Professor Thomas Dilorenzo of Loyola University of Maryland writes about the way that socialism destroyed the environment of the old Soviet Bloc:
The world learned that the socialist countries dumped untreated sewage into their rivers, streams, and lakes for decades; the Volga River in Russia was so polluted that boat were equipped with signs warning against throwing cigarettes in the water for fear the chemical-laden water would catch fire; factories had no pollution controls whatsoever; massive fish kills were routine; and the Polish Academy of Sciences reported that by the early 1990s one-third of the Polish people lived in areas of “ecological disaster.”
Dilorenzo recounts these facts in light of the current environmental devastation currently on display at the Olympics in Brazil:
* Triathletes have been told not to put their heads under water; bacteria and virus levels in Guanabara Bay, where the triathlon will take place, are 1.7 million times higher than health-hazard levels in the U.S. and Europe.
* Rubbish in some of the bays is so thick that you cannot see the water and rats live on top of the floating rubbish. A floating corpse and a severed arm were recently spotted floating in Guanabara Bay.
Nearby, Venezuela suffers from massive deforestation and its Lake Maracaibo is heavily polluted with 10,000 gallons of raw sewage per second.
“Socialism is always and everywhere an economic and environmental disaster.”
