[1] In July of 1997 CTV News aired a story about Tirupur, which has 700 dye plants and no pollution controls. Rivers in the area are colored, ground water is polluted 100 meters below the surface and drinking water has to be piped in from a long distance away.
Growing a Paradox, Business Standard, July 31/96, p 22.
Farmers move to stop water supply to units, The Hindu, Feb 26/97, p 19.
High court orders closure of 168 dying units, The Hindu, Mar 11/97, p 4.
[2] Toronto Star, p A12, Sun Jan 4/98 "where worn-out ships go to die, by Will England and Gary Cohn.
[3] Numbers on oil spills are available on the US Coast Guard website. The numbers quoted are from the table "Volume of spill by source, gallons".
[4] Reuters news story, "Greenpeace calls for ban on toxic ship paints", Sept 6, 2000. See also Reuters, Nov 3/98, "Marine life dying from boat paint pollution.".
[5] Reuters news story, Nov 21/00, Belching smoke from European ships is becoming Europe's biggest source of acid rain" based on a report by a consultant to the European Commission.
[6] Sea lamprey, ruffe, round goby, zebra mussel, spiny water flea and other invaders are the subject of numerous pamphlets produced by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, and other official bodies.
[7] Mittelstaedt Martin, "Asexual Flea threatens Great Lakes", The Globe and Mail, Nov 22/99, p 3.
[8] Harvard Working Group on New and Resurgent Diseases "Globalization, development and the spread of disease", The Case Against the Global Economy, p 165.
[9] McConnaughey, Janet (Associated Press) "A new battle of New Orleans", Toronto Star, May 31/97, p B6.
[10] McInnes, Douglas, The plight of the bumblebee, Popular Science, Nov/97.
[11] Research Digest: snake plague, The Globe and Mail, Mar 1/97, p D6. ] Complete with coiled suspension, The Globe and Mail, June 12/90, p A22.
[12] Harvard Working Group on New and Resurgent Diseases, Globalization, Development and the Spread of Disease, included in Mander, 1996, The Case Against the Global Economy, p 165. ] see also Garrett, pp 563-66.
[13] The probability of a global plague is the theme of The Coming Plague by Lawrie Garrett and Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1994. I first heard of it in 1965 when, as education reporter for The Kingston Whig Standard I interviewed a medical researcher at Queens University in Kingston, Ont.
[14] New York Times, May 26/91, quoted in Global Dreams.
[15] The flu scare in Hong Kong is described in the article The Flu Hunters by Eric Larson in the Canadian issue of Time magazine, Feb 23/98.
[16] Garrett, p 157 - 158.
[17] Garrett, pp 53-60.
[18] Garrett, pp 598.
[19] Discover Magazine, Aug/00, lists some meteorite impacts on page 59. This article suggests that, since the beginning of time, the Earth has had at least 200 "major" impacts, each of which left a crater more than 600 miles wide.
[20] The discovery of caldera volcanoes and the threat of Yellowstone Park were the subject of a documentary film, "Supervolcanos" shown on several times on The Discovery Channel in February of 2001. Most of the geologists and geneticists who appeared on the show were professors from the University of Utah. According to the US Geological Survey's volcano hazards website Mount St. Helens produced about 0.25 cubic kilometers of ash, the last eruption of Long Valley produced about 600 and the last eruption of Yellowstone produced about 2,000 cubic kilometers of ash.
[21] Seguin, Rheal "75,000 face fourth week without power", The Globe and Mail, Jan 26/98, Metro edition, p A6.