primary threat to democracy in the United States today. Without intelligent ecologically and socially responsible political leadership the increase of population sprawl consuming resources for economic survival stimulated by social competition for material opulence instead of private ownership and personal stability, security and happiness has driven a thoughtless tunnel-visioned ethos in government and corporations forward. The human potential for intelligent leadership in response to over-use of environmental resources is under utilized.
Saddam Hussein's burning of oil wells during the 1991 Gulf War demonstrated how anthropogenic atmospheric Co2 emissions is moving upward toward the critical threshold of a trillion tons released. Like the famous McDonald's hamburgers signs 'billions and billions sold' from prior decades, humanity has thus far released nearly a half trillion tons of CO 2 and is dumping another 30 billion tons upward and onward annually critically affecting the oceans and other aspects of the global environment.
Revised scientific analysis shows the polar cap melting at 7.8% per decade. Within 43 years the north pole may have no ice annually in summer. Human greenhouse gassing is probably accountable for the accelerating pace of meltdown due to atmospheric warming.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/01/us/01climate.html? em&ex=1178164800&en=52c30a1542dc7f2e&ei=5087%0A
Humanity of course has existed with civilizations only for 9,000 years while the world is 4 billion years old. Human responsibility for environmental changes are largely denied by commercial talk radio apologists for global corporatist quick trick profits now powers that exploit perhaps inadvertently, and innumerable straw man arguments are applied liberally to smear empirical analysts, even a religion card is used to defend the right of cheap corporate profits through environmental plundering that leave ecological externalities for the public to pay for.
Some of the familiar straw men are 'socialists and reds are attacking us and out right to profit' (it makes no difference to the damaged environment what the political philosophy is of the perpetrators that violate it), the Bible says it's o.k. cause God will make a new Earth (don't count on being excused from supporting catastrophe and Armageddon build up for yourself-further on this Christian theory tangent../how would Jesus have explained to the people of his day the post Planck time at 10 to the minus 43rd power the faster-than-light inflation of the universe from a fraction of a quark size to the size of a grapefruit by 10 to the minus 35th second and the consequent 'big bang' expansion of space time? Could he have said in the Aramaic language of the time, the Universe started from a tittle OR a jot size to a tittle times a tittle to the jot's power, or alternately might he have said the Universe grew from a mustard seed to larger than what you see know like a pregnant woman's belly of vast size? Wouldn't people have then believed in some sort of pregnant uterine cosmology with some sort of delivery in the future? instead Jesus said the universe or kingdom of God is like a tree [growing] with room for all kinds of life...good enough cosmology for the era wasn't it?). Democracy is a responsibility thing with corporations of no more value than any other voter before law. Not Exxon-Mobil nor Freida Freeling have a right to pollute or warm up the atmosphere until the oceans boil away and the annual Earth temperature is 800 degrees farhenheightennugen.
An incredible global broadcast propaganda engine supports fossil fuel economic hegemony over the north. From Qaanaaq to Unakleet pollutants from distant smokestacks and other pollution sources drop deposited by atmospheric currents warming with greenhouse effects. Local macro-economic and energy change is more difficult in northern places with the annual requirement for reliable energy for harsh winter survival. Deep pocketed global corporations rather easily purchase influence and control of localities and concatenate that to state and national control. Fossil fuel development just rolls on decade after decade even as alternate, cleaner, better ,cheaper, safer complete energy systems are neglected. Most politicians even at the federal level disregard meaningful macro-economic-energy-import/export corporate ownership analysis in order to develop knowledge enough to enable meaningful interpolated revisions to dysfunction local, state and federal energy policies. The reason for that is the inertia of influence and dependence upon a formerly constructive and presently retarding fossil fuel industry.
Alaskan oil field developments continue to penetrate and proliferate broadly as an ineffective clique of fossil fuel reliant dullards in the state legislature vote approval of a resolution to descry possible listing of the polar bear as an endangered species due to habitat loss. The state is tied to oil developer's royalty tithing of the state financially and will not significantly invest in diversified energy production from ample wind, geothermal, solar and other plentiful seasonal supplies of alternate fuels.
