In Malaysia the breaking news yesterday was that fuel price is going up 25 cents per litre. Ouch! We had just gotten used to RM 1.70 per litre now we are back to almost RM 2. Neither the Malaysian public nor the government are used to volatile fuel price. In Thailand or the US, the pump price is a price war among different companies, this is most likely where it is going to head in Malaysia; pointless for the gov. to announce every time the price goes up or down, soon they will realise it is very detrimental to popularity, the real currency of political parties.
CNBC put out an article "What rout? Oil on track for the best month since 2009." Demand is rising from China and all the oil money backers are applauding again. 2009 was the climate conference that sounded the emergency bell–so much for that. The priority to green our earth still seems eluded by the priority to blacken our earth.
Yes plastics made from crude oil is doing very well too. There is so much of it in our seemingly pristine oceans that sailors who used to enjoy the the peace of sailing are perturbed by the constant concern over a tangle with rubbish. If you are Malaysian like me, please take note that we are among the top 10 plastic polluters of the ocean in Asia, contributing a whooping 1 million tons! I recycle as much plastic as I can, I even feel guilty when I have to put plastic in a common trash can. I got this statistic from a CNN article about the problem posted a few weeks earlier. Unfortunately when I looked up the article the statistics provided in a map format that showed China as the biggest Asian polluter (close to 9 million tons) is not there anymore. Plastics polluting the oceans is killing sea life and polluting the fish people live on but it is a problem that can be drasticly reduced by caring and changing our trash habits. UN Report: Our oceans are trashed with plastic. A Black Earth is no future at all.
CNBC put out an article "What rout? Oil on track for the best month since 2009." Demand is rising from China and all the oil money backers are applauding again. 2009 was the climate conference that sounded the emergency bell–so much for that. The priority to green our earth still seems eluded by the priority to blacken our earth.
Crude oil, that black sludge that's the source of 'kind of' cheap energy and forever plastics.
Yes plastics made from crude oil is doing very well too. There is so much of it in our seemingly pristine oceans that sailors who used to enjoy the the peace of sailing are perturbed by the constant concern over a tangle with rubbish. If you are Malaysian like me, please take note that we are among the top 10 plastic polluters of the ocean in Asia, contributing a whooping 1 million tons! I recycle as much plastic as I can, I even feel guilty when I have to put plastic in a common trash can. I got this statistic from a CNN article about the problem posted a few weeks earlier. Unfortunately when I looked up the article the statistics provided in a map format that showed China as the biggest Asian polluter (close to 9 million tons) is not there anymore. Plastics polluting the oceans is killing sea life and polluting the fish people live on but it is a problem that can be drasticly reduced by caring and changing our trash habits. UN Report: Our oceans are trashed with plastic. A Black Earth is no future at all.
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