Out of sight, is indeed, out of mind. With a pressure-cooker lifestyle that today’s modern living dictates, and a cancerous-culture desensitized to things natural, it is a little wonder we see virtually all around us, the eerie absence of other living species with their unique “ vibrational” marker from mother nature
In every singular pocket of concrete jungle “aka” cities, sprawled across the planet, a frightening signature surfaces. Synthetic-sterile-and-subtly-savage! Our bizarre, unending honeymoon with plastics shows its scares in places as far of as Antarctica, inflicting deadly damage to millions of life forms, some almost as old as Mother-Earth herself
Styrofoam packaging, discarded flip-flops, plastic bags, straws - and lots of tiny packets that once contained single-servings of everything from shampoo to food, all finding their way into the world’s oceans
The amount of plastics in the world’s oceans is rising by the millions of tones unless action is taken to deal with the problem, according to a major new report.
Scientists warned that plastic is one of the major issues facing the world’s seas, while highlighting other key threats including rising sea levels, warming oceans and metal and chemical pollution.
Our oceans are slowly turning into a plastic soup and the effects on ocean life are chilling. Big pieces of plastic are choking and entangling turtles and seabirds and tiny pieces are clogging the stomachs of creatures who mistake it for food, from tiny zooplankton to whales. Plastic is now entering every level of the ocean food chain and even ending up in the seafood on our plates.
Scientists across the globe are increasingly finding wildlife that has been killed after ingesting or becoming entangled in plastic. Ninety percent of sea birds, for example, have been found to have plastic in their bellies. And the problem is only getting worse:
The estimated 19 billion pounds of plastic that ends up in the ocean every year is expected to double by 2025. These plastics will not only kill more animals; they’ll decimate coral reefs, and damage human health as microplastics enter the food chain. They’ll create more and bigger dead zones where nothing can live, harm biodiversity, and change ecosystems. There will likely be additional, unknown impacts; researchers have only been studying ocean plastics for less than two decades.
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SOURCE Credit: https://newrepublic.com/article/147988/global-crisis-plastic-pollution
http://www.dw.com/en/multinationals-polluting-oceans-with-plastic-in-the-philippines/a-40638102
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/yves-engler/plastic-marine-life_b_14511932.html?guccounter=1
PICTURE Credit: Möwe mit Plastik - Foto: David Cayless/Marine Photobank
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