yeah well of course we need to do what we can as consumers. but more than anything we need to get the greedmongers to stop producing and pushing the stuff. i'm getting pretty fed up with 'go green' meaning 'place the blame on the consumers' and 'make people buy 'green' products.' industry is doing this to our planet, not the people. we didn't ask for this.
plastic: archeologists' wet dream. it'll be called plastic era after stone/bronze/iron era, not information age era especially the way CD/DVD's degrade information faster than paper or magnetic tape.
bravo - eat, sleep, breathe plastic - it's a sad state that we will make it through - as long as we don't blow each other up quibbling about which means we could completely destroy each other and the world are allowed to be owned by whom... peace. . .
Re-use, Recycle, Reduce consumption. Give, Love, and defend your country from the evil forces within (Bush, Cheney, and corporations) or we will lose it all. The time is NOW! Peace. (Eventually) 5 stars.
let's not be deluded into thinking that it's *all* our responsibility
if plastic weren't aggressively produced and marketed in the first place, we wouldn't even have to recycle. and recycling plastic is still quite damaging to the environment.
the corporations say plastic is 'what the consumers want,' but i don't remember writing letters asking them to put water and soda in plastic bottles....
i bet if people actually knew just half of how harmful plastic is to the earth and themselves.. things would be veeerrrry different than the way it works now
the plastics industry has a very aggressive propaganda campaign
the very least we could do is stop using plastic for non-essential items, like elvis figurines. and then we'd soon realize that it's all non-essential. we lived just fine without plastic before the 20th century--it is not part of 'progress,' but rather of part of a serious decline.
Huh? did you just say there is a huge plastic eddy in the ocean the size of Texas? Where did you hear that? Recycle and reuse everybody... will that stop us from peeing plastic toxins? OMG what should I prepare my hubby's lunch in? O my... u got me thinking... thanks for posting and no I don't have a plastic Santa and yes I need to be aware of these dangers of plastic... Merry Christmas anyways! PEACE!
yes. you can start with 'north pacific gyre' on wikipedia if you're interested in learning more. people lived without plastic and stored food without plastic for eons...it's a relatively recent invention that's been forced on us. yes, recycle, but more than that, we need to end plastic production altogether.
Hi Penni, I am always screaming at Lance The Cat because he has an odd habit of chewing on plastic. He loves plastic almost as much as his mudder! I guess my little oddball is doing his small part for ecology. :) Thanks for posting this.
There is biodegradable plastic. I got some at the natural food stoe and buried it in the rainy season, marked the spot, went back a few weeks later: nothing there. But I figured this was just a trick, and the polymers were now in the soil.
As to more plastic than plankton: Bull! Can you prove it? No.
Plastic disintegrates into smaller bits of plastic, but doesn't biodegrade into natural elements. And yes, marine biologists have proved it; I didn't use any statements that haven't been published in scientific journals. You don't see the plastic--it is broken down into compounds. The most toxic compounds are called phalates, which mimic estrogen, attract other toxins, and cause all sorts of health problems. In the North Pacific, the ratio of phalates to plankton is 4:1. Thanks for asking.
I know it sounds hard to believe, but take up the argument with the marine biologists. I have no interest in lying about these matters, and if anything I said is in error, I'd be happy to correct it. All of our plastic eventually ends up in the ocean. Denying the problem doesn't make it go away. The data is readily available online. There is also a documentary that I'll try to get posted on YouTube.
Yes the plastics industry's propaganda has convinced people that there are new "environmentally friendly" and "biodegradable" plastics. There aren't. If anything, they are more harmful because they break down into toxins instead of remaining in one piece that might be more or less safely discarded. The Alqalita Marine Research Foundation states that the North Pacific gyre mentioned in the video holds 10 pounds of plastic for every pound of zooplankton. Off L.A., the ration is 2.5/1.
thank you very much. yes it is time to end plastic production--plastic literally never goes away. we will kill the oceans if we don't stop making it. we can act on the consumer level, but there also need to be radical changes on the corporate level.
