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Plastic Ocean
June 6, 2007I read this article about an area in the ocean, twice the size of Texas, that is filling up with plastic.
A vast swath of the Pacific, twice the size of Texas, is full of a plastic stew that is entering the food chain. Scientists say these toxins are causing obesity, infertility…and worse.
It's an alarmist article, and I'm not worried about it for two reasons:
- It coincides with fears that we are running out of petroleum, a finite resource that is also an ingredient of plastic. We may run out of raw material to make the thing tat is slowly killing us;
- George Carlin speculated that human beings arose because the earth needed their ability to make plastic, and once getting it, the earth will eliminate human beings (ironically, using the same plastic they generated).
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