Though I must have watched the film WALL-E half a dozen times, and would not mind watching it couple of times more on TV reruns, I had always thought that the Waste Dump, the Pollution and Earth laid-waste were too much of an imagination running wild. I was under the impression that there is too much land and humans have already harnessed the technology to manage waste - except nuclear waste, that is.
Thus it was with horror I watched the BBC clip ‘Apocalyptic' island of waste in the Maldives’ [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18073917]. Of all the places, I’d thought that Maldives would have been conscious about waste management and pollution and would have been a role model in waste management to every other nation on Earth.
I mean, the way Maldivians have been going on and on about impact of Climate change on their nation and the urgent need for every other nation to act speedily on protecting the environment led me to believe that they, the Maldivians, are eco-warriors and can teach a few things to India, at least, on waste control, pollution and eco-management.
They had
It reminded me so much of the wasteland in the movie WALL-E. What galled me utmost was that the island nation, so hoarse and loud in International and Inter-Governmental meets on pollution and Climate Change has dumped waste-oil barrels from which oil is leaking into the ground. In case we forget, Maldives islands are coral islands, barely a foot or so above sea level and that leaking oil surely must have reached the Indian Ocean by now. So much for hot air. Not that leaking oil, even waste oil, into the ground is acceptable anywhere else!
Simon says that he has never seen so many flies. Well I did not look for flies, but try as I might, I can’t spot any WALL-E there - only a couple of men. Can you? (except for the one I inserted into the image).
(image grab from BBC video - WALL-E insert by mad.madrasi)
Thus it was with horror I watched the BBC clip ‘Apocalyptic' island of waste in the Maldives’ [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18073917]. Of all the places, I’d thought that Maldives would have been conscious about waste management and pollution and would have been a role model in waste management to every other nation on Earth.
I mean, the way Maldivians have been going on and on about impact of Climate change on their nation and the urgent need for every other nation to act speedily on protecting the environment led me to believe that they, the Maldivians, are eco-warriors and can teach a few things to India, at least, on waste control, pollution and eco-management.
They had
- their (and World’s) first & only ever underwater Cabinet meeting;
- called for street level direct action on Climate Change;
- forced the UN to adopt the Male Declaration on Human Dimension of Global Climate Change; and,
- threatened to buy land in and relocate their nation to either Australia, Sri Lanka or India.
It reminded me so much of the wasteland in the movie WALL-E. What galled me utmost was that the island nation, so hoarse and loud in International and Inter-Governmental meets on pollution and Climate Change has dumped waste-oil barrels from which oil is leaking into the ground. In case we forget, Maldives islands are coral islands, barely a foot or so above sea level and that leaking oil surely must have reached the Indian Ocean by now. So much for hot air. Not that leaking oil, even waste oil, into the ground is acceptable anywhere else!
Simon says that he has never seen so many flies. Well I did not look for flies, but try as I might, I can’t spot any WALL-E there - only a couple of men. Can you? (except for the one I inserted into the image).
(image grab from BBC video - WALL-E insert by mad.madrasi)
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