merry plastic christmas

Music: "Pigs in Space" by Mickey Hart

Here's the text:

Virtually every piece of plastic produced is still on the planet.

There is no such thing as "biodegradable" plastic.

Plastic takes from 400 to 1 million years to disintegrate.

Even then, it is still plastic.

All plastic migrates toxins into whatever it touches.

Toxins in plastic are linked to cancer, birth defects, and organ damage.

If you live in North America, you eat plastic.

You breathe plastic.

You drink plastic.

You pee plastic.

You have plastic in your bloodstream.

Over 46,000 plastic fragments float on every square mile of ocean.

Our seas now hold more plastic than plankton.

A 3-million-ton mass of plastic trash swirls in a gigantic eddy in the North Pacific Ocean.

It is bigger than Texas.

Over one million seabirds and over 100,000 sea mammals die each year from eating or being trapped in plastic trash.

Please don't buy plastic crap.

Merry Plastic Christmas.

Peace on our beleaguered Earth.

Category:

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• destroying
• planet
• express
• Christmas
• spirit
• stop
• plastic
• crap
• madness
• pennilesscripple

[ItsFilthy]

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.

[pennilesscripple]

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.

[runnygrits]

I absolutely love this comment penni. I cannot express it enough.

[pennilesscripple]

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]

yay glad to hear that

[dazedANDtruckin]

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 =)

[pennilesscripple]

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.

[dazedANDtruckin]

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

[pennilesscripple]

thanks for visiting, jogayot

if we don't stop the destruction of the planet, there won't be any archaeologists to document these times