Hey all.
A few days ago, a friend of mine here on the West coast told me about this HUGE mass of floating garbage somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Ok, garbage, old news, not too shocking. But when he told me how large it was, I couldn’t believe it. I had to look it up.
The very first link that popped up gave me some really startling info. ( http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Ocean/Moore-Trashed-PacificNov03.htm ) If their guesstimate is correct, the floating land mass is about the size of Texas!! Ugh!!
Why am I talking about this? Well, not too long ago, Jason and I were talking about how much “Go Green” material was cropping up here in the Bay Area. Then a few days ago, the Bay Area experienced their own oil spill. Theresa and I talked about Al Gore’s Nobel Prize win. And I think Tabitha told me that the amount (and therefore smell) of garbage up in NYC was worse than she had ever seen. So there’s been a lot of “talk” amongst us, but no action, sad to say.
So now what? We’ve got this new land mass popping up and it’s getting larger. Instead of finding the lost city of Atlantis, we have built our own floating land mass, Trashlantis. Just how much more can this planet take? What can be done? Or better question, when do we start getting active and try out the options that are already available but not chosen?
I’m not pointing any fingers. You all know just how lazy I am, so I’m as guilty as every one else. I’m just not sure where or how to begin.
(Bottle caps and other plastic objects are visible inside the decomposed carcass of this Laysan albatross on Kure Atoll, which lies in a remote and virtually uninhabited region of the North Pacific. The bird probably mistook the plastics for food and ingested them while foraging for prey.)
