From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Fri, 17 Mar 2017 22:21:40 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] OCEANS: "Naval Exercises Add Trillions of Pieces of Plastic Debris to Oceans" |
Naval Exercises Add Trillions of Pieces of Plastic Debris to Oceans By Dahr Jamail Truth out March 15, 2017 For the next two decades, the US Navy will inject hundreds of thousands of pounds of flares and billions of metal-coated glass fibers into ocean waters off the coasts of Washington and Oregon. When the last two decades are added in, the Navy will have left behind more than half a million pounds of flares and trillions of microfibers of chaff (a radar countermeasure dropped by aircraft) by the year 2037. Additionally, as Truthout previously reported, upcoming naval exercises will inject 20,000 tons of heavy metals and explosives into the seas. These shocking numbers are due to a widespread domestic military expansion, which entails a dramatic uptick in the number of naval training exercises conducted each year. … For the entire article, see http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/39846-naval-exercises-add-trillions-of-pieces-of-plastic-debris-to-oceans -- Lenny Siegel Executive Director Center for Public Environmental Oversight a project of the Pacific Studies Center P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042 Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 <lsiegel@cpeo.org> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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