[johncatl]

I’m calling BS on this one. It’s just too perfect a fit for the worldview of the Goreons.

[americanophile]

Google ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch.’ The amount of trash is about the size of N. America, and marine animals are ingesting it. It's the cause of considerable death to whole populations of animals whose stomachs fill with indigestible plastic and starve to death. This one has real and readily discernible cause and effect.