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By: john

john — Wed, 12 May 2010 02:17:02 +0000

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By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:51:50 +0000

This is a perfect example of what having a lack of conscience does to humanity. The focus is always on PRODUCTION of GOODS & not on the SAFETY of our environment. What we do to nature (which includes birds & the planet for those of you with no awareness) we do to OURSELVES! Every form of life on this planet is precious & should be treated so. Rather than being treated without regard and then saying “well it wasnt my fault so whats the big deal” only shows your lack of intelligence when it comes to your own humanity. People need to learn to take responsibility for the way they live their lives. Do these pictures not reveal that to you? Are you seriously that blind? Maybe next time you feel ill people should treat you the same way & say “well i didnt make you ill, so its not my fault, & maybe your faking it” & maybe then you’d realize the importance of being aware of our actions & the effects they have, not only on humanity but on our precious earth as well. Learn to THINK before you speak & before you act. Really, its not that hard. These pictures are atrocious & I sincerely hope (staged or not) that people will realize, really & truly the devastating effects that they represent. THANK YOU Mr. Chris Jordan for all your efforts!

By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:27:56 +0000

The great richness that was America, altruistic in its democracy, certain in its Empire-building, God given right to alter the world for good, even with military force in hegemonic notions, and Americans, xenophobic thrusters of their brand of good will as they see it upon the world, have a not so hidden sin in their affluenza – they poop out more plastic into the seas than all the rest of the world with their oil based nouveau riche excesses and kill the very nature they were born of! China and Canada pollute the air we breath, one by burning coal the other by selling it, and America pollutes the waterways and fills the seas with plastic pieces of doom for whole ecosystems! All this ends with the end of light sweet crude and the coal, and we then face the refuse of fission fires for eternity – save for a few intelligentsia from India who have thorium bed reactors that produce fission wastes that last only one hundred years – safer but slower, they will fade from economic realities of the Asian population explosion underway and even more plastics from remaining oil resources and even other sources -from plants come a variety of plastics to choke Mother Nature, and she will retaliate. Even her best virus, HIV those yet to be unlocked holds promise and she has more in store as folks die in hospitals with c.difficile, there is hope yet for clean air, clean seas, and clean rivers, but not from the scientists test tubes, eagerly bought by commerce for exploitation and mayhem. Nuclear war may reduce the burden on her garden and Mother Nature in her great craft, might allow it in the Middle East, just to teach the remnants of mankind how wrong they were, now neutered by fallout that does not affect her plant-world. Is this how we end? Skewered on our own sharp edge? N.B. China has birth control – the West does not! China has high efficiency reactors at the Tsinghua University campus that produce maximum output of Energy for a minimum waste output – the U.S. reactors are designed for producing weapons grade byproducts – primarily! China has more post graduates with I Q’s of over 130 than the U.S.A. has high school students, drop-outs included! China has more people on the net – 440 million than the U.S. has people – 330 Million! China has a larger English speaking population than the U.S. population! Sometimes facts speak louder than words and in this case, the plastic comes form oil rich affluenza in the West! A West that is shrinking in range of influence as we speak. Will the plastics deluge end when the West retires and retreats to a lesser lifestyle? Good Question? You Bet!

By: Carly

Carly — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:10:24 +0000

Staged or not, birds do eat plastic and such, their stomachs fill up with it then they starve to death. The stuff looks /feels to them like something edible. The same thing happens with things like balloons from balloon races. All each of us can do is watch out that we don’t create this kind of littering ourselves and clear up own our bit of space of litter that doesn’t decompose and is therefore not digestible by wildlife.

It happens in your backyard not just in the North Pacific, your back yard is a place where you can make a difference.