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This floating ocean garbage is home to a surprising amount of life from the coasts
Government Affiliated NPR ^ | Nell Greenfieldboyce

Posted on 04/17/2023 9:10:15 AM PDT by BenLurkin

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1 posted on 04/17/2023 9:10:15 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

See, pollution can have its benefits.


2 posted on 04/17/2023 9:14:00 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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Pretty sure that the floating ocean of garbage is a big, fat lie.


3 posted on 04/17/2023 9:15:02 AM PDT by Reddy (BO stinks)
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Pour some kerosene on it and let ‘er rip. It is just some pesky hydrocarbons.


4 posted on 04/17/2023 9:17:28 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: BenLurkin

LIFE ADAPTS

Those always predicting death and destruction of LIFE due to human activity ignore just how much the continued existence of LIFE is based on and due to LIFE’s ability to adapt. “Environmentalists” always underestimate that.


5 posted on 04/17/2023 9:20:03 AM PDT by Wuli
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Capture it in the empty cargo ships and drop it off where it came from in Asia.


6 posted on 04/17/2023 9:20:17 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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And if it’s true, that plastic is not degradable, well the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: The Earth Plus Plastic.

The Earth doesn’t share our prejudice towards plastic. Plastic came out of the Earth; the Earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the Earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn’t know how to make it. Needed us.

Could be the answer to our age-old philosophical question – Why are we here?

Plastic – A______s!

-George Carlin


7 posted on 04/17/2023 9:20:38 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Same! “The great pacific garbage patch” is supposedly bigger than the state of Texas. But when you ask for someone to show you on a map where it is, NO ONE CAN. So, they’ve had to go to “micro-plastics”. You know, so small that you can’t see them! But trust us, they’re there!


8 posted on 04/17/2023 9:22:39 AM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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To: BenLurkin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMtLdE5Zq-8


9 posted on 04/17/2023 9:23:43 AM PDT by bwest
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LOL.... From the headline, it looked like they were talking about NYC and Los Angeles..... /s


10 posted on 04/17/2023 9:25:27 AM PDT by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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...floating ocean garbage is home to a surprising amount of life from the coasts

Declare it an "autonomous zone" and get the Antifa dirtbags from all along the west coast to go live there.

Then burn it.

11 posted on 04/17/2023 9:25:44 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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life, uh, finds a way


12 posted on 04/17/2023 9:26:49 AM PDT by Jeff Vader ( )
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Life finds a way... the world reflecting the nature of the creator.


13 posted on 04/17/2023 9:27:11 AM PDT by Frapster (Life finds a way.)
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“This floating ocean garbage is home to a surprising amount of life ....”

Manhattan and San Francisco.


14 posted on 04/17/2023 9:27:16 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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Shock. Life finds a way, right libs?

Yes, the world is pretty adaptive. Accept it.


15 posted on 04/17/2023 9:27:59 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV.)
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“Pretty sure that the floating ocean of garbage is a big, fat lie”

Yep, for one thing, salt water destroys everything it touches, even petroleum and petroleum products. An entire ship will can be destroyed in a century.


16 posted on 04/17/2023 9:28:05 AM PDT by Gary from Dayton (Scary unvaccinated American )
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some of the coastal species were reproducing on their makeshift, floating plastic homes.

So in other words they joined “The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Club”.

17 posted on 04/17/2023 9:28:19 AM PDT by rhinohunter (“Being woke means you’re a loser” — Donald J. Trump)
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“Then burn it”

We won’t have to. Antifa will burn it themselves.


18 posted on 04/17/2023 9:30:24 AM PDT by Gary from Dayton (Scary unvaccinated American )
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Life finds a way. Go figure. And eventually, little corals or crustaceans or tubeworms will build on the plastics, which will accrete in to larger pieces, and eventually sink to the bottom of the ocean. And when that happens you can bet the environazis will be screaming “PROTECT THE GREAT PACIFIC GARBAGE PATCH!”


19 posted on 04/17/2023 9:35:38 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Tell It Right

Seems like a bunch of has come from the Asian tsunamis.


20 posted on 04/17/2023 9:35:42 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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