Yes plastic is nice and handy, but it's the accumulative effect plastic will have on this earth. I shop with a cloth bag myself.
but it's YOUR choice. if somebody passes legislation that bans cloth bags as a health risk, will you switch to the "safer" paper sacks because they demand it? but then, what about the trees? now you must buy a $50 steel mesh bag every time you buy anything, and return them for a $20 deposit so they can be sanitized in an autoclave and be re-used?
Fine there may be documents that create more of a shock value by manipulating and editing video. Doesn't mean the lie or half truth can't become the truth in some situations. Just cause it is not effecting you at the moment, doesn't mean it's not happening.
the entire eco-movement is based on outright lies crafted "for your own good" like:
Silent Spring. the book that started it all, 100% fiction disguised as real science. it took 20 years before that shit was discredited but it's still part of the syllabus today.
The Population Bomb: more pure fiction,, the author invented every single datapoint, and still didnt get the math right. according to this turd, the earth now has 250 billion people and we have to eat babies to stay alive.
Earth In The Balance: al gore before he became a movie star. the earth will be doomed if we dont ban the internal combustion engine within 10 years... 20 years ago.
and many many more.
I agree. But way too much plastic is ending up in our landfills and in our oceans. And the problem may not be big enough to actually sound any alarms at the moment. To be honest I think the alarms are sounding loud. Someone with a half of a brain can realize that broken down microplastic in the ocean can't be good. The sad thing we don't really have a alternative to plastic.
yes we do. corn starch based plastics or good old fashioned cellophane, which is made from cellulose (the main ingredient in hemp stalks) but sadly these cost more, and dont use the cheap disposable crap left over from refining oil for industrial feedstocks.
Yeah I am the same minus the gold panning. I want to go gold panning. Love watching gold rush.
you can gold pan anyplace in america, but your odds are low if you dont know where to look or how to find the gold. plus its mostly gonna be flake and dust, not fat nuggets. what state you in?
I have to disagree. The name "Island" I think is a term of scale and may not be visible from a video stand point. But I am sure if you go out in that area in person you might have a different outlook. I don't understand if a decent amount of our garbage ends up in the ocean, then why would it be so unrealistic we have floating plastic and garbage flowing in our oceans circular cycle? Can you find a scientist that is in that field that says different?
most people who sail through it dont even realize it's there. almost all of the big stuff gets kicked out and winds up making landfall. the stuff captain planet was whinging on was tiny flakes of plastic drifting between thermal layers, its not even on the surface where sunlight breaks it down into component molecules, or where the wind can send it to shore. youll find more trash on a beach than you will in any square mile of the ocean. even a clean beach.
All that being said, at the end of the day nothing will be done. People will continue to litter and abuse the earth and there is nothing we can do about it. 30-40 years from now our oceans will be so toxic we can't eat the fish, probably some species will be extinct. Bummer
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