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A Frenchman who currently resides in the USA is attempting to swim the Pacific Ocean to highlight the plight of Earth's oceans.
It is of note that there is currently a sludge field of micro-plastics, plastic junk and chemicals double the size of Texas....and some will go further and state it could be as large as the continental U.S or even Russia..... putting all life in earth's oceans at further risk of more and more and more destructive forces that will adversely affect the smallest life forms that are the base for life in the sea, like plankton. Will this affect the way you will vote this coming fall by voting in candidates that do support the scientific community in regards to global warming?
If the guy swims from where Sarah Palin claims she can see Russia, the Bering Straight is 51 miles in a dry suit. Lynne Cox did the 2.5 miles of it between Little Diomede Island (USA) and Big Diomede Island (USSR) in 1987.
A Frenchman who currently resides in the USA is attempting to swim the Pacific Ocean to highlight the plight of Earth's oceans.
It is of note that there is currently a sludge field of micro-plastics, plastic junk and chemicals double the size of Texas....and some will go further and state it could be as large as the continental U.S or even Russia..... putting all life in earth's oceans at further risk of more and more and more destructive forces that will adversely affect the smallest life forms that are the base for life in the sea, like plankton. Will this affect the way you will vote this coming fall by voting in candidates that do support the scientific community in regards to global warming?
Who the hell is dumping all that crap in the ocean? Can't they at least bury it on land somewhere?
People from just about every country have dumped trash for years into the oceans. If you can't see it, it isn't there, right? It's all coming back to kick the earth in the arse, especially after plastics were invented.
This article was from Feb 2011. I'm sure it's MUCH, MUCH worse.
"all this trash has to build up someplace or another and in 1997 Charles Moore discovered where most of it has accumulated - in the middle of our ocean. It's a garbage patch so big that the state of Texas can fit into it twice. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
There are five major garbage patches in the world. The Pacific garbage patch, which is the largest of the five, is located 1,000 miles northeast of Hawaii. In some places, the patch can reach depths of up to 90 feet."
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GOOD FOR LOS ANGELES! EVERY city in every country should follow suit.
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Of the plastic items, about half were plastic grocery bags. These increasingly controversial items can choke and smother animals.
Los Angeles became the biggest city in the country to ban free plastic bags in grocery stores following a city council vote this past Tuesday.
About $2 million a year is spent to clean up plastic bag litter in Los Angeles. Sanitation authorities estimate more than 228,000 bags are distributed in the city every hour.
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It's all coming back to kick the earth in the arse, especially after plastics were invented.
