The Great Pacific Garbage Patch - In The Middle Of The Pacific Ocean! - Part 3 of 4

http://bitly.com/g95U0 - Oprah Shines Light On Great Pacific Garbage Patch
http://bitly.com/PEeer Toxic Garbage Dump - VBS.TV
Currently, scientists believe the world's largest garbage dump isn't on land...it's in the Pacific Ocean. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch stretches from the coast of California to Japan, and it's estimated to be twice the size of Texas. Years of bottles, bags, toys, packaging and plastic trash from all corners of the Earth are swirling in a plastic whirlpool in the North Pacific. Discarded water bottles from Iowa, takeout containers from New York City, flip-flops from California and plastic debris from the world over make their way from land into storm drains, streams, rivers and other waterways. They are carried out sea, where they get trapped in swirling ocean currents - forming a giant, floating trash dump of an enormous proportion - no matter how you quantify it.

It saddens me to have watched these videos and to find out "WE" have known about this for TEN YEARS and seem to be doing nothing! This Plastic Garbage Dump that is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean collecting all the plastic debris and litter from the world is getting bigger every year. It's now so big that it seems that it's too much for us to clean up, and scientists say that the ocean is cleansing itself little by little, evidenced by the plastics on our beaches, but if we continue to litter and not recycle our plastics it will only get worse.

If watching these videos doesn't motivate you to NOT litter or dump any more plastic, stop buying bottled water, and throw the plastic CAPS away (since nobody recycles them), and NEVER throw another piece of plastic bag, bottle, ball, toothbrush, cup, toy, or anything plastic carelessly away again, then you don't deserve to be an inhabitant of this planet, period! Harsh, I know, but think of the rest of us sharing this planet with you. If all the creatures in the ocean die, so do we, get it?

Sincerely,
http://www.DaveDube.com

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[MoonKnightDirk]

Give a pig a plastic bag, the pig throws the bag on the street.

[scottie0904]

Yeah, the earth can't contain the human population, that's true! but it would be a truly terrible thing if our species were to become extinct.

We do a lot of harmful things but we're also (afawk) the only species to have been able to actually understand why we, and everything else is here.. we don't have all the answers yet, but it's possible we could.

As Carl Sagan said, 'We are a way for the universe to know itself' -

There's a lot of good in this world, people have to wake up and see it

[wholecake]

@adventurediversneil Well, since you and I comprise the "government", then I guess we should start cracking down on ourselves an start taking responsibility. You know freedom and responsibility are synonymous really.

[f22videos]

He is a start for you. Begin by installing a screens on all runoffs into all major rivers and streams. If the "screens" are well thought they could be engineered to collect and store plastics and trash, then easily collected and recycled. I have ideas for the design and could make rough blueprints if needed.

[adventurediversneil]

The government need to crack down on companies producing so much plastic garbage! why do things need to have so much packaging? why use plastics that dont break down? use other corn made plastics that do break down after a much smaller time frame. All boils down to money and companies making their packaging with the cheapest expense in mind and NOT THE ENVIRONMENT!!

[StephanieLisaTara]

HAIKU

I hatch! Crawl! And swim!

Oh how I love my sweet life,

Don't litter my home.

—A Green Sea Turtle

[huijijui]

@griessinthewood you see so many diseases in the world. my best friend died from disease. I knew for a long time that plastic was one of the main causes. I watched this, and I realized I could have done something about it. I would say "fuck" i would curse myself. Not only that, there is no way to keep that from happening to other people. We depend on plastic so much, that there is no longer any way to fix this. so fuck. shit. whatever other word because we're so FUCKING HELPLESS.

[Akita2323]

this is sad :(

[unicron24]

remember glass beach in fort bragg ca?they cleaned it up but theres still engine blocks and sparkplugs inside of rocks..

[imagineEMMA]

Isn't the point of this video to make us aware of what we're doing to the ocean with our NEED to use plastic for everything? Who cares if they swear or speak a different language. Do you see what the water looks like? I think we need to eliminate as much plastic use as possible. This will never go away, but we could try our best to stop adding to the disgusting mess we've created in our beautiful oceans.

[griessinthewood]

@griessinthewood Knowledge has nothing to do with intelligence therefore language is irrelevant to intelligence. OK we're clear on the language part. Where do you think all of that plastic comes from? What language is spoken in the target country that such a documentary will have the greatest impact? Where is this UofO? What is the language spoken there? My brother got his masters at the university of frieburg. You better know german to go there. You have missed my point completely