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 ...
It is all about demarketing oil so we buy renewables from billionaires and other connected people. Miraculously when coal and oil get owned by termites, it will suddenly become a miracle source of energy. Then we will have to buy our gas from elite owned companies.
Termites = elites.
Although it is probably an apt term anyway.
I love FR and I love the articles Freepers post, but the truth never seems to affect the general public. Environmentalism is a religion and the facts don’t matter. When are people going to stop falling for the next enviro doomsday crisis? Is this the part of their religion that is the equivalent of the end times? Maybe people like being in a panic mode all the time. It lends some excitement to their dull, everyday lives.
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…Despite this, Greenpeace has been actively misleading the public to create the perception that there are massive floating ‘islands’ filled with plastic bottles, plastic bags and other plastic debris,”
- - George Carlin
“90% of plastic polluting our oceans comes from just 10 rivers”
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/90-of-plastic-polluting-our-oceans-comes-from-just-10-rivers/
“By analyzing the waste found in the rivers and surrounding landscape, researchers were able to estimate that just 10 river systems carry 90% of the plastic that ends up in the ocean.
Eight of them are in Asia: the Yangtze; Indus; Yellow; Hai He; Ganges; Pearl; Amur; Mekong; and two in Africa – the Nile and the Niger.”
Is there any satellite images of the island?
Have not seen such on FR
What, you mean that plastic breaks down into manageable slivers and then finally into nothing?
Well duh. Walk along a remote beach and look at what gets washed ashore. It’s rarely a complete item. 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. There was some trash along the beach but nothing alarming. Mostly unidentifiable and very small chunks of plastic that had been broken up by the sun and the action of the waves.
“Woah, woah, woah! This corner is for climate alarmism! You plastics guys need to go find your own!”
“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>
I have heard that. I have no knowledge of the facts, but I offer this as a possibility:
I have heard that you could fit all 7 billion people on the planet in Texas. It's a thought experiment. If you were to gather every human, they could stand in a space the size of Texas. But what if you took every little bit of plastic which is in the entire Pacific ocean, and what if you gathered them all together? How much area could you (theoretically) cover with all of that plastic? Perhaps a space the size of Texas. THEREFORE: There is a plastic island the size of Texas floating in the Pacific.
A bit off topic, but I recently watched It's a Wonderful Life for the umpteenth time (probably the most underrated movie of its generation), and in that movie, 20 years before The Graduate, the character Sam Wainwright becomes very wealthy as a producer of plastics, particularly plastic windshields for WWII planes, and he attempts fairly early in the movie to convince main character George Bailey to join him in the venture.
But Greenpeace founding member and Ecologist Dr. Patrick Moore — who has turned against the organization — responds to the plastics scare:
“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.
If I were talented like some of you, I would post a photo of an icebreaker plowing through a sea of plastic bottles.
Photoshop a real icebreaker photo changing the ice to plastic bottles.
Well we can always go back to burning wood for our heating and cooking needs and using whale oil for our lights. Sometimes I think these little green people forget where we came from, oil and gas has saved us from our past. I’m old enough to remember a time before plastic’s when everything was built from wood, packed in cardboard and carried in paper. Look at old pictures of the towns back pre-1900 and especially look at the terrain in the back ground. Early pictures of the town I live in now show no tree’s as far as the eye can see, they were cut down and used for heating and cooking. People in wagons would have to travel some distance to cut wood and bring it back to town. It wasn’t until early 1900’s that Bakelite was introduced and early 60’s when polyethylene became a major player. Some of these products were discovered much earlier but putting them to use came much later. I remember people saying paper or plastic and would frown at you if you chose paper.
Back when I taught critical thinking, I used to point out to my students who were convinced that the US was overpopulated that one could give a half-acre of land in Texas to every person living in the US (about 310 million at the time), and still have land leftover in Texas, with the other 56 states (/sarc) completely devoid of population.
Now the ‘sea of plastic garbage’ is the ‘size of Alaska.’ Last month it was ‘the size of Texas’ yet no satellite photo has been presented because the sea of plastic is a fiction. The ultimate in Fake News.”
The statement comes up in FR on occasion.
OMG !! The Blob ,RUN ,\o/
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