Tuesday, October 27, 2009

The Garbage Island


I have been really fascinated and horrified by the great pacific garbage patch for some time. If you don't know, we have basically ruined out oceans and perhaps the most stunning evidence of that is a gigantic cluster of floating plastic in the middle of the pacific ocean. The picture above is part of a photo essay on decomposing birds, which have been raised on plastic from the garbage island. The video below is a short program filmed by a ship that sailed through the garbage patch. I don't know why we don't talk about our oceans more, this is a problem that is already a catastrophy today.



2 comments:

  1. We must stop creating inventions for society and create inventions for Earth, please.

    ReplyDelete