Plastic Soup for the Soul

on the wane of a day in celebration of creation's many earthly miracles, consider this.

excerpts from NPR broadcast interviews with Captain Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation and Adam Walters, consulting scientist for Greenpeace International Research Lab.

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[Samadhiatman500]

Tragic. I am definitely cutting my use of plastic to a bare-minimum. I am ashamed I have been using it as long as I have been. Thanks for the video.

[Plomomedia]

@Samadhiatman500 interesting comment. I think we all sort of are waking up to the fact that, oh crap, i've been part of a terrible problem and never knew it. btw, i may do a remake of this video soon, in larger format and with a little variation in the shots.

[calistadelacruz]

i like the last statement, "I find it an irony that a product that lasts forever is used for seconds, then tossed."

[LucidOwl]

Friends, it is vital that we change our bad habits. I have done so by not drinking water from plastic bottles, instead I drink filtered tap water and store it in an aluminum bottle. Not only do plastic bottles pollute our environment, but they also pollute our body with BPA (bisphenol A).

[LeviVdBogaard]

@prettywitty77 Congratulations. That's the attitude that's going to get us somewhere as a race.

[a2tis]

i'm not talking about plastic's effect on our biology, but about the chance of plastic getting into our bodies through fish. no one proved that, no one even tried to...

[Plomomedia]

it is not that I'm unwilling to consider the possibility that plastic has no adverse effect on our biology (although if I recall correctly a study done in Japan showed higher rates of miscarriage/cancer/etc among women with high levels of bisphenol A); it's an issue of risk management because the potential of ecological collapse too great a concern not to change current manufacturing policy.

[a2tis]

irrational fear mongering can be dangerous too: if you say marijuana causes aggressiveness, after realizing this is a lie, at least some people will think they've been lied about tobacco causing cancer and will decide smoking is ok. the same here: if you say don't eat fish cause it's polluted - after realizing this is not based on any evidence, at least some will think any polluted food is ok...

anyway, don't mind me too much, keep doing your stuff, you're really good at it.

[a2tis]

you're a talented filmmaker. just watched a few more of your videos and realized you're more about poetic or intuitive truths, not scientific ones. just a pity this video does not contain both.