PLSC204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Chesapeake Bay, Cuyahoga River, Southern California
17 Feb 2019
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The chesapeake bay is like the canary in the coal mine. Largest estuary in the country sixth of the east coast: average depth is 21 ft, making the bay an ecological hothouse i. Productive however also vulnerable due to size of drainage basin: one of chesapeake bay"s problems are overfishing resources, especially crabs i. Dead zones have been becoming more common world wide one in the gulf of mexico the size of the state of massachusetts: pollution is not just creating dead zones, it"s playing havoc with human health and recreation. i. Everyday people are getting sick touching water: not just politicians fault, we elect and re-elect politicians, us calls for help for the environment, four decades ago, the country was rocked by environmental disasters i. ii. iii. iv. v. Cuyahoga river burned with flames eight stories high. Santa barbara oil spill in 1969 that virtually closed all beaches in southern ca.
