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from:msnbc.comMost of the trash in a mass of garbage-littered water, known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, has broken into bits, and scientists want to know whether it's sickening or killing the fish, plankton and birds that ingest it.
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Yes, this is a disgusting problem. Why doesn't someone - like Uncle Al Gore - bring this subject to the UN Oceanographic Section to work out some sort of arrangement to clean it up, if nothing else happens. They could make a yearly schedule for each country that has a fishing fleet, and thats many, in the Pacific to take turns going to this site say three times in a year and catch and haul it back to their countrie for disposal. It sounds like the only way it can be done, and the cost can be paid by the UN itself as a Humanitarian Effort in general. I know this will never happen, but it sure sounds nice. Figure the idea of China or N.Korea or Russia or Philippines or New Zealand sending one ship, three times a year to collect the worlds plastic trash for disposal the right way. Uncle Al is wrong in his Climate topic - Mother Nature and Mother Earth are re-inventing the planet with volcanic eruptions and tectonic plate shifts and underwater volcano eruptions HEATING the oceans water (El Nino) and the refraction of heat back into the atmophere from the lack of trees and green spaces for black asphalt and glass hi-rises built by MILLIONAIRES that say one thing and do another for MONEY!!
thank you from another vet.finally a simple and logical solution to a problem of such mignitude.you are correct about nothing getting done.seems these brainiacs love to talk about it(i think they like to listen to themselves while bathing in the limelite) more than do something about it.as i understand it ,the patch is also very deep.you seem pretty knowledgeable with an easy way with words.ever think of emailing good ole AL GORE and tell him your idea? i'm also a vet-1963-1967.
When plastics and other material that doesn't break down and discarded in nature, that is when people had turned plain stupid. How long have humans walked this earth? And when did this polution really start to hurt, after the industrial revolution, which never should've taken place. It just shows how STUPID and LAZY humans have become. How long ago was the industrial revolution, 18th and 19 century? 200 years at most, and where will we be in another 100 or 200 years?
Good idea a couple of large trawlers can use ,say nets that are about to be replaced and start hualing .
Send Godzilla in to battle the monster, he can defeat it!
ANY effort to start cleaning it up is a good effort. Start small and keep at it. I don't understand why NO ONE is doing anything about this. We should all be very ashamed of this disgusting situation !
I keep wondering why all these great scientist keep coming up with brainless reasons for all the worlds problems. Ships have dumped trash a sea for centuries. What they are now finding in the middle of the ocean is the accumulation of plastic and other floating trash. The passenger and cargo ships need to stop their dumping at sea, or the problem will never end.
As long as you are there take nets and a barge and clean it up. Don't just take samples.
Where the oceans go, so does the earth.....I'm not an environmentlist by far but decades of ranching has taught me that if my children still want to use my land its up to me to take care of it under my watch, like my father did for me. I have a feeling their is a reason the oceans cover 2/3rd of the earth and when they get screwed up wait and see what happens. My generation worried about nuclear war and its effects, while the whole time we are killing ourselfs without thinking.
OK - let's see if I have this right: they go out, find the trash, examine it, take samples, announce that it may be poisoning various & sundry creatures & drive away, leaving it all there -- how useful!
MPRW, Well, you could go clean it up! Maybe we could have a vacation at sea where we help clean up the garbage. I think it would be kind of like an adventure where you also help out the envirenment...
A good job for unemployed Americans - give them a raft and a dipping net, and pay them by the tonne.
To the vet that commented,i was in the AF-1963-1967.brothers till we pass on.i lost good friends cause of that war and i can tell you that one might not have been straight but that didn't stop him from dying for our and everyones freedom and EQUALITY!!!!!!!.Glad to hear from you. i pray for our troops now as they fight and lose their lives for what i believe to be a businessmans war.were just lucky our social security is still in tact.