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the great pacific garbage patch

We're not even at the stage where doing the wrong thing is against the law, nor is creating international law a talking point. Then there'll be a whole other era of how to get the main contributing nations to not only comply with the laws, but help with cleanup. We still have 500 years before the great garbage avalanche, so it's gonna be around for a minute.
 
byke said:
We're not even at the stage where doing the wrong thing is against the law, nor is creating international law a talking point. Then there'll be a whole other era of how to get the main contributing nations to not only comply with the laws, but help with cleanup. We still have 500 years before the great garbage avalanche, so it's gonna be around for a minute.
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Well maybe. I'm more optimistic that social change can happen more quickly than that. The fastest way for change to happen is within a market. We are dependant on buying and selling and that is fine. If the collective "we" demand and pay for environmentaly friendly products and practices, someone will be more than happy to earn a living providing them.

Do you remember when big macks came in styrofoam clamshells? It didn't take 500 years for those to go away. Leadership, education and rabble rousing works to make change happen.
 
I'm with you on the "can" part in the sense that I "can" win the lottery, but it's not likely to happen in my lifetime. Think about the scope and more importantly, the interests of those involved, in the difference between the small local stuff versus global ocean dumping. Every nation that traverses the ocean regularly isn't going to be onboard with storing their garbage and dumping it. Each vessel loses space for people and/or product and/or time at sea, reducing efficiency on every single boat on every single trip. The expense run deeeeeeeeep for billion dollar industries and that expense would get passed onto you and I. Prices of products go up, oil/gas and even data transmission goes up. It could happen intelligently, but you'd have to convince immoral and unintelligent people to lose money and add complexity because it's the right thing to do.
 
Thanks Guatemala... fuckers.

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I think this is a naming issue. Pacific Garbage Patch is off-putting. Rename it the Bikini Island Baby Animal Pro Sports BBQ and Nacho Cheese Preserve and the public will demand it be cleaned up immediately and new laws about waste in packaging for consumer products.
 
gotta brand it first

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Mike95060 said:
The crazy awsome thing about humans is we CAN recognize a problem and work to fix it. Provided we dont engage in willfull ignorance, stick our heads in the sand and say, "Naaaa. It's all good gimme, gimme, gimme mine, mine, mine fuck the future I need it easy NOW!" I mean what could be better than sipping a coke from a straw right?
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We are our own worst enemy.

Sad but true.
 
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