Have you noticed, like I have, that the most useful things that humans produce: plastic, oil, cars, airplanes, are the things that are the most destructive to the planet? It’s no wonder that when World War III happens it won’t be over politics, or who worships who, it’s going to be over the control of resources.
We dump so much trash into the rivers and oceans it’s no wonder that it’s ended up back in the food chain. Yep, somewhere in the food you ate today was plastic. Get used to it! I don’t like how the video says that plasitc in the ocean food chain “might” be harmful. Of course it is! Plastic is not a naturally occuring element, and anything not natural is harmful.
When my brother and I go down to enjoy some time at the beach, we always bring (Heaven help us) a plastic trash bag to first spend some time cleaning up. Sometimes we fill the bags pretty fast, other times we don’t fill them completely, but we’ve never not filled them at least half way. Is what we’re doing helping at all? Well, at least that bag full won’t end up in the ocean that day. And for every bag we pick up, three more are probably going in.
It is disgusting to think how much trash is in the oceans breaking up that pristine environment. But humans generate SO MUCH trash that I’m surprised that we haven’t just loaded up cargo ship containers of it and dropped them to the bottom of the seas. Please don’t get any ideas!! We could also just rocket it all to the sun.
Nobody wants to really invest in recycling since it is so labor intensive and barely profitable, so why not hire the government to do it. They are great at losing money!
I think that until recycling becomes more profitable, or industry finds better alternatives to plastic, the Earth is screwed.
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