I just don't agreee with that If you want change it HAS to start with you. You can't just go around asking someones boss to give up his lively hood if you arent willing to do the same. Make the radical changes with yourself, set the example for them to follow otherwise your message means nothing.
I do make radical changes myself and set examples for others to follow. But the problem with plastic did not start with the ordinary person. It started with corporate greedmongers who found a way to make a quick buck at the expense of our health and our planet. If those are the bosses you are talking about, I seriously don't care about their "livelihood." We have had plastic forced down our throats--to say that we had a choice in the matter is to be seriously deluded.
Good video makes an awesome point I actually agree but fact is the machines you used to make this video are mostly plastic and crap <g> LOL SOrry Go MAC!
I apologize for the double posting. Yes, the plastics industry has brainwashed the public into thinking plastic is indispensable, even though mankind was fine without it until very recently, so yes I have plastic in my world, as do we all, but I did not ask for it. Plastic production is using up the oil and killing the seas. I would gladly trade any "benefit" I might derive from plastic for healthy oceans. The very least we can do is boycott crap such as $80 inflatable snow globes.
The combination of the imagery and the background music generates quite a tense mood. The text was very difficult to read, maybe this was deliberate to force the viewer to concentrate on it more, or maybe bright red or blue would have been a better choice of colour. Overall, an effective way to get the message across.
the tension was quite deliberate, but the text dysfunction was accidental. i decided to leave it that way because of tech frustrations and the impending christmas season, and yes, i trusted it might add to the disturbing quality of the video. the text was quite readable before i uploaded it to YouTube, but Windows Movie Maker was freezing and crashing, so I abandoned ship. i may rework it at some point. thank you for your kind comments. (full text is in the sidebar)
I know--I kind of gave up on it, because Windows Movie Maker was freezing and crashing, and i didn't have the patience to go back and try to fix it. I might redo it at some point. I wanted to give the viewer a feeling of vertigo and disorientation, so i rationalized that the fuzzy text would add to that experience. guess not. yes think thrice please, and then take action. plastic production needs to stop now.
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zachNewYork 2 years ago
Wow...I didn't know most of that. Thanks for the education Penni. It's going to be hard to avoid plastic...but how can I not try, now. Thanks again.
ItsFilthy 4 years ago
yeah well of course we need to do what we can as consumers. but more than anything we need to get the greedmongers to stop producing and pushing the stuff. i'm getting pretty fed up with 'go green' meaning 'place the blame on the consumers' and 'make people buy 'green' products.' industry is doing this to our planet, not the people. we didn't ask for this.
pennilesscripple 4 years ago
I absolutely love this comment penni. I cannot express it enough.
runnygrits 3 years ago
thank you grits. yeah that's a point that i've been wanting to put in a video, too.
pisses me off no end.
pennilesscripple 3 years ago
plastic: archeologists' wet dream. it'll be called plastic era after stone/bronze/iron era, not information age era especially the way CD/DVD's degrade information faster than paper or magnetic tape.
jogayot 4 years ago
thanks for visiting, jogayot
if we don't stop the destruction of the planet, there won't be any archaeologists to document these times
pennilesscripple 4 years ago
thanks lamps
can't believe i've been here over a year....
(i was gonna remake it, but it didn't happen)
pennilesscripple 4 years ago
bravo - eat, sleep, breathe plastic - it's a sad state that we will make it through - as long as we don't blow each other up quibbling about which means we could completely destroy each other and the world are allowed to be owned by whom... peace. . .
rentedhalo 4 years ago
Re-use, Recycle, Reduce consumption. Give, Love, and defend your country from the evil forces within (Bush, Cheney, and corporations) or we will lose it all. The time is NOW! Peace. (Eventually) 5 stars.
OregonDARRYL 4 years ago
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truly we all can. at least let's pick up the trash! peace my friend, and many thanks!
