This is the first episode of 12 from VBS.tv on the vast, Texas-sized stew of plastic and garbage floating in the North Pacific Gyre. They sailed out to see it with their own eyes.
Ready, aim, gyre
VBS.tv sails out to witness the garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean 2
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Posted 2:15 PM on 9 Apr 2008
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anotherID Posted 7:19 am
09 Apr 2008
Plastic is humanity's contribution to Gaia. Well, that and getting at all of her previously sequestered carbon.
Can we please go extinct now? We need a punctuated equilibrium event to help.
Once you remove the anthropocentric nonsense from sustainability, there is freedom.
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caniscandida Posted 5:35 pm
10 Apr 2008
It should be recognized at once that the apparently constant presence of human plastic trash on the surface of the oceans has its most grave immediate effect not on the health of human beings, but on the health of the countless critters who live and feed around there, where the ocean meets the sky. Carl Safina's books offer plenty of examples.
Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.
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