In summer 2023 a huge blue green algae bloom appeared on Lough Neagh and turned 392 square kilometres of water into a toxic green soup. The question is, why did it happen? The truth goes right back to the 1950s.
i warned you about the separation of town and country bro! i told you dog
Unsurprisingly, the english are again (partially) to blame here
. But kind of a sombre end-note, 40 years until the water would be normal again if all excess nutrient flow would stop today. It really puts the disaster of the incentives set by capitalism into perspective.