PEACendwarWORLDpeace 4 years ago
yes
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let's not be deluded into thinking that it's *all* our responsibility
if plastic weren't aggressively produced and marketed in the first place, we wouldn't even have to recycle. and recycling plastic is still quite damaging to the environment.
the corporations say plastic is 'what the consumers want,' but i don't remember writing letters asking them to put water and soda in plastic bottles....
pennilesscripple 4 years ago
i don't remember doing that either..
i bet if people actually knew just half of how harmful plastic is to the earth and themselves.. things would be veeerrrry different than the way it works now
dazedANDtruckin 4 years ago
yeah dazed i think they would
the plastics industry has a very aggressive propaganda campaign
the very least we could do is stop using plastic for non-essential items, like elvis figurines. and then we'd soon realize that it's all non-essential. we lived just fine without plastic before the 20th century--it is not part of 'progress,' but rather of part of a serious decline.
pennilesscripple 4 years ago
i guess time passes and everything gets bigger except us huh..
people will open their insightful little eyes soon C. it'll be all right =)
dazedANDtruckin 4 years ago
yay glad to hear that
pennilesscripple 4 years ago
Huh? did you just say there is a huge plastic eddy in the ocean the size of Texas? Where did you hear that? Recycle and reuse everybody... will that stop us from peeing plastic toxins? OMG what should I prepare my hubby's lunch in? O my... u got me thinking... thanks for posting and no I don't have a plastic Santa and yes I need to be aware of these dangers of plastic... Merry Christmas anyways! PEACE!
abuggymom1 4 years ago
yes. you can start with 'north pacific gyre' on wikipedia if you're interested in learning more. people lived without plastic and stored food without plastic for eons...it's a relatively recent invention that's been forced on us. yes, recycle, but more than that, we need to end plastic production altogether.
pennilesscripple 4 years ago
Hi Penni, I am always screaming at Lance The Cat because he has an odd habit of chewing on plastic. He loves plastic almost as much as his mudder! I guess my little oddball is doing his small part for ecology. :) Thanks for posting this.
pi314too 4 years ago
yikes get it away from him not a healthy thing to ingest....
(new stray kitty just moved in on me so it's a party here)
pennilesscripple 4 years ago
This video seemed like it might have been pretty good, but damned if I could read some of the text...
canubelieve 4 years ago
yeah thanks i know i might redo it at some point--maybe for this christmas....
the titles came out goofy in the transition to youtube
but i decided the trouble reading them added to the sense of disorientation and made it art...yeah right ha....
the text is in the sidebar
pennilesscripple 4 years ago
I think most people will get the point of the video - the music is actually much more interesting than the plastic messages - great vid!
xesclub101 4 years ago
There is such thing as biodegradable plastic, made from plants. I can deteriorate in 12 weeks. Really, look it up.
jpcstudios 4 years ago
i'm glad you can deteriorate in 12 weeks.
plastic can't.
pennilesscripple 4 years ago
I love plastic!
Signed, The Plastic Council
leetonia 5 years ago
then you must be very happy as the world is full of it ;^)
pennilesscripple 5 years ago
we fear all petrolium products
cloudmonkeys 5 years ago
yes we do
and that fear is based on wisdom
pennilesscripple 5 years ago
Now THERE'S a video that matters! Truly relevant, important, and useful. Thank you for reaffirming my belief in the medium! Five stars.
2soon2tell 5 years ago
hee hee hee what a topper to that discussion!
you have made my entire week
bless your heart
pennilesscripple 5 years ago
There is biodegradable plastic. I got some at the natural food stoe and buried it in the rainy season, marked the spot, went back a few weeks later: nothing there. But I figured this was just a trick, and the polymers were now in the soil.
As to more plastic than plankton: Bull! Can you prove it? No.
brainhell 5 years ago
Plastic disintegrates into smaller bits of plastic, but doesn't biodegrade into natural elements. And yes, marine biologists have proved it; I didn't use any statements that haven't been published in scientific journals. You don't see the plastic--it is broken down into compounds. The most toxic compounds are called phalates, which mimic estrogen, attract other toxins, and cause all sorts of health problems. In the North Pacific, the ratio of phalates to plankton is 4:1. Thanks for asking.
pennilesscripple 5 years ago
Yes, as I implied, I thought that the 'biodegradabke' plastic just fell apart into microscopic poison.
