Ask 'em.
Hotel giant doing away with mini-toiletries.
How wide spread is this issue? The study was done on coastal birds in Australia. Where does the ocean plastic that hits Australia come from? The article claims that no matter how much or how little plastic is ingested, it didn't seem to matter. That leads me to ask the confidence that they're actually looking at the growth issues being a problem of the plastic. That wouldn't seem to track.
It's in drinking water around the world.
I was specifically asking how wide spread the bird issue is.Leisher wrote: It's in drinking water around the world.
Seabirds being affected by plastic in our oceans around the world is a known issue and discussed in the article.Vince wrote:I was specifically asking how wide spread the bird issue is.Leisher wrote: It's in drinking water around the world.
What makes this more fun is we are also eating plastic.Nearly every seabird on earth is eating plastic; around 90% are carrying the material in their stomachs, according a WWF report last year that supported previous studies.
Possibly, but they haven't shown birds outside of the area they studied are suffering from these specific issues. I grant as a given that birds everywhere are probably eating some plastic. Since they've already stated it doesn't matter how much or how little plastic ingested causes these issues, then these specific issues should be easily shown to be occurring everywhere.Leisher wrote:[
Seabirds being affected by plastic in our oceans around the world is a known issue and discussed in the article.
Pshaw.
I very much hope you're wrong. It'd be nice if science found solutions for pollution since humans refuse to do shit about it.
Only thing to do is wipe out most of the 3rd world. NEVER going to fix problems from those areas. They're going to pump plastics into the water a million times faster than micro plastic machines are going to clean it up.
Someone has also developed a bacteria that eats plastic, but I think it's still in research to make sure it only eats plastic and what the side effects could/will be.
Here's something we can 100% agree upon. If you reduced the population by 50% overnight, that would honestly go father towards helping the environment than anything else.
The green extremists have been agreeing with your stance here for a long time.
It's been mainstream for a while. This goes back to my saying they've been lying so long that many don't listen to them anymore. Paul Ehrlich had the number at one billion, I think, when mass starvation would occur. I think his best selling book came out in the late 60's. Today we're at 7x that population and global obesity is a bigger issue than global starvation.GORDON wrote: It's mainstream, now. Every day we're getting bombarded with "point of no return" apocalyptica. That we're going to destroy humanity on earth. And then people say save the turtles? Tells me if they're right then there's no hope, and there's also no one sane with a plan running the show.
And it took me a while to become inured to the idea that not every human deserves to breed.