War Games was just playing on AMC this past weekend. I believe that the sentiment expressed by this film, that there are no winners in a full scale nuclear war, is grounded in fact and not emotions. We already have the example of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to tell us about the devastation possible and the bombs developed later were many times more powerful. Mutual assured destruction was what kept the US and Soviet Union from attacking each other. People had a right to be afraid. We learned that in 1983 the world had a near-miss with nuclear war, when a Russian soldier ignored a false alarm (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov) and did not give orders or launch a counter-strike on the USA. We may never know how many times we were on the brink of global destruction.
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China's water supply has been contaminated by the dumping of toxic human and industrial waste. Pollution-induced algae blooms cause the surface of China's lakes to turn a bright green, but greater problems may lurk beneath the surface; groundwater in 90 percent of China's cities is contaminated.Many times in these cases, the pollution is caused by chemical dumping from nearby factories. Dumping of industrial chemicals, agricultural waste, and urban wastewater has contaminated China's water resources such that over half of all rivers in the country are unsafe for human contact.China's sweeping campaign to cleanse filthy lakes and rivers has improved water quality in some regions — but dirty water still plagues parts of the country. China began tightening environmental rules in 2001, in an effort to cut water pollution emitted by cities, industrial facilities and farms.Dam construction has played significant roles in flood control, irrigation, navigation, and energy supply; however, the enormous negative effects, such as landslides, ecological problems, and water quality decline, could surpass positive gains.
