This kind of deframes the reality of international over-fishing and dumping of toxic waste in Somalia: According to Nick Nuttall of the United Nations Environm

This kind of deframes the reality of international over-fishing and dumping of toxic waste in Somalia: According to Nick Nuttall of the United Nations Environmental Programme, "Somalia has been used as a dumping ground for hazardous waste starting in the early 1990s, and continuing through the civil war there," and "European companies found it to be very cheap to get rid of the waste, costing as little as $2.50 a tonne, where waste disposal costs in Europe are something like $1000 a tonne." If my family started getting radiation sickness, that would add quite a bit of emotional justification for piracy... Src: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy_in_Somalia#Sovereignty_and_environmental_protection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy_in_Somalia#Sovereignty_a...