I rarely drop so many posts in the morning, and I have several more sitting in draft, as well as some other pieces of interest saved to Pocket, but I feel rather strongly on this one. Kudos to typically hyper – Warmist Chris Mooney for leaving “climate change” out of the story (others, who will remain linkless, didn’t)
(Washington Post) A major new study of the world’s oceans has reached a shocking conclusion: Thanks to humans, there are now over 5 trillion pieces of plastic, weighing more than 250,000 tons, floating in water around the world.
With a global population of about 7.2 billion, that’s nearly 700 pieces per person.
I’d highly recommend reading the entire article, as well as a few others via Memeorandum. I can’t stress enough the damage that all that plastic can do, and is doing, to our oceans. I may not be a believer in human caused climate change, but true environmentalism is very important to me.
And, yes, I buy plastic. I reuse and recycle. I do my damned best to not litter. But I have to wonder what happens after I have my plastics picked up in the recycling bin. I pledge to do better.
Regardless of your beliefs, we should be better stewards of the planet. On this issue I have no problem being preachy.
AJ Strata makes a good point
It is disgusting how we REALLY pollute our world (as opposed the nutty “CO2 Is Poison!†meme we get from the Green Blob).
My view, we should take the IPCC funds and do something tangible with them (and reduce the CO2 and heat from all the hot air that body produces in the process).
Yup.
