(I apologize if this has already been posted here. I searched and found nadda.)
We are truly. F*cked. I wrote a post just over a year ago, and posted it here on DailyKos.
She's dead! Wrapped in Plastic! My last thought on that post:
Skeletal remains of birds have been discovered with their stomach contents still intact; lids, caps and other assorted plastic manmade flotsam.
It has now entered the food chain, and now its also in you.
In our haste to be so very modern, and to have our so very convenient lifestyles, we forgot one basic simple rule that is pertinent to everything in the Universe.
Nothing ever truly disappears. It only changes form.
crossposted on A Creative Revolution With a different title, and some additions here .
The eastern Garbage patch. Bigger than the size of Texas. A Leviathan, with no head, and no tail. An endless sea of trash out in the pacific.
When I tell people about it, they look at me kind of puzzled like, and ask....."Well why don't they just send some boats out to clean it up?" Another question: "Well, if it's that big, why aren't there photos of it?"
The reasons, it can't just be scooped up or photographed, are worse than you can imagine.
For years we’ve been reading about a patch of garbage the size of Texas floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, ingeniously dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Basically, any trash that gets dumped in the water rides the currents to this one spot and joins an ever-increasing flotilla of crap. For all the breathless accounts of the mess and its impact on the area’s sealife, however, no one seemed to have a picture of the buildup.
In order to sate our own curiosity, VBS joined the crew of a research vessel studying the trash and sailed out into one of the most remote spots of open water in the world, the North Pacific Gyre, in search of this mythical garbage island. What we discovered once we got there was an ecological disaster beyond any of our expectations and possibly the single worst thing human beings have done to the planet and ourselves. Hope you’re into cancer and sex-reversal!
The sea IS plastic. And so are we.
The rest of the series here: Toxic- Garbage Island (The embeds from the site don't work here, and there is only the first episode on Youtube.)
