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This is extremely unsettling and sad. The question is, is there anything we can do both on micro and macro level?
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As an individual, what are the things we could do (other than using less plastic), so we don't contribute to this mess?
The US, and other nations, have nuclear powered ships for war. Why not use these ships for peace, and try cleaning the ocean? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Pacific_Gyre http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/oceans/...
because nuclear god its like you dont even understand clean energy
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because nuclear god its like you dont even understand clean energy
I actually do understand clean energy, and these nuclear powered vessels to which I refer have already been built and fitted. What better use for them than to clean our oceans?
I saw some people comment on a thread similar to this yesterday called, "Sailor says pacific is lifeless form Japan onwards for 3k Miles". I am guessing it is the same gentleman in this article and this is the full article. Some comments there were skeptical and suggested they had been at sea and hadn't caught anything or had not "seen any whales or dolphins". Let me say that there are countless counter arguments but…
Even an entire human lifetime is an eyeblink in the ebb and flow of the ocean environment. No matter what experience a person has, his own observations mean nothing, or rather, are insufficient to assign any causality other than natural variability. Most of the species that have ever lived in the oceans (or anywhere else on the planet) are now extinct, and this happened long before humans had any influence.
This would be an accurate statement, but the last hundred years have been particularly relevant as human activities have exponentially soared. You are hiding your head in the dirt if you think that our level of influence is insignificant over the course of a lifetime.
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Noticed right after I posted. Gave it an upvote
Cool. Suggest we delete the submission and this discussion, although if you don't, it doesn't matter. I'm just a bit obsessive about tidiness. Born from working on the C2 wiki, I guess. Edit: Although I see now that this submission has a few upvotes, so maybe we'd better not delete it.