Nous avons vraiment intérêt à savourer la beauté des derniers espaces non souillés de la planète.
Ces images qui tournent en boucle sur Internet nous montrent l"un des fleuves les plus sales au monde.
Il s"agirait du fleuve Citarum, situé à l"ouest de l"ile de Java, en Indonésie :
Source : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-460077/Is-worlds-polluted-river.html

Lors de mon dernier voyage en Indes, j"ai ramené le même genre de clichés prises dans les terres.

Croyez-vous que la planète va encore nous supporter très longtemps ?

It was once a gently flowing river, where fishermen cast their nets,
sea birds came to feed and natural beauty left visitors spellbound.
Villagers collected water for their simple homes and rice paddies
thrived on its irrigation channels.
Today, the Citarum is a river in crisis, choked by the domestic waste
of nine million people and thick with the cast-off from hundreds of factories.
So dense is the carpet of refuse that

Their occupants no longer try to fish. It is more profitable to forage
for rubbish they can salvage and trade - plastic bottles, broken chair legs,
rubber gloves - risking disease for one or two pounds a week if they are lucky.
On what was United Nations World Environment Day, the Citarum, near the Indonesian
capital of Jakarta, displayed the shocking abuse that mankind has subjected it to.

Combien de poissons meurent aujourd"hui ?
Combien de personnes vont mourir demain ?

More than 500 factories, many of them producing textiles which require
chemical treatment, line the banks of the 200-mile river, the largest waterway
in West Java, spewing waste into the water.
On top of the chemicals go all the other kinds of human detritus from the factories
and the people who work there. There is no such luxury as a rubbish collection service here.
Nor are there any modern toilet facilities. Everything goes into the river.
The filthy water is sucked into the rice paddies, while families risk their health
by collecting it for drinking, cooking and washing.
Twenty years ago, this was a place of beauty, and the river still served its people well.
As one local man, Arifin, recalled: "Our wives did their washing there and our children swam."

Its demise began with rapid industrialisation during the late 1980s.
The mighty Citarum soon became a garbage bin for the factories.
And the doomsday effect will spread. It is one of two major rivers that feed Lake Saguling,
where the French have built the largest power generator in West Java.
Experts predict that as the river chokes, its volume will decrease and the generator
will not function properly. The area will be plunged into darkness.

But at least the factories will be stilled and their waste will stop flowing.
And perhaps the river will begin to breathe again.

Tout ce que l"on peut faire, c"est continuer, de notre côté,
à ramasser inlassablement les détritus jetés dans la nature..

Ce message a été écrit par : jfreeman.