The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
The environmentalist in me can’t resist posting about this: There seems to be a Texas size plastic garbage dump floating north of hawaii… Anyone for a swim?
This isn’t news to those who have been following the environment for the past few years, but to me – this is a big deal. There is a fourpart documentary on this site (which I plan to see shortly)... here is a quote from the site:
“For years we’ve been reading about a patch of garbage the size of Texas floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, ingeniously dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Basically, any trash that gets dumped in the water rides the currents to this one spot and joins an ever-increasing flotilla of crap. For all the breathless accounts of the mess and its impact on the area’s sealife, however, no one seemed to have a picture of the buildup.
In order to sate our own curiosity, VBS joined the crew of a research vessel studying the trash and sailed out into one of the most remote spots of open water in the world, the North Pacific Gyre, in search of this mythical garbage island. What we discovered once we got there was an ecological disaster beyond any of our expectations and possibly the single worst thing human beings have done to the planet and ourselves.”
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sounds interesting. shouldnt this be found on google maps?
— tim 06/09/2008 06:30 PM #After a little more looking into it on my part it doesn’t sound that interesting anymore. They will show a photo of this “texas sized” garbage patch right after they show a village of bigfoots in Montana.
There is a reason all the photos of “garbage patch” are all zoomed in on small detail.
Do we really need to start inventing ecological disasters?
— Tim 06/10/2008 01:58 PM #Apparently we do, we made up anthropogenic global warming didn’t we? ;)
— Matt 06/17/2008 10:14 AM #