Special Report: Scientists Expose The Truth Behind the Plastic ‘Crisis’ (trunc)

Climate Depot ^ | December 14, 2018 | Marc Morano

[Twotone]

“One Word: Plastics.” Yes, just 51 years after the 1967 film “The Graduate”, “plastics” just may be the future of environmental scares, eclipsing the man-made climate scare. But this “plastics crisis” attempts to make people “feel guilty and worried about a ‘crisis’ which isn’t actually real,” according to a blockbuster new report by a team of international scientists.

There is evidence that some climate activists are seeking to elevate the plastic ‘crisis’ above the climate ‘crisis.’ Former Vice President Al Gore’s producer of his 2006 film “An Inconvenient Truth,” — Hollywood eco-activist Laurie David — has been test-marketing the plastic eco-scare.

David has touted the plastic crisis over man-made climate fears. “Plastic waste is in some ways more alarming for us humans than global warming,” David wrote in 2009.

“The rapid rise in global plastic production is leading to a rise in plastic pollution and its devastating effects on our oceans and our lives.,” Laurie David wrote.

“This insidious invasion of the biosphere by our plastic waste is in some ways more alarming for us humans than global warming. Our bodies have evolved to handle carbon dioxide, the nemesis of global warming, indeed, we exhale it with every breath.

[faucetman]

“Greenpeace has been actively misleading the public to create the perception that there are massive floating ‘islands’ filled with plastic bottles,”

Too bad it’s NOT true! If it were, we could just go pick it up! (being already gathered into one place)

[Twotone]

“There is said to be a island of plastic in the Pacific Ocean the size of Texas.”

I saw an article about this some time back, & this article does mention it. The reality is there is no island. There is a ‘quiet’ area where ocean currents bring floating debris where it kind of sits for a while. But as this article says, there is nothing that could be taken a picture of from a satellite. It’s tiny slivers of plastic that will eventually degrade from solar activity. Just another enviro-hoax that the lamestream media will not de-bunk. The enviro grifters need to make a living.

[Rebelbase]

“Last summer my wife and I hiked 14 miles along a Lake Michigan beach that was so remote, we only saw a couple other people. We were looking for straws to rescue. We found none.”

If the squeeze on straws is that bad up there let’s get together and work out a deal. My source can supply all you need.

[Robert DeLong]

Laurie David

[I want the USA back]

Assume that the carbon dioxide “crisis” is solved tomorrow. Will these preachers of the religion of environmentalism go away quietly? no. They will start preaching about the plastic “crisis.” And if that were suddenly solved, they would find another one.

[faucetman]

Some of us will remember the feather Indian shedding a tear upon seeing the waste washed up on the shore.

The beginning of the environ mental movement.

[mjp]

Assume that the carbon dioxide “crisis” is solved tomorrow. Will these preachers of the religion of environmentalism go away quietly? no. They will start preaching about the plastic “crisis.” And if that were suddenly solved, they would find another one.

because what they really want is control: statism & socialism

[faucetman]

I think it might be David Laurie

[cyclotic]

I can go to Walmart too.

And if I really need it, my kid works for a restaurant supplier.

Yesterday, he made a delivery. The customer ordered foam cups instead of plastic ones and really needed a case of plastic. My son went to a local competitor who had a retail store, bought a box of cups and delivered them.

Thinking.

[Brilliant]

Just ban the shipment of recycling materials.

[teeman8r]

I had an uncle that died of plastic poisoning... he was eating a candy bar and swallowed the plastic wrapper... he choked on it and stumbled in front of a bus.

[Robert DeLong]

Nope it's her: Laurie Ellen David is an American environmental activist. She produced the Academy Award-winning An Inconvenient Truth and, most recently, teamed up with Katie Couric to executive produce Fed Up, a film about the causes of obesity in the United States.

A blog by her in 2009 - Of Plankton and Plastic in the Pacific

[Twotone]

Eric Hoffer said that every great cause started as a movement, became a business & then a racket. The environmental movement has definitely devolved into a racket. Too many folks make their living off it, & none of them are doing much good for the planet anymore.

[null and void]

There is no such image. A few hundred dime sized pieces per square mile doesn’t really show up on a photo from space.

[Towed_Jumper]

“There is said to be a island of plastic in the Pacific Ocean the size of Texas.”

USA should claim it and move the illegal immigrants there. </s

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I would like to see President Trump have the U.S. Navy capture that “plastic island” and haul it into the South China Sea. There, they could park it next to one of those fake Chinese islands in the Spratley’s the ChiComs built. He could then declare the “plastic island” a U.S. territory and proceed to build a military airstrip on it and ring it with air defense weapons. Voila! Recycling at it's finest!

[IronJack]

Our bodies have evolved to handle carbon dioxide

Uh ... was there ever a time when our bodies COULDN'T "handle" carbon dioxide, considering it's our own bodies that produce it????

[oh8eleven]

Some of us will remember the feather Indian shedding a tear ...

[IronJack]

with the main exception of PVC, which contains chlorine

And which composes 90 percent of the water pipes in your home, along with numerous other daily objects. It "contains chlorine" in that PVC is polyvinyl chloride. But by that logic, you could also say that table salt -- sodium chloride -- "contains chlorine."

[jmclemore]

However, the concentrations that they are talking about are relatively modest, e.g., a few hundred fragments per square mile in the worst regions,” the report concludes. “Also, the average sizes of these plastic fragments are very small, e.g., less than 1/16 inches in diameter

Now compare that to this statement,

Ground cinnamon, for example, can contain up to an average of 400 insect fragments per 50 grams. And ground marjoram can contain up to an average of 1,175 insect fragments per 10 grams. (A typical cinnamon jar holds about 42 grams. And a typical McCormick container of ground marjoram weighs 18 g.)

You are more likely to eat bug parts while consuming cinnamon, than being touched by floating plastic while swimming at the beach.

[palmer]

...and then finally into nothing

Something can't turn into nothing. The only question is what the inert plasic does compared to similarly sized mineral or organic components. The answer is probably no difference.