mojave_wolf ([info]mojave_wolf) wrote,
@ 2009-10-20 19:33:00
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Entry tags:birds, environmental catastrophe, garbage

"Swim Out Past the Breakers, Watch the World Die, Pt 14"
Go here:
http://jblaque.livejournal.com/735379.htm

Another truly gruesome story, this time of birds on uninhabited islands in the middle of the pacific dying in droves because they ingested our garbage.

That the powers-that-be haven't yet tried to do anything about the floating islands of garbage in the ocean, when anyone with the tiniest amount of imagination and brains would have to realize it's going to lead to more and more things like this, and then combine with the increasing # of dead zones in the ocean . . .

But no, we have to bail out wall street and the insurance companies and try to protect Blackwater goons (I don't have the link in front of me, but if you don't know what I mean by that last, google Blackwater, rape, Franken, Republicans, and you'll see what I mean; Franken was the good guy here, btw, go Minnesota for electing him).


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I mourn...
[info]papananook
2009-10-21 06:38 am UTC (link)
Hiya, Wolfie...that link for JBlaque didn't work for me but I know about this and have been crowing (or spouting from my blowhole since my nickname is actually Papawhale) about this for months or years or whenever I first saw the thing about Mr. Moore running across the Gyre Patch of human filth. It's just another disgusting hole we humans have dug that won't be easily gotten out of....ever. Howdahell are we gonna possibly clean that up, considering most of the vrap is soup of broken particles below the surface? A giant seine net of very fine mesh? And without any recogniton by some international body, who will organize, research, impliment and pay for it? We have fucked the ocean so rapaciously, I fear for it's very survival which means we're all quite screwed. May our kids generation will come up with some genius solution but wow--what a fucked up challenge, neh? I mourn for my beloved oceans.

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[info]mojave_wolf
2009-10-25 05:06 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, I'm totally with you on this. It's a nightmare, but one I hope we can pull out of (for the sake of the rest of world as well as the humans).

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[info]anaisninja
2009-10-21 04:30 pm UTC (link)
-_-

This is one of those things where I wonder if the ends can be stretched to justify the means. If there's no ideal solution, is an attempt at an imperfect solution better than none at all?

If there's any possible way to determine what countries do the majority of the dumping and what rough percentage of the garbage was contributed by such countries.

If there was an organization that delegated such things, to create a penalty fee/asshole tax that countries who dump in the oceans must pay, according to percentage.

If that money could be used to build a facility on one of aforementioned remote islands, for the construction of an incinerator or similar abomination. Something that would make landlubbers and tree-huggers weep tears of blood, but allow sea-faring species to swim and breathe and live again.

If there were a way to compress and bond the garbage fast together, a way to detoxify it, make it sink like surrogate coral to the ocean floor.

Perhaps Cthulhu would rise from R'lyeh and hand our collective primate asses to us in his mighty tentacled paw. I wouldn't blame 'em.

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[info]mojave_wolf
2009-10-25 05:12 pm UTC (link)
lol, yes. For all that Lovecraftian Old Ones were awful, can't say our actual effects on the world are any better than theirs would have been if they'd been real. Frighteningly similar, in some ways.

And yes, finding a good solution will be a nightmare. On the other hand, for the sort of money we put into Iraq, I think it could be done. For the sort of money we put into the financial sector bail-out, I'm thining highly probable it could be done, and probably leave a lot of money left over and create a lot of jobs and advance our technology and save lots of wildlife and the oceans while we're at it.

And if it can't be done, we're ultimately all in deep, deep trouble.

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