You may be right nothing may never come of it. But if you are wrong then we are fucked.
granted, but careful and intelligent moves are always better than the panicked stampede of a frightened herd.
Well they are trying to ban plastic not based on health risks for humans(Although plastic breaking down in to micro particles and being absorbed in to fish is a health risk),
i have yet to see any evidence of plastice being "absorbed into fish" i i have seen is fish swallowing plastic (which does them no harm, the entire artificial lure industry is based on a fish's eagerness to swallow anything) and a few sea birds who feed plastic bits to their young instead of food, which is NOT harmless, but as far as i can tell, also not an epidemic.
more so on environmental impact. They take so long to decompose and when it does decompose it becomes more dangerous to the environment.
the baby birds fed plastic do not die from poisoning, they die from starvation because plastic aint food, but their parents think it is.
plastic decomposes like everything else, it breaks down into it's component molecules, which are hydrogen oxygen carbon and trace elements, and renters the ecosystem where it came from in the first place (remember oil is old dinosaur shit). very few plastics maintain their status as long chain hydrocarbons (petrochemicals) after they start falling apart. it is the very act of degradation that makes modern plastics safer for the environment than the old school eternal, stable, lasting longer than the universe plastics. ptfe (teflon) is one of those few eternal plastics still in use, but ptfe is INERT. you could swallow a pound of the stuff and all youll do is take a big plastic shit after a few days of discomfort and gas.
If they told me some how cloth bags are a health risk to me or the environment, I guess I would look for other alternatives. Most of the paper bags now days are 40-60 % recycled material and the rest coming from sustainable forests. I call bums mother natures little helpers, Saving earth one can at a time. lol
until you visit a forest where bums have been squatting. or they squat in your feild. or they squat in your neighborhood.
admittedly many of the "homeless' are slightly mentally unbalanced, on the skids, or have chosen the lifestyle for themselves, but these cats are actually the LEAST damaging to the environment (both human and natural) because the outdoors is their home, and they try to keep their shit on the low-low.
the remaining portion are crackheads tweakers, junkies, criminals on the run from thel aw, or just plain shitheels. these fuckers make a mess everywhere they go.
I understand how you would react when something new comes up that is is based on the environment or health. But you can't think everybody is wrong all the time. People lived under high output power lines for years and thought there was no problem. Until they discovered the cancer rate was high. Or the banning of sassafrass, people thought it was fine, until they found it gives cancer to lab rats. My point is, just cause something doesn't feel like it is effecting you now, doesn't mean it is not effect you. I also understand just cause something doesn't feel like it's effecting doesn't mean it is.
i do not disbelieve based on the assumption that every hippie is a liar, i disbelieve because extraordinary claims require extraordinary eviudence, and the claims made, when examined do not match the evidence. when the claimant must fabricate evidence and lie through his teeth to try to make his case, his case is invariably too weak to stand without the lies.
also,
powerlines and electromagnetic fields in general do not cause brain cancer. that was disproved.
sassafras was banned based on one study. turns out that study was fatally flawed. every subsequent study has shown that sassafras is NOT toxic.
it may also interest you to know that "marijuana" or "cannabis" is also not toxic, non carcinogenic and non addictive. despite the claims to the contrary.
when a claim requires lies faleshoods, deception and fraud to make it stand, the claim is not only suspect, it is almost invariably BULLSHIT.
From nothern cali, but live in southern cali now. I also watch bering sea gold. I would do either. But going in the ocean sucking up dirt seems cheaper then going about it on land. lets hit up the klondike and get rich lol.
theres gold to be panned in southern california too. the big placer fields run out north of sacramento, but me and my grandpappy often went gold panning in the high desert, the south central valley, death valley and the mojave. thers gold out ther son. bring a big tub of water to wash your soil in, and dump the damp, sifted dirt back to the environment. you can keep using the same water all day till it becomes mud. it works, and we found gold that way.
So you do agree that it does exist, and there is tiny plastic flakes floating out in the ocean , just not being broken down on the surface?
nope. the plastