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The Single Greatest Environmental Debacle for Humans in the 21st Century

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By Frosty Wooldridge

The “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” stands as the most disgraceful, deadly and pernicious creation by humanity in the 21st century.  The patch floats between two gyres in the Pacific Ocean with a mass of plastic debris greater than the size of Texas.  It consists of trillions of pieces of plastic tossed by 7.3 billion humans living on seven continents.   Oceanographers estimate that humans add 2.5 million more pieces of plastic every hour to the world’s oceans.

The patch represents the most ugly and deadly toilet humanity ever created upon this planet.  It kills millions of marine creatures annually.  It destroys animal habitat across the seven seas and all our oceans from the Arctic to Antarctica. 

Oceanographer Julia Whitty discovered that 46,000 pieces of plastic, on average, float on every square mile of the Earth’s oceans.  Even more sickening, trillions of pieces of plastic sink below the surface to slaughter sharks, turtles, dolphins, whales, seals, otters and just about everything that lives in the oceans.  Unfortunately, every ocean features its own “patch” from the trillions of plastic pieces tossed by humans annually.

When Oprah exposed the patch 15 years ago, I figured world leaders would race to a world conference to put an international 25-cent deposit-return law into effect to vanquish the patch.  To date, not one single country in the world features a deposit-return law of any kind.  Australia, Canada, Europe and America refuse to step forward.  China, India, Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, countries of Africa and all over the world stand idly as their scientists and leaders watch—-but ignore its horrific environmental degradation of humanity’s food chain. 

As plastics break down, marine life feeds upon them and finally we feed upon marine life.  As the human race jumps from 7.3 billion to 10.1 billion within 35 years—how does anyone think the oceans will survive the plastic onslaught of another 3.1 billion people? 

This ghastly, if not poignant look onto Midway Island, 2,000 miles out in the Pacific Ocean, reminds us of the sublime beauty of our planet via the waved albatross, but how fast humanity’s plastics ravage the natural world.  The following four-minute video allows you a mind-changing look into humanity’s onslaught of the natural world.

http://www.upworthy.com/people-should-know-about-this-awful-thing-we-do-and-most-of-us-are-simply-unaware?c=ufb1

At what point will Australia, Canada, Europe and the United States lead the world toward 25-cent deposit-return laws on all plastics?  At what point will citizens of those countries stand up rather than apathetically watch their children face accelerating consequences to a battered and abused planet?  At what point will world leaders take action?  What are you doing in your country?    Hint: probably nothing.   Frosty Wooldridge, 6 continent world bicycle traveler and worldwide scuba diver

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