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Capt. Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation first discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- an endless floating waste of plastic trash. Now he's drawing attention to the growing, choking problem of plastic debris in our seas.

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libertarianriots : LVL 23: VP 3.2: said:

libertarianriots

27 votes NegativePositive

266 days 11 hours ago...

combine this and overfishing and you`ve got a mass extinction on your hands. dead ocean=dead land. all for the sake of getting women out of the kitchen earlier. damn feminists, its all your fault.

stbasdf : LVL 38: VP 4.6: said:

stbasdf

3 votes NegativePositive

266 days 10 hours ago...

i`ve always wondered about disposable packaging. it seems so wasteful to me. every candy wrapper, cereal box, meat tray, bottle, snack box, it just preserves a little bit of food and then all of it gets thrown away. before packaging existed ppl used durable resuable containers. and not only are there the immediate packaging outside of perishables, but what about the plastic bags we use to carry it home, or the paper boxes with plastic ties and tape to move it from the factory to the distributer, and then the distributer to the retailer? if the materials could be switched to something reusable or recyclable, it would reduce the amount of garbage.

also, i`ve seen in other countries where you have to go to the garbage man instead of the garbage man going to you. they drive down the street and you have to come out and hand them the garbage. you also have to separate all your garbage into organics, glass, paper, and plastics. sometimes the garbage man will check your bags and if he finds they`re not sorted they can ticket you. i don`t think a system like that would ever work in the US. i don`t know how effective that system is with reducing garbage or improving recycling either.

exploder : LVL 49: VP 5: said:

exploder

4 votes NegativePositive

266 days 9 hours ago...

Fuck this is sad. One of those things that makes me despair that we are just totally fucked.

selfworm : LVL 43: VP 5: said:

selfworm

1 votes NegativePositive

266 days 7 hours ago...

Well this was a "waste" of my time.

Just kidding, my time is worthless. I hope that I can find it somewhere in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

delt_osvp : LVL 46: VP 5: said:

delt_osvp

-3 votes NegativePositive

265 days 20 hours ago...

just bring the birds over and sell em as piñatas

SvenGB : LVL 19: VP 2.8: said:

SvenGB

0 votes NegativePositive

265 days 16 hours ago...

^^ as you could see there wasnt much left of the bird when they took the pic. and i wouldnt want what is inside them.


it is becoming more of a harsh reality when you keep watching this stuff and know that we are all fucking up the world. but i guess becuase it is out of sight. it is out of mind and if you cant see it it doesnt exsist...

i guess that is the great thing about the new world is that though the planet is big media and media shearing make it small and we get to see the ramifacations of what we do here some where eals.

maxgnr : LVL 45: VP 5: said:

maxgnr

-4 votes NegativePositive

265 days 15 hours ago...

More reasons not to have children, why let them live in this fucked up world.

EckJerome : LVL 40: VP 4.8: said:

EckJerome

-7 votes NegativePositive

265 days 9 hours ago...

Fuck all you pessimists!!

Yeah, we got problems in this world. NO SHIT, SHERLOCK!!! But it seems all you guys ever do is sit around listening to all the crap that is wrong with the world and NEVER paying attention to that which is wonderful and magnificent. Turn off your damn computers and TV`s for a while, get off your fucking asses, and check out some of the world and nature for yourselves. There`s a of lot of it out there that is doing just fine!!

You don`t want to have children? Fine!! We don`t need you to be passing on your fucked up versions of reality onto everyone else...Hollywood and Al Gore do plenty of that all by themselves. Me? I`ve only been blessed with one child to teach what a beautiful planet we live on, despite the ongoing problems that we`ve always had to deal with.

Kugh : LVL 43: VP 5: said:

Kugh

6 votes NegativePositive

262 days 16 hours ago...

holy shit at the turtle at 3:45

M3t4lBa5si5t : LVL 40: VP 4.8: said:

M3t4lBa5si5t

1 votes NegativePositive

262 days 16 hours ago...

The saddest part is nothing will be done about this until it begins to threaten OUR lives. That`s the way it goes with everything. We need to change the way we live now and quit destroying our home.

Islamisalie : LVL 26: VP 3.5: said:

Islamisalie

0 votes NegativePositive

262 days 15 hours ago...

For a long time I lived in a place where there was NO garbage pickup. What did I do? I burned my trash. Then I used the ashes as fertilizer for my garden. It worked really well.

Now I live in a place where you cannot burn your trash, and let me tell you...I never realized how much trash people actually produce until I had to go down to the city dump and talk to some people. It really amazes me.

krazhnburn : LVL 18: VP 2.7: said:

krazhnburn

1 votes NegativePositive

262 days 15 hours ago...

were doomed!!

Enigma90 : LVL 10: VP 1.9: said:

Enigma90

0 votes NegativePositive

262 days 14 hours ago...

PLASTIC BAG IN THE SEA!
-Gojira, Toxic Garbage Island.

kilopop19 : LVL 37: VP 4.5: said:

kilopop19

2 votes NegativePositive

262 days 12 hours ago...

then what do we use instead of plastic?!

Nose Nuggets : LVL 6: VP 1.5: said:

Nose Nuggets

0 votes NegativePositive

262 days 11 hours ago...

damn, if there is one thing we can do really, relally well. its fuck outselves up.

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