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Great Pacific Garbage Patch 3939 Responses
Last post: 1 month ago | Thread started: Jan 27, 12, 10:23 a.m.
- lowimpakt
"On Midway Atoll, a remote cluster of islands more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent, the detritus of our mass consumption surfaces in an astonishing place: inside the stomachs of thousands of dead baby albatrosses. The nesting chicks are fed lethal quantities of plastic by their parents, who mistake the floating trash for food as they forage over the vast polluted Pacific Ocean.
For me, kneeling over their carcasses is like looking into a macabre mirror. These birds reflect back an appallingly emblematic result of the collective trance of our consumerism and runaway industrial growth. Like the albatross, we first-world humans find ourselves lacking the ability to discern anymore what is nourishing from what is toxic to our lives and our spirits. Choked to death on our waste, the mythical albatross calls upon us to recognize that our greatest challenge lies not out there, but in here."
http://www.chrisjordan.com/galle…
- Dog-earJan 27, 12, 10:29 a.m. – Permalink
- lowimpakt
"On Midway Atoll, a remote cluster of islands more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent, the detritus of our mass consumption surfaces in an astonishing place: inside the stomachs of thousands of dead baby albatrosses. The nesting chicks are fed lethal quantities of plastic by their parents, who mistake the floating trash for food as they forage over the vast polluted Pacific Ocean.
For me, kneeling over their carcasses is like looking into a macabre mirror. These birds reflect back an appallingly emblematic result of the collective trance of our consumerism and runaway industrial growth. Like the albatross, we first-world humans find ourselves lacking the ability to discern anymore what is nourishing from what is toxic to our lives and our spirits. Choked to death on our waste, the mythical albatross calls upon us to recognize that our greatest challenge lies not out there, but in here."http://www.chrisjordan.com/galle…
- Dog-earJan 27, 12, 10:29 a.m. – Permalink
- detritus
As much as I might be disgusted by the ideas of oceanic rubbish gyres, the image you've posted (and, to a degree, the ones in the article) are NOT representative of the reality.
That kind of reality would be relatively easily to deal with - get some fishing boats out, scoop it all up - hey presto.
Sadly, the bulk of pastic in these gyres isatomised into so many tiny particulate pieces that the horrorifying reality is that we can do fuck all to upt the genie back in the bottle.
- Dog-earJan 27, 12, 10:30 a.m. – Permalink
- johnny_wobble
We can put 13000 Americans on it and apply for statehood.
- Dog-earJan 27, 12, 10:45 a.m. – Permalink
- detritus
Looking on the positive side - when creatures evolve to incorporate plastics into their body, we might see a whole new flourishing divergence in life.
They might out-compete us yet - we might find ourselves waging war against chitinplastic composite humungofish, bearing thin poly veil sales which they can use to fly high and swoop down, ripping us haples fleshies asunder.
Face it, we're fucked whatever happens.
- Dog-earJan 27, 12, 11:56 a.m. – Permalink
- Fax_Benson
It's incredible just how much junk these birds can consume. Those adolescent albatross probably died from lack of nutrients in their diet, rather than too many lighters (which I suppose is the same thing). The parents probably thought; why bother fishing - junior seems to love this shiny plastic stuff that just floats about.
- Dog-earJan 27, 12, 12:09 p.m. – Permalink
- mikotondria3
Similarly,
- Dog-earJan 27, 12, 12:29 p.m. – Permalink
- lowimpakt
Microscopic plastic debris from washing clothes is accumulating in the marine environment and could be entering the food chain, a study has warned.
Researchers traced the "microplastic" back to synthetic clothes, which released up to 1,900 tiny fibres per garment every time they were washed.
Earlier research showed plastic smaller than 1mm were being eaten by animals and getting into the food chain.
The findings appeared in the journal Environmental Science and Technology.
- Dog-earJan 27, 12, 11:58 p.m. – Permalink
