Abusing the Earth... The Shame of our Civilization...

The Shame of our civilization...                     

Degrading the EPA, deregulating environmental protections... dumping toxins in rivers and lakes... are just like chemical attacks and weapons of Mass Destruction...

Word origins intrigue/fascinate me... They tell a story uniquely of their own and open up their unique historical perspective ...

I encountered "mammoth" today... I did not know that it was derived from the huge animal which is extinct now... and I read about it more...

In February Chinese customs have confiscate mammoth tusks imported from Russia ... Not because they are illegal, but because they were not declared...

Chinese customs officers have seized more than a tonne of tusks from animals that have been extinct for thousands of years - mammoths. State media are reporting that the massive haul came from Russia and was seized in north-east China in February. The largest piece of mammoth ivory seized was more than 1.6m (5ft) long, a customs officer was quoted as saying. There is no international ban on the trade but Chinese officials said the haul was not declared.

Mammoth ...  adjective [ not gradable ]  extremely large:

Like in: Building the dam was a mammoth construction project.

*** The word comes from a huge extinct animal... I did not know that...

See below... 

A mammoth is any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus, proboscideans commonly equipped with long, curved tusks and, in northern species, a covering of long hair. They lived from the Pliocene epoch (from around 5 million years ago) into the Holocene at about 4,500 years ago in Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America.

The mammoth stockpiles are part of a booming trade between Russia and China in ivory taken from the skeletons of mammoths found in the Siberian tundra. The effects of global warming in the Arctic has made it easier to collect tusks preserved in ice for thousands of years, researchers say.

Mammoths in Siberia...

and... Check this out...

The flip flops come mainly from poorer countries... China and India... and Over three billion people can afford only flip flops... 

Flip flops washing offshore on Kenyan beaches... posing a risk for animal and plant life...

Is this yours...?

Eight million tons of plastics enter the oceans every year... and they are not biodegradable...

By 2050 there will be more plastic than fish by weight in the oceans...

The way our politicians are legislating... Maybe we all will end up like the mammoths...