Your point on plakton is unconvincing. Are you saying the MASS of plasstic in the oceans is greater than the MASS of plankton? Impossible.
brainhell 5 years ago
I know it sounds hard to believe, but take up the argument with the marine biologists. I have no interest in lying about these matters, and if anything I said is in error, I'd be happy to correct it. All of our plastic eventually ends up in the ocean. Denying the problem doesn't make it go away. The data is readily available online. There is also a documentary that I'll try to get posted on YouTube.
pennilesscripple 5 years ago
Yes the plastics industry's propaganda has convinced people that there are new "environmentally friendly" and "biodegradable" plastics. There aren't. If anything, they are more harmful because they break down into toxins instead of remaining in one piece that might be more or less safely discarded. The Alqalita Marine Research Foundation states that the North Pacific gyre mentioned in the video holds 10 pounds of plastic for every pound of zooplankton. Off L.A., the ration is 2.5/1.
pennilesscripple 5 years ago
Google "plastic plankton" to get started if you are interested in this topic.
pennilesscripple 5 years ago
This seriously needs to be remade! It's a fantastic message that people ignor.
tripplehelix 5 years ago
Thank you very much--I'll work on it. The text is in the sidebar until then.
pennilesscripple 5 years ago
GREAT Message though.
oneiblind30 5 years ago
thank you very much. yes it is time to end plastic production--plastic literally never goes away. we will kill the oceans if we don't stop making it. we can act on the consumer level, but there also need to be radical changes on the corporate level.
pennilesscripple 5 years ago
I just don't agreee with that If you want change it HAS to start with you. You can't just go around asking someones boss to give up his lively hood if you arent willing to do the same. Make the radical changes with yourself, set the example for them to follow otherwise your message means nothing.
oneiblind30 5 years ago
I do make radical changes myself and set examples for others to follow. But the problem with plastic did not start with the ordinary person. It started with corporate greedmongers who found a way to make a quick buck at the expense of our health and our planet. If those are the bosses you are talking about, I seriously don't care about their "livelihood." We have had plastic forced down our throats--to say that we had a choice in the matter is to be seriously deluded.
pennilesscripple 5 years ago
Good video makes an awesome point I actually agree but fact is the machines you used to make this video are mostly plastic and crap <g> LOL SOrry Go MAC!
oneiblind30 5 years ago
I apologize for the double posting. Yes, the plastics industry has brainwashed the public into thinking plastic is indispensable, even though mankind was fine without it until very recently, so yes I have plastic in my world, as do we all, but I did not ask for it. Plastic production is using up the oil and killing the seas. I would gladly trade any "benefit" I might derive from plastic for healthy oceans. The very least we can do is boycott crap such as $80 inflatable snow globes.
pennilesscripple 5 years ago
The combination of the imagery and the background music generates quite a tense mood. The text was very difficult to read, maybe this was deliberate to force the viewer to concentrate on it more, or maybe bright red or blue would have been a better choice of colour. Overall, an effective way to get the message across.
paulnewson 5 years ago
the tension was quite deliberate, but the text dysfunction was accidental. i decided to leave it that way because of tech frustrations and the impending christmas season, and yes, i trusted it might add to the disturbing quality of the video. the text was quite readable before i uploaded it to YouTube, but Windows Movie Maker was freezing and crashing, so I abandoned ship. i may rework it at some point. thank you for your kind comments. (full text is in the sidebar)
pennilesscripple 5 years ago
Good video for info. Makes me think twice... which is twice more than normal.. the text was a little tough to read though.
Gimmeabreakman 5 years ago
I know--I kind of gave up on it, because Windows Movie Maker was freezing and crashing, and i didn't have the patience to go back and try to fix it. I might redo it at some point. I wanted to give the viewer a feeling of vertigo and disorientation, so i rationalized that the fuzzy text would add to that experience. guess not. yes think thrice please, and then take action. plastic production needs to stop now.
pennilesscripple 5 years ago
oh yeah and i neglected to mention that i posted the text in the sidebar
pennilesscripple 5 years ago
Looking at it now!
Gimmeabreakman 5 years ago