MERMAIDS' TEARS : OCEAN OF PLASTIC

"Over the last few decades the sea has become our garbage dump. We pour 6 million tonnes of garbage into it per year, 80% of which is plastic. Every square metre of every sea and ocean on this planet now contains tens of thousands of bits of plastic. This plastic kills and maims thousands of seabirds and sea mammals each year. Scientists are warning of the scale of this pollution in all of the world's oceans. In Holland a researcher has found plastic in the stomachs of 95% of fulmars, a type of seabird. Micro-particles of plastic abound on all of the world's beaches. A zone where the garbage accumulates has been discovered in the middle of the Pacific, a plastic 'soup' swallowed by fish and plankton. Chemicals released by plastics disturb the endocrine system. They are to be found in the blood of us humans." - Director : Sandrine FEYDEL - Images : Jean-Christophe CHENEAU- Chief Editor : Guillaume QUIGNARD - VIA DECOUVERTES Production audiovisuelle - www.viadecouvertes.fr

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[TheSoulDoubt]

...but what really makes me want to puke my entire spinal column out onto my keyboard is that in nearly 8 months u have 257 views and its the same for absolutely every video on utube of any worth, value, consequence or importance :( Start your videos (reminding everybody of their imminent fate if they do not change how they live) with some mindless or mendacious trash to capture peoples attention, because having any kind of decent future for ourselves or our children obviously isn't enough!

[TheSoulDoubt]

Have a friend currently researching the impact of micro-plastic particles on invertebrate marine life. I think its kind of inevitable that all the crap we dump everywhere is going to have a negative impact and believing otherwise is just wishful thinking...and more convenient for us all, allays any guilt...