In Russia the government has played into the oil set' hands and transitioned the state and nation into reliance upon fossil fuels and nuclear power for energy and income making it another sycophant of polluting macro-economic phenomenalities that also allocate profits in a hierarchical way implicitly corrupting democracy's necessary egalitarianism. The same phenomena exists in Iraq with the central legislature and prime minister failing to adopt a distribution of oil field ownership plan to the citizens in order to avoid the usual clique of oil predators running government.
In the world today ten of the twelve most profitable corporations are fossil fuel companies or internal combustion engine auto producers. In Alaska a host of global corporations decree state political development de facto, most recent entrant is the Italian Corporation Eni' that has purchased the Nikaitchuq oil field for 900 million dollars. These 80 wells and 32 offshore islands in the high arctic add more waste in the land, sea and sky disturbing the natural thermal and chemical context of the environment. Thousands of wells exist or are being built or in the planning stages all over Alaska and Russia maladroitly altering the security of the northern ecology and directly that natural healthy environment of humanity. Global corporatism around the world with it's concentration of well and systems control of national macro-economics makes significant national political transition to non-polluting industrial and transport-energy infrastructure development difficult. The most significant aspect of the corporatist-socialist macro-organizational hegemony and obstruction of the deleterious ecological business interface is the Toynbean fall of civilization context parameter usually limited to just one civilization's inability to change. Because the civilization is now a global civilization the inability to move away from multifarious fossil fuel exploitation of the environment and repression of healthier technologies and political change may doom the world's ecology.
The trans-Arctic eco-region is the dump for a variety of pollutants as part of the chemical war on Earth by humanity. A build up of toxic chemicals adversely affects the health of a myriad of wildlife species as well as human health. Global warming and radical environmental alterity aren't the only malefaction's and pervasive changes in continuing alteration of the Arctic environment.
The Amazonian forest debatably is being exploited for farming and industrial development by President Lula DeSilva; political leadership with socialist traits may be as irresponsible as the most predatory corporatists in some cases perhaps; certainly the Soviet Union was one of the greatest offenders upon the health of the Arctic and in all likelihood was number one.
http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/qthinice.asp
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1002-03.ht m polar bear sex changes
http://www.allthingsarctic.com/environment/polluti on.aspx
http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?i d=4608
An article by Susanne Rust of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about biphenyl-A illustrates the wide distribution of water contamination and other sources with serious health risks for humanity and wildlife. The biphenyl-A isn't as glamorous as pcbs of course yet is pervasive in industrialized nations and may help cause prostate cancer as it acts like estrogen. The chemical is used in plastics and many food containers and is likely to be effective at low levels. The waterways of the nation and world have pollution from a number of sources, and many of them are zero-point pollutants that can affect locales as remote as northern Canada and Alaska: http://www.epa.gov/owow/nps/facts/ zero point pollution
Trans-Arctic peoples are also assaulted by mining runoff into water supplies. The greatest active water polluter in Alaska reportedly is the Red Dog Mine. Many Northern peoples are hooked by the dire need for a job to withstand the harsh Arctic winter. Especially for aboriginal peoples the loss of natural environmentally supported healthy lifestyles because of pollution compels a search for a job in a polluting, environmentally destructive extraction industry. These extraction industries often are trans-national front companies to be dumped in case legal liability for pollution arises. Some other companies of extraction industries such as Exxon have litigated one single instance of pollution for nearly twenty years destroying comparative advantage opportunities for employment adjustment by victims of the pollution.
Leadville; a book about mining in Colorado and the toxic waste problem that required superfund sites for remediation, is an excellent book. The state of Alaska evidently hasn't got a similar sort of recent book to investigate the state's own mining pollution problems quantitatively, concisely and contemporaneously. In the New Orleans area my sailboat lost to Katrina was located at a marina near a former superfund site near Slidell.
A number of mining issues arise in S.E. Alaska and in the rest of the state, and the time delays on production of good analytical written materials in book for are substantial. There isn't much recent writing on the subject of mining, mining history, present mine activities and the concatenated effects of chemical pollution from mine tailings and so forth that kill the ecological health of watersheds.
Mining isn't the only point source of dispersed source of killing levels of toxic wastes and habitat destruction for fish of course. The state of Washington lost its salmon fisheries' health through a number of causes including over fishing, destruction of stream health, dams and so forth. For Alaska to keep its wild fisheries healthy, the next administration will need to get off its complaisance and actively investigate and control mine pollution runoff of acid and heavy metals in Alaska.
Some good writer could serve public interests by developing a book proposal at least to consolidate accurately mining issues quantitatively and qualitatively in Alaska and British Columbia....the Canadians presently are going through permitting of a vast open pit mine with a tailing's pond on a tributary of the Stikine River that debauches into S.E. Alaska, another mine proposal is up the Taku River-these rivers are two of the primary historical sources of large salmon in S.E. Alaska. With the piecemeal and inadequate public knowledge of the damage mining runoff causes to the health of waterways controlling these mining sprees is difficult, yet the polluting effects may go on for centuries after the mining shell corporation has gone out of business.
A number of mines have issues; Green's Creek owned by three global mining corporations with records of meaningful pollution including Rio Tonto, Kennecott and Hecla. A number of mines have been developed and abandoned over the years, concise analytical surveys of concatenated water pollution effects ongoing never make it to a public webpage or books-each should receive attention.
The Tulsequah area mines of British Columbia up the Taku, the Kensington, A.J. Treadwell, Klag Bay and Pebble mines join Alaskan history as mines that compile to attack the environment in some way large or small. The Red Dog mine of western Alaska recently made the news as one of the nation's largest emitters of heavy metals yet where is the follow up substantive analysis on the present and long range actual effects for the public.
Mining in Alaska will over time contribute its share to the destruction of fisheries directly and indirectly in order to bring Alaska up to the speed of Washington and Oregon with impounded fishing fleets and hundreds of millions of ongoing publicly paid efforts to restore fishing runs.
The public monitoring of adverse mining activity in Alaska will need to select meaningful a priori control of pollution and non-loss of fishing habitat as part of permitting if government is to be other than crooked as usual regarding extraction industries.
One book 'Predicting Water Quality Problems at Hardrock Mines' (A failure of science, oversight and good practice)' was published in 2006. The author Alan Septoff contributed a useful work that could be a reference source for the anticipated book on 'The History of Mining Pollution in S.E. Alaska and British Columbia Past & Present'.
Alaskans want good jobs, but right thinking Alaskans want good jobs with companies that can be proud of their environmental conservation.
The problems of global pollution affecting waters and people that live on wildlife from the waters are substantively under-studied by the federal administration evidently. Consider a particular region's advanced post-industrial pollution construction challenges...
The administration does not take to heart health issues created for Alaskans living on natural foods from the Arctic Ocean and Beaufort Sea. A recent study of Arviat, Nunavut by Martina Tyrrell in 'Arctic' Vol. 59 considered the high levels of toxicity drawn from seals, beluga Whales, polar bear and in some cases Arctic Char exhibiting deformities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_pollution
Amidst the three general pollutant categories Tyrell mention was that anti-chauvinistically titled POP's, or persistent organic pollutants (this doesn't refer to male insemination of a lesbian drifting female population). POPS such as 'PCB's, DDT, toxaphene, endosulfane, brominated fire retardants' where amongst those Tyrell reported. They arrive by wind and sea, rivers and perhaps some pollution is deposited by garbage and snow machines left by northern as well as from plants causing pollution in the 48 states.
POPS are used in marine hull coatings, lubricants, making plastics, in pesticides and other sources Tyrell noted. Alaskans should be concerned about administration traits to flood the region with oil industry pollutants in the long range, while dispersal of pollutant takes longer than human lifetimes in many instances. The possibility of additional offshore bio corruption by pen reared fish, and of extra oil and gas pipelines to fund a corrupt global oil corporatism retarding U.S. national alternate energy independence even if companies such as Halliburton moving its headquarters to Dubai do provide employment for former cabinet officers of the United States sometimes and receive vast federal contracts now and then should be considered at least by the Congress as reason enough to look for alternate, clean methods of living in a stable environmental configuration.
It is notable that the NOAA concerns about pollution in the Arctic differ from those of Tyrell. The mood of NOAA seems more unconcerned:
http://ccma.nos.noaa.gov/stressors/pollution/assessm ents/ac_arctic.html
ref. http://archive.greenpeace.org/toxics/html/content/po p2.html