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It's not only about halting the slaughter of our brothers and sisters across the world. It's everything alive.
From the AP — 18 hours agoSo that's two in the last couple weeks, right here under our noses.
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Biologists who examined a gray whale that died after getting stranded on a West Seattle beach say it had a large amount of garbage in its stomach — ranging from a pair of sweat pants to a golf ball.
The scientists say most of the whale's stomach contents was algae — typical of the bottom-feeding mammals. But they say a surprising amount of human debris was found. Besides the pants and golf ball, there were more than 20 plastic bags, small towels, duct tape and surgical gloves.
The 37-foot whale beached itself last Wednesday.
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ReplyDeleteI feel PRECISELY the same way.
You realize, of course, that NONE of this needs to be this way.
ReplyDeleteWE decide what we we do and don't do and what to call this and what to call that...
ALL we have to do is change our minds, and pft, end of problems.
This makes me crazy. It's as simple as that.
I went to google earth and typed in "pacific ocean garbage patch" and it rotated the globe until the Atlantic ocean was centered on the screen, then zoomed in a little - the east and west shorelines were still visible.
ReplyDeleteHmmm - wrong ocean!
So I typed in "atlantic ocean garbage patch.
Sure enough - it zoomed back out a little then began to rotate towards the Pacific.
But then it stopped with the USA centered on the screen
Atlantic Ocean Garbage Patch = USA
Hmmmmm......
Google Earth is famous for fucking up the REALLY telling information. They blur out industrial timberlands and all manner of other things we would like to see but somebody doesn't want us to see.
ReplyDeleteWhile growing up as a pre-teen and teenager I spent my summers on Green bay near Sturgeon bay.
ReplyDeleteI watched as over the years the bay was destroyed by the inflow of phosphates and nitrates from the farm field fertilizers and household detergents. When my family first bought our property the bay was pristine. You could see the bottom in 20 feet of water.
The last time I was there, 1970 or so, the water was only clear in the early spring, right after the ice thawed. By August the algae bloom was so thick the water at the shoreline was like pea soup. Foot long green "hairs" of algae grew from the rocks.
I have no idea how it is now. They had cut way back on the amount of phosphates allowed in detergents and were working on plans to mitigate the farm runoff.
So hopefully it has improved.
If we start organizing to become the ancestors of the next generation of Native Americans maybe that won't happen again.
ReplyDeleteMuch too Sad to fully digest [(no pun intended (serious)] !!!
ReplyDeleteOcean were never meant to be dumpsters.
BH