<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for VBS.tv sails out to witness the garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by anotherID http://www.grist.org/article/ready-aim-gyre/ Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:19:20 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/ready-aim-gyre/1 George Carlin

I am with George Carlin on the plastics issue.

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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I am with George Carlin on the plastics issue.

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.

]]> Comment #2 by caniscandida http://www.grist.org/article/ready-aim-gyre/ Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:35:15 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/ready-aim-gyre/2 Anthropocentrism is the enemy

Well put, AnotherID!

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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Well put, AnotherID!

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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