Oceans you may be able to walk on?

[packman]

"The best research currently available estimates that there are over 150 million tonnes (165 million tons) of plastics in the ocean today," the report reads. "In a business-as-usual scenario, the ocean is expected to contain 1 tonne (1.1 tons) of plastic for every 3 tonnes of fish by 2025, and by 2050, more plastics than fish (by weight)."

In other words, in just 34 years, plastic trash in the ocean will outweigh all the fish in the sea."

Remember walking along the pristine, trash-free beaches of the Outer Banks, North Carolina in the early 60's and then, in the late 70's -same area, same beach at low tide -plastic trash from the high tide line to the shore.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/oceans-plastic-fish-2050_us_569e9963e4b00f3e986327a0

[daleanime]

1. kick, kick, kick.....

[el_bryanto]

2. The Great Pacific Trash Pile

Subject of a pretty good, if inaccurate comic book (the comic book portrays it something you can stand on but in reality you can't).



Also the Gorillaz's album Plastic Beach. I hope we get our act together and fix this problem, but it seems unlikely.

Bryant

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. SMH.

[FLPanhandle]

4. There won't be any fish worth weighing in 30 years

At the rate we are overfishing the oceans, especially the Chinese, we are looking at dead oceans in our lifetime.

Way too many humans on this planet.