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This shocking news video was just released to the media today. It is horrifying that what once was one of the most beautiful and pristine places on earth has been reduced into this desolate nightmare by us humans.
The problem isn't plastic. The problem is dropping garbage in the ocean and nobody to stop it. We have plastic here too but you don't see scenes like this.
ARGH!! As an ocean lover and diver this is just heartbreaking. I live in a SE Florida beach town and while it is not nearly this bad, it is heading in this direction. With population growth, and tons more of plastic packaging and bottles, this problem is just going to grow exponentially. I wish I could come up with some way to create a laser that would vaporize plastic and paper based trash. I know we have too much trash to be able to manage it properly but what I can’t understand is why these lazy selfish people can’t hold on to their trash the 50 to 100 yards it takes to get to a trash can. Infuriating as I think of all the birds and sea creatures ingesting this trash
This doesn't surprise me at all. Have any of you been to a third world country? I have. There was garbage, feces, and urine everywhere. While in the Navy I had the honor to go to the middle east. Every alleyway was covered in garbage, and crap. People walking down the street would just veer into an alley, take a dump, and keep going like nothing happened. When I got back, I would put my boots in a garbage bag, God only knows what was on them. When we were in the harbor in Antalya, there was tons of garbage, plastic, just floating by. I saw a couple of dead animals as well. People would bring dead animals and just toss them into the ocean. First world countries are doing a much better job managing waste, in the third world, they do what they please.
It's still weird how people are now so addicted to drinking water out of plastic bottles. Some - especially younger - can't even conceive of drinking water in any other way. But praise the bottled water industry. Our aqua-gods to the rescue.
We should be arresting people who dump garbage off of ships and giving them heavy fines and even shutting down their businesses if they don't stop polluting. How does plastic of this magnitude end up in the ocean in the first place? People who simply don't care.. well we should make them care... take away half their income for the year, maybe they stop dumping garbage off the side of the boat. Money talks. Bull**** walks.
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It is horrifying that what once was one of the most beautiful and pristine places on earth has been reduced into this desolate nightmare by us humans. 
