Posted on 12/15/2018 6:22:04 AM PST by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at climatedepot.com ...
Larry David’s wife, right?
It’s always a Crisis when money is involved
I live on the coast of Ecuador. I pick up about 50 lbs of plastic, cardboard, plastic rope and glass each week over about a 100 yard frontage. Comes mostly from fishermen but weekend beach users just leave their trash.
Last night on the science channel a show had a satellite image of a moving island headed towards New Zealand.
One theory was that it was a floating pile of plastic headed towards NZ. A scientist familiar with the Pacific Garbage Patch said No Way because most of the plastic would be BELOW THE SURFACE and not visible on satellite imaging. The Garbage Patch is there bust most is submerged, held in place by the currents.
The floating island turned out to be magma ejected by an underwater volcano. The magma cooled so quickly trapped air pockets gave them positive buoyancy. Pretty cool.
Supposedly collected by the North Pacific Gyre, where various current meet and form a vast, slow, whirlpool.
Conveniently, this location is way the hell-n-gone off any shipping routes, so we are left with whatever the Climate Liars say it is.
Iron Eyes Cody, the noted Italian, who stumbled into a sweet hustle....
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???
Hahaha. Thankyou. Waded through lots of posts on this thread before yours hoping some one would post the so obvious.
What do the enviros want us to use instead to package the billions of items that we ship? Wood? Steel?
The problem is not so much the plastic items in the ocean, but the ingestion of microfibers (from plastics and fabrics) by marine life, which can then go on up the food chain into us.
If you’re leery of government taking care of this (I certainly am), there is a company called 4oceans which sells bracelets made from plastic waste. The proceeds are used by the company to clean plastic waste out of the oceans.
This insidious invasion of our lives by these Constant BusyBodies is in many ways as alarming as being ruled by oppressive and controlling governments.
Give these people 10 minutes and they will come up with something that is either bad for us or the planet. Nothing is ever good enough for them.
How about we ban them and leave the plastics alone?
Yep. 8>)
This was also addressed in the article:
“What I don’t get is why it is assumed that a bit of plastic in your digestive tract is probably ‘harmful.’ This is the same plastic nearly all our food is packaged, transported, stored, and often served in. It is essentially inert and with the main exception of PVC, which contains chlorine, is made of 100% carbon and hydrogen. And because it is so inert it goes right through us like a small pebble or the cellulose in a kernel of corn.
Wasn’t that “Indian,” Italian?
Golly, that makes me feel old.
bfl
Born Espera Oscar de Corti (Wikipedia).
The Italian Indian.
The Goomba Geronimo.
The da...well, you get the idea
Probably had more Indian in him than Elizabeth Warren.
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Having sailed across the Pacific between the US Mainland and Hawaii several times in a small boat, I can state with certainty that there is a patch of mostly plastic floating trash in the North Pacific that is several hundred miles across. It took us nearly ten days to sail through it. The water is filled with tiny bits of plastic. It’s like plastic soup with large pieces of styrofoam packing material, plastic drink bottles, old coolers, fishing net floats and all kinds of debris floating on top. The visible stuff on the surface ranges from bits the size of a fingernail up to junk almost as big as my boat. Imagine how much is suspended just beneath the surface or lying on the bottom out of sight.
Those who have never been out there, a thousand miles offshore, and seen it may doubt, but it is real. I have seen it and I have seen it getting worse from my first trip from Hawaii to Seattle in 1999 to my most recent trip from Hawaii to Sitka in 2012.
There is far too much to have come from ships and fishing boats and it has all accumulated in only the last fifty years. Anyone who thinks this is not a problem is a fool.
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