Without reading or any former knowledge…capitalism?
The key culprits: two-thirds of the phosphate that ends up in the lough originates from slurry and other run-off from surrounding farmland, while 24 percent comes from human sewage discharged into the lough’s catchment area. Other factors, including industrial sand extraction, may also be accelerating the eutrophication (nutrient-loading) process that has allowed the algae to flourish.
One study suggested that climate change may, additionally, be a contributing factor.
So capitalism and, additionally, capitalism.
You’re not wrong in this instance, but I will point out that Lake Karachay and what used to be the Aral Sea exist. I think we just suck as a species and probably deserve what’s coming to us in the next few decades/centuries, regardless of what economic system we wreck the earth with.
Yep.