Free Market 1, Bay 0
Jul 26th, 2005 at 2:01 pm by Susie
For many years, there was a moratorium on construction and other causes of pollution in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Once they lifted it, this was bound to happen:
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - More than a third of the Chesapeake Bay was a low-oxygen “dead zone” during monitoring in July, meaning the nation’s largest estuary is on pace to have one of its most unhealthy summers on record, according to data released Monday. “Dead zones” occur when fertilizer from farms and other pollutants high in nitrogen and phosphorus are washed by rain into the bay. They [fuel] an explosive growth of algae, which die and rot. Bacteria devouring the decaying mass consume oxygen, suffocating marine life.
But, But, Where is the “solid science” that there is any link between pollution and unregulated greed, er,um, I mean free commerce?