<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Homemade garbage barge about to make landfall in Hawaii]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by stevenearlsalmony http://www.grist.org/article/junk-raft-journey/ Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:37:55 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/junk-raft-journey/1 Another example of the global economy....

....threatening Earth's ecology.

Is the global economy a primary precipitant of worldwide ecological degradation because the distinctly human-driven construction's gigantic size and rampant growth could soon become patently unsustainable in a relatively small, evidently finite and noticeably frangible planetary home such as Earth provides to the family of humanity?

That is to say, could at least one of the causes of life and the Earth, as we know them, "going to hell in a handbasket" be that the global political economy is a human construction that takes its shape as a perpetual motion machine and is operated as a colossal pyramid scheme?  Unfortunately, both the 'machine' and the scheme are unsustainable.

Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population, est. 2001
http://sustainabilitysoutheast.org/index.php



]]> Another example of the global economy....

....threatening Earth's ecology.

Is the global economy a primary precipitant of worldwide ecological degradation because the distinctly human-driven construction's gigantic size and rampant growth could soon become patently unsustainable in a relatively small, evidently finite and noticeably frangible planetary home such as Earth provides to the family of humanity?

That is to say, could at least one of the causes of life and the Earth, as we know them, "going to hell in a handbasket" be that the global political economy is a human construction that takes its shape as a perpetual motion machine and is operated as a colossal pyramid scheme?  Unfortunately, both the 'machine' and the scheme are unsustainable.

Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population, est. 2001
http://sustainabilitysoutheast.org/index.php



]]> Comment #2 by Wolverine http://www.grist.org/article/junk-raft-journey/ Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:42:02 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/junk-raft-journey/2 And An Example Of Our Destructive Society

The fact that there is a garbage patch that is 700,000 km to more than 15 million km in size shows that the entire basis of humans' consumptive/throw away manner of living is dead wrong and must be changed.  Plastic is one of the most evil things ever invented and should be abolished.

]]> And An Example Of Our Destructive Society

The fact that there is a garbage patch that is 700,000 km to more than 15 million km in size shows that the entire basis of humans' consumptive/throw away manner of living is dead wrong and must be changed.  Plastic is one of the most evil things ever invented and should be abolished.

]]> Comment #3 by BlackBear http://www.grist.org/article/junk-raft-journey/ Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:16:54 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/junk-raft-journey/3 Drama

I can't tell whether I want to laugh or cry about this story.

I am apalled at the amount of trash humans produce and the thought of Mtn. Dew bottles being my legacy on earth brings me almost to tears.

At the same time, I am chuckling at the audacity of building a successfully seafaring craft out of actual junk lashed together. "It ain't pretty, it's my boat."

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I can't tell whether I want to laugh or cry about this story.

I am apalled at the amount of trash humans produce and the thought of Mtn. Dew bottles being my legacy on earth brings me almost to tears.

At the same time, I am chuckling at the audacity of building a successfully seafaring craft out of actual junk lashed together. "It ain't pretty, it's my boat."

]]> Comment #4 by ourearthmusic http://www.grist.org/article/junk-raft-journey/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:56:38 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/junk-raft-journey/4 Good job, Junk! Meetup with Roz Savage-ocean rower

Kudos to The Junk for their difficult sail to Hawaii in order to bring attention to the problem of plastic pollution in the ocean.

Also interesting is their meetup mid-sea with Roz Savage, who is currently rowing from San Francisco to Hawaii (raising awareness of marine eco-systems). Roz is nearly to Hawaii after leaving SF in May. They had dinner and exchanged supplies that they were low on. You can read about this historic meetup . IF YOU CAN, PLEASE VOTE FOR ROZ FOR A GRANT FOR HER NON-PROFIT DOCUMENTARY BY 9/1/08 ON THE AMERICAN EXPRESS MEMBER'S PROJECT (http://www.membersproject.com/project/view/GUMBK6). YOU DON'T NEED TO BE AN AMEX CARDHOLDER. THANKS VERY MUCH!

Roz's current row is part one of a three part row to Australia. http://www.rozsavage.com .

]]> Good job, Junk! Meetup with Roz Savage-ocean rower

Kudos to The Junk for their difficult sail to Hawaii in order to bring attention to the problem of plastic pollution in the ocean.

Also interesting is their meetup mid-sea with Roz Savage, who is currently rowing from San Francisco to Hawaii (raising awareness of marine eco-systems). Roz is nearly to Hawaii after leaving SF in May. They had dinner and exchanged supplies that they were low on. You can read about this historic meetup . IF YOU CAN, PLEASE VOTE FOR ROZ FOR A GRANT FOR HER NON-PROFIT DOCUMENTARY BY 9/1/08 ON THE AMERICAN EXPRESS MEMBER'S PROJECT (http://www.membersproject.com/project/view/GUMBK6). YOU DON'T NEED TO BE AN AMEX CARDHOLDER. THANKS VERY MUCH!

Roz's current row is part one of a three part row to Australia. http://www.rozsavage.com .

]]> Comment #5 by stevenearlsalmony http://www.grist.org/article/junk-raft-journey/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:36:56 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/junk-raft-journey/5 It's the ecology (not the economy), stupid!

The time is coming when many people will follow the exemplary behavior of Gristmill Bloggers by speaking out loudly and clearly for something, for anything at all to do with the preservation of life as know it and Earth, even though it is not politically convenient and economically expedient to do so, even though thousands of greedy kings and self-proclaimed masters of the universe eschew such open expressions as well as maintain that "silence is golden."

Soon people will be heard speaking out often in many places for something, for anything at all that does not have to do with the unbridled and soon to become unsustainable growth of the global political economy.

The mass media's silence regarding the threat of rampant economic globalization is deafening. How much longer will it continue?

Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population,
established 2001
http://sustainabilitysoutheast.org/index.php




]]> It's the ecology (not the economy), stupid!

The time is coming when many people will follow the exemplary behavior of Gristmill Bloggers by speaking out loudly and clearly for something, for anything at all to do with the preservation of life as know it and Earth, even though it is not politically convenient and economically expedient to do so, even though thousands of greedy kings and self-proclaimed masters of the universe eschew such open expressions as well as maintain that "silence is golden."

Soon people will be heard speaking out often in many places for something, for anything at all that does not have to do with the unbridled and soon to become unsustainable growth of the global political economy.

The mass media's silence regarding the threat of rampant economic globalization is deafening. How much longer will it continue?

Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population,
established 2001
http://sustainabilitysoutheast.org/index.php




]]> Comment #6 by ourearthmusic http://www.grist.org/article/junk-raft-journey/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:01:09 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/junk-raft-journey/6 ETA for Roz Savage to Hawaii looks like 9/2 or 9/3

Roz will meet up with the "Junk Males" in Honolulu. See
http://www.rozsavage.com/tracking/weather.php

]]> ETA for Roz Savage to Hawaii looks like 9/2 or 9/3

Roz will meet up with the "Junk Males" in Honolulu. See
http://www.rozsavage.com/tracking/weather.php

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