According to The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/12/world/europe/12hungary.html?_r=1&hp
Hungary has arrested the managing director of the company responsible for polluting waterways with a poisonous red sludge that has killed eight, injured hundreds, devastated plant and animal life and destroyed millions of dollars in private property.
The government also retook control of the formerly state-owned MAL Zrt. In the meantime the officials are racing to construct a concrete barrier and emergency dam to contain the sludge before three huge gaps in the remaining wall fail.
Critics accuse the government of overreacting for political gain. Supporters claim it had no choice if it were to protect the public interest.
According to a report in the October 10 Bloomberg/Business Week (http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-10-06/hungary-red-sludge-threatens-danube-commission-says.html, the release of the red sludge could reach the Danube River and threaten water supplies in neighboring countries. Hungary is engaged in heroic efforts to prevent the spill from spreading that far. The highly toxic sludge is a byproduct of alumina production and spilled from the Magyar Aluminum Zrt. Reservoir.
Are we helpless to prevent these constant attacks on our life support systems by the institutions that control our lives? Are we trying to commit species suicide? And if so, why oh why do we have to take so many other species with us?
Here's what I think...
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