Freight Traffic is a Catastrophe in Waiting — Most of the Transportation Infrastructure of the United States Wasn’t Built for Today’s Traffic!   Most roads and bridges were not built for 18 wheeler trucks! Most Rails where not built for 1-3mile long trains.      Most ports were not designed ocean container ships a thousand feet long!    Last years’ freight derailment in East Palestine hazardous waste spill, that has yet to be cleaned up, was a warning sign of the future.

East Palestine Under Mandatory Evacuation, Possible Explosion Warning After Toxic Train Derailment

Due Capitalism’s Policy of Differed Maintenance: (The practice of postponing maintenance activities such as repairs on both real property (i.e. infrastructure) and personal property (i.e. machinery) in order to save costs, meet budget funding levels, or realign available budget monies. The failure to perform needed repairs could lead to asset deterioration and ultimately asset impairment. Generally, a policy of continued deferred maintenance may result in higher costs, asset failure, and in some cases, health and safety implications.) has left us with an unfractured in dire need of repair.

Understaffing has also added to the current state of affairs!

This Weeks Cargo Ship Crash in Baltimore is new example of what is to come.:The Dali is a Big Ship, But Not the BiggestThe Ship (The Dali) That Crashed Into he Baltimore Bridge Carried 764 Tons Of Hazardous Material, and Some Containers Have Been Breached, NTSB Says

  • At least 56 containers of hazmat goods were on board the Dali when it crashed, the NTSB said.
  • Some of the containers were “significantly breached” and some are in the water, officials said.
  • The 984-foot ship is still caught under the debris of Baltimore’s biggest bridge, which collapsed on Tuesday

These Ships Threaten the Entire Planet!:

From: Shipping Hazmat Cargo in Ocean Containers:  The phrase can conjure images of skull & crossbones stickers on steel drums with contents that can melt through just about anything. But when it comes to shipping, even some common items in your house are considered hazmat – like paint, perfume, deodorant, glue, and glass cleaners. From manufactures to consumers, we’re dependent on hazmat products, which are categorized based on the nature of the hazard they pose, like flammables, explosives, and poisons.     In the US alone, more than 3 billion tons of hazmat cargo are shipped each year. A lot of these products wind up on container ships.    This article provides background on shipping hazmat cargo in ocean containers. The phrase can conjure images of skull & crossbones stickers on steel drums with contents that can melt through just about anything. But when it comes to shipping, even some common items in your house are considered hazmat – like paint, perfume, deodorant, glue, and glass cleaners.    From manufactures to consumers, we’re dependent on hazmat products, which are categorized based on the nature of the hazard they pose, like flammables, explosives, and poisons.   In the US alone, more than 3 billion tons of hazmat cargo are shipped each year. A lot of these products wind up on container ships. This article provides background on shipping hazmat cargo in ocean containers. .

The 1%’s priorities is to spend $Trillions on war, and $Billions on the Palestinian Genocide, but not the $Trillions needed to repair the infrastructure, health,welfare, and right to a livable planet! 

It is clear that our lives are at stake! We need new priorities!

 In the present world, the rights of the capitalists to make a profit are in direct conflict with our basic right to life. In this sense, the capitalist system has become a threat to humanity.

Jefferson’s words, from the Declaration of Independence, that human rights are unalienable, mean that these rights can never be superseded. At all points of conflict the rights of humanity to survive must supersede the right of the few to make a profit. The right to a safe environment is an unalienable human right!

Since environmental illness and destruction are a global concern, it requires all of humanity to act collectively, in our overall interests for our survival as a species, to correct the problem and to remove the obstacle of capitalism. It requires a society where humanity has social, economic, and political control over the entire environment. Such a society, a socialist society, is needed to ensure that all decisions affecting the environment are under the democratic control of humankind so that the production of goods will be done for the needs and survival of humanity instead of the production and the destruction of humanity and other species for profit.

With common ownership of the means of production, and common control and protection of all property and wealth, science and society will be in harmony with the ecosystem and humanity’s future.

With these goals we can begin to build a more effective environmental movement. As we continue to organize against capitalism and its destructive course, we can and will transform the world!