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Posted by Easy on Sun Feb 8 11:42:10 2009, in response to Re: New Jersey Claims that Reefed Subway Cars Not Living Up to Expectations, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Feb 8 11:14:29 2009. I have no idea either. They are creating a huge reef in the middle of the ocean and I have no clue whether or not this will any chain effect in other places. We humans have a long history of not thinking these things all the way through when we try and manipulate local ecosystems/environments. We're not talking one rail car or a few tires. We're talking over a thousand subway cars.And those tires are a good example. I don't think that tires are used anymore because they do more harm than good. From wiki: This project (Osborne Reef) is not the only one of its nature to fail; Indonesia and Malaysia mounted enormous tire-reef programs in the 1980s and are now seeing the ramifications of the failure of tire reefs, from littered beaches to reef destruction.[4] Jack Sobel, The Ocean Conservancy's director of strategic conservation said in a 2002 interview that "I don't know of any cases where there's been a success with tire reefs." That year, The Ocean Conservancy's International Coastal Cleanup removed 11,956 tires from beaches all over the world.[3] |
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