The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Watching the video about our the plastic being drained into the Pacific gyres was awful. It was like hearing about some wild phenomenon on the Earth, which it is, but not in a good way. The carcasses of the sea birds with their rib cages full to the brim of bottle caps was devastating, as well as the giant sea turtle barely living with the plastic band around it's body. If only something as tragic as the plastic could be cleaned as easily as flying over the area with a big net to collect the plastic pieces. There are so many things on this planet to worry about that it gets hard to distinguish what is most important or of higher priority. There are good people around the globe concerned about a great deal of things, and hopefully they will be joined by those that currently choose to live life as though these problems do not exist. The best thing to do at this point seems to be to get a hold on the land waste before it enters the waterways. Cleaning up plastics as much as possible before they drain out to the oceans. I am sure there are many that kill animals while en route to oceans, with as much devastation as there is with ocean birds and animals. It is hard not to feel defeated in the fight against all the bad that is happening. The big solution IS to smarten up and clean up after ourselves, which would hopefully have a rippling effect to stop climate change. If our goal is to get the Earth cleaned up, then success in that should allow everything else to fall into place.

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