Posted on 12/15/2018 6:22:04 AM PST by Twotone
Fake news
Fake crisis
Fake Indian
That’s Iron Eyes Cody in that PSA....he was Italian, born Espera DeCorti
Calling it an island is the sort of Alinsky technique that reduces a very real problem to a bad joke.
The North Pacific garbage patch is well known to those who sail between the US Mainland and the central or South Pacific. It is an area approximately a thousand miles across (My estimate based on ten days sailing at five knots to cross it in 2012), located roughly a thousand miles off the Northern California/Oregon coast filled floating debris. Some of the junk is big enough to damage a cruising boat. Most of it is tiny bits of plastic "Confetti" that you wouldn't notice from the deck of a large ship, let alone see from an aircraft.
Cruisers departing Hawaii for the mainland in 2012 were asked by researchers at the University of Hawaii to record what they saw of debris from the Fukushima tsunami. We didn't see much of that, but we did record what we found. If you want to see what the garbage patch actually looks like from a small boat, we made a video.
Say, what's the resale on those glass Japanese buoys...?
A Google-image search off
“Great Pacific Garbage Patch”
shows many photos of allegedly nonexistent plastic trash masses in the Pacific. Just because you don’t see tons of plastic trash in your yard or local beach doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist in other locations.
I know everyone else gets tired of these nanny-state liberal types who want to ban everything they don't approve of.
Most conservatives just make different choices.
Those are rare. Been here five years and only saw one. Fishermen here are cheap. They use plastic gallon jug or empty oil containers. The glass is empty soft drinks bottles. I surf most every day so I’m on the lookout for glass.
how many of those plastic bracelets return back to the ocean?
What's the difference between those bracelets and plastic straws? They have the same shape.
Thank you! That was a very enlightening video.
The big cities that recycle plastic ...ship it to Asia with our tax dollars and they dump most of it in the rivers and ocean...better of if we put the stuff in the land fill..
Plastic = polymers = hydrocarbons = spilled oil = microbial food source.
Thanks, I had forgotten about that.
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