ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Mid December 2009  Croatia is evaluated as the 48^th country in the world concerning environmental issues that caused shock in media...Only then and not again the media asked why is it so....

Unfortunately, the position of the environment protection in our country was reduced on the enthusiasm of unpaid 'catastrophics' how Dr.Sci. Jelaska, the accademist, named us irronicaly.

Some of us are joined in a handful of interest groups from the pure SPITE fighting for better living conditions for the nation, although they know that their efforts are measured and categorized as a attack of Don Quixote on windmills. Here and there appears a short dash or photo of their actions, such as today's sale of the golf ball instead of eggs, as a protest to the 'golfisation' of the agricultural fields on which crops do not grows but the jack golf holes. 'Bitten wolf by Gretel', there is no political will to draw more serious cuts, because we know we have no money ...

Anyway we have only handful of such eco groups such as Eko Kvarner, Zeleni Osijek, Eko Zadar, Zelena Akcija, Eko Pan-Karlovac, and Zeleno Srce dealing with the County ecoproblems of Sisak-Moslavina County.

More than ten years ago I wanted to see Greenpeace in Croatia, talk to Austrian Greenpeace, German Greenpeace and Headquarters in the Netherlands but I was clearly been told the priority is India, Israel, we are not in plans...Only what we got was visit of Mr. Benny Haerlin...

A list on which we occupy the infamous low rating are not the only categorized by Germanwatch and Climate Action Network Europe, according to the press freedoms we are somewhere at the infamous the same level, and according the purity from 'GMO free countries' English internet site 'genwatch' placed us on the list of growers of GMOs, because of GMO corn growth.

Bioethical Council established 1999 to stop penetration of GMO's to Croatia, or at least we believed so, on 'The Round Table Against GMO's' organized on April 10^th 1999 by HSS party, under the presidency of the same above named accademist issued Permition to conduct tests by Pioneers GMO corn seeds “ of only 1 kgs seed” but in Belje appeared hectars of GMO grown corn by some sort of magic corn...??...

So from GMO free country in shortest time we become a GMO grower.

Good that catchword 'Croatia-heaven on earth' masterpiece of our tourism minister that was withdrawn because it would sound very grotesque ...As well thousands useless posters printed with the written 'Croatia-GMO free country'...

I wish it were, truly...
At one time, in one of the election show Ms. politician DN evaluate the environmental theme as 'nice theme', but still no progress after that words ...
    

When our 'whistle blowers' warn on substances harmful to humans and the environment, the people of power hush them up right away, ridicules, laugh out their so called ' incompetence'.

Starting from my own: in February of 2005 I have sent the article in the Zagreb's daily Vjesnik, in that article I responded to the former article of my former professors from the university (not taught me, but I did graduate in the department), who pointed out that there are no people who are ready to show reaction and send replies to the certain problems. I just wanted to express my support to him so wrote the article the harmful and toxic substances in daily use, it has been printed, but has caused the attention I did not expected. The state toxicologist named me ' the lady that all disturbs her', a strong toxicological argument!

This gentleman defended himself that in its 'database' has no reports of toxicity tera phthalates and Teflon. Evidently we do not use the same data base so I found out that in the USA noticed that the teflon kitchen ware caused death of home pets canaries, who are very sensitive to toxic fumes. Seems like it was sufficient alert for the USA citizens that something is wrong with teflon, but we seems do not care much.

So some one had to warn the nation.

Although he was in charge to do it.
    

I do not understand how Teflon could get the FDA trade license as a safe product, such unstable compounds such as Teflon, which at the temperatures above 300 degrees Celsius collapse evaporating fumes and crude particles of teflon decomposition, releasing for inst. compound in small quantities, true, indeed, but very poisonous, identical to that found in the Baxter dialyzers responsible for over twenty deaths of kidney patients in Croatia!

To check above you do not need internet data base but our subject book, please see Noller: Chemistry Of Organic Compounds, and from that book, colleague toxicologist and me have exams on our Faculty ...

SO I DO POLITELY REQUEST THAT THE STICKER YOU GET TO THIS POTTERY WITH WARNING NOT TO OVERHEAT IT, DO YOUR EFFORTS TO R E S P E C T IT!

Even better DO NOT USE TEFLON WARE AT ALL!!!

About the harmful effects of the tera-phthalates all the publications wrote a month later ...
  

It is also notorious fact that the Pliva acidic sewage leaked all way down to river SAVA, that is known from the 80-ies of last century.

It is not clear to me how it was washed out from the underground, because Jarun was declared water protection zone. I pray that your readers evaluate the quality of water protection zones where the gas station ought to be built at Horvacanskoj, close to the central heating pipe lines!
  
And it's not a evil remark that if we continue to pollute sources of drinking water, in the way we are doing, soon we may be very thirsty! And not only Pliva acidic sewage leaking is responsible, we have in the water pesticides (eg atrazine), nitrogen compounds of NPK fertilizer in the water. ..

In our TV “Croatia Alive” mrs. Vesna Pusic mentioned that from the 82 tested sources of waters, only 12 had sufficient quality of water, that means majority fails!

And of course that the great deal of Zagreb's citizens, if not all are drinking Sava river waters, filtrated trough out pebbles of Sava banks. Filtered from what??? Can for inst. dioxin from celulose factory Krsko be filtered? Can radioactivity be filtered??

Why was dr. Sci.Branica literally to his death warning us on overheating Sava river:why is Sava overheated, because of insufficient supply of water to the cooling system of Krsko nuke plant, or I hope not, something is wrong with the process...

By the way when you have read last time data on radioactivity river Sava? EVER read??
    

Of course my disobey was paid by disconnection of my phone for 12 days because of the 'broken wire', and that 3 teams of T-Com's technicians were not able to find out what was wrong ( the phone bill was paid). Of course my defense Vjesnik did not print even though they are obliged to do so under The Law on the Press ...
      

'Lady who all bothers' lived in Sisak' Caprag early 50s of the last century, water was flowing from the taps yellow, we had to boiled it, and only when a strong wind blew clouds of black smoke did not choked us, in our homes near by closed windows ! Ecological problems of Sisak, our Chelyabinsk, does not come from yesterday ...

For leaking our pipeline Naftovod they blame corrosion. Fuel oil tanks in accidents are often polluting soil, water, underwater, underground water. The residents are supplied by tanks of drinking water, but for how long?

Because it is unfortunately permanent pollution! Because this contamination as well as the radionuclides contamination is contamination of the worst kind and its IMPOSSIBLE TO REMOVE IT...

Exxon Valdez oil tanker on March 24th 1989, stranded in the Sound of Prince William in Alaska, known fact: fifteen years later, American chemists and biologists checking the efficiency of cleansing of the Sound. Unfortunately for them they found that all the animals with fish in the food chain are sick, laid eggs were sterile ...

This legacy of oil pollution will remain permanently!
  
Unfortunately, surface contamination precipitate into the deeper layers, the evaporation of soil moisture by drying them again only takes them to shallower layers, but pollution remains ...

    COP 15 - the climate summit in Copenhagen of city mayors gives hope that at least something will be change, but I'm afraid that's already 12:15! But the tiny results as in Durban and further more... And we simply stupidly rejecting to understand that our time for protection of our environment is inevitably running out of our time...

Twelve hours was the eighties of last century, when Bhopal happened in India:December 2/3rd. 1984, 40 tons of methyl isocyanate escaped into the atmosphere in Union Carbide's pesticide factory. It is estimated that there died immediately 8,000-10,000 and another 15,000 victims died later from the effects of poisoning. A totally exposed to inhalation of methyl isocyanate was over 520 000 people, serious damage to health remained at 120,000 citizens, however, of these 10-15 are dieing monthly. Only in 1997. died the 2165 victims. Damages of $ 400 per capita did not get all because of corruption in administration ...

Chernobyl as it is well known, has caused 57 deaths by direct irradiation, died of cancer 4,000, a figure as well as for Bhopal is not final ...

From amids last century, Mato Grosso, rainy forests in Brazil reduced in 60 years to approximately 1/3 of its surface! We have by incredible speed succeeded to destroy 2/3 of the lungs of our planet! And that plants absorb carbon dioxide in their photosynthesis of chlorophyll dismissing our precious oxygen. And we did not need an artificial tree with substances that break down carbon dioxide, plants, our green layer doit for us millions of years already and still gives us oxygen!
And speaking of Mato Grosso, there are contaminated waterways by mercury that the gold miners used for gold amalgamation. It is exactly this mercury that causes the extinction of the first nations of the rain forest ...
 As soon as we stop cutting of the Amazon rainforest   we ​​will be breathing easier, literally!
  
Iceland is the habitat of bird species that call the sea parrot. Ornithologists, who as a child was able to count in one night, a hundred sea-parrot than, can now in 'good night' observing, count only 20 of them ... So where are all the birds gone?
    
Unfortunately, contamination of the Earth has reached a critical point so right are those who shout slogans that we have no country B!

Neither we do have clean water, no fresh air, no clean country, and we want to eat pure food.

Well people, to paraphrase Delic, 'Oh, is it possible ...' How? How will this affect our children, our grandchildren?

Greenpeace has tested the Oetztaler Alps fish that swim in the clear and thought-clear waters of the Alps at 2800 m altitude. Findings were stunned: the fish were literally poisoned by bromine compounds derived from flame retardants, phthalate-wax softener and chlorine, toxaphene, PCBs, and so long ago banned DDT. The concentration of toxins in fish ranged up to 911 micrograms per kg of fat tissue...

Please do not eat alpine trout!

Comment by Mr. Manfred Krautter, Greenpeace expert in chemistry: "Chemistry is out of control, it is endangering the entire continent to the highest mountain peaks. Effect of the so-called. 'global distillation' of the toxic substances that are released into the atmosphere as the smokes, above the cold part of the Globe such as the Alps or the Poles moisture is freezing into snow and in the form of snow falls back to the ground.

Tests revealed that the wild animals and the population, for example, Inuit (the tests were conducted on them) are highly poisoned!
    

The interaction of chemicals with our bodies and our health, chemicals that surround us are we aware of that fact or not, wanted we to be dipped into chemicals or not, we can not choose others, our chemical background is always present.

Unfortunately, pollution is cumulative, accumulate in fat tissue, breast feeding mothers transmit it to children ...

 Yes, we are 48th in world rankings in the environment protection, we truly deserved it, accompanied by the countries that do not care for the environment, taking it for granted. Yes, we have no money, but do others have it much more - when exactly those who are the wealthiest in the ranking occupied last places on the list ... We must get serious, we must get responsible, because as the First Nations of America say: This land we have not received as a the gift, we borrowed it from our fathers and mothers to leave it to our children.

Fine heritage we are leaving to them!

All our errors they will be forced to correct, because they will feel them the toughest.