"It as if the ocean itself was dead," [Ivan] Macfadyen said.Humanity has, for ages, operation on the concept that "dilution is the solution for pollution." That worked until it didn't. And then, sometimes, with much gnashing of teeth, primarily from the polluters, things got cleaned up, at least a little.
"We hardly saw any living things. We saw one whale, sort of rolling helplessly on the surface with what looked like a big tumor on its head. It was pretty sickening.
"I've done a lot of miles on the ocean in my life and I'm used to seeing turtles, dolphins, sharks and big flurries of feeding birds. But this time, for 3000 nautical miles there was nothing alive to be seen."
But we never have really learned.
We have shat in the biggest nest that there is.
As a species, we are pretty retarded.
Since I started hearing about the magnitude of the dead patches in the ocean, I've gotten really fastidious about cleaning plastic off the riverbank. 1-inch pieces of duct tape, tangles of monofilament smaller than my palm, it all goes into my pockets now, and into the county landfill. That's probably not enough to help.
ReplyDeleteWhat a dramatic piece. And few give a shit!
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