Sometimes, one needs to be shocked into action. We all know that plastic is a major environmental issue - plastic bags and bottles, etc.
When I first heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, I realized that nature has a way of making sure you cannot ignore the consequences of your actions. In an amazing and visceral way, the ocean is aggregating our plastic waste and making it impossible for us to ignore the environmental impact of our plastic use on the oceans.
Currently, over 700,000 square kms are affected.
Charles Moore, who helped publicize the garbage ocean, wrote, "As I gazed from the deck at the surface of what ought to have been a pristine ocean, I was confronted, as far as the eye could see, with the sight of plastic. It seemed unbelievable, but I never found a clear spot. In the week it took to cross the subtropical high, no matter what time of day I looked, plastic debris was floating everywhere: bottles, bottle caps, wrappers, fragments."
How terribly sad.
How terribly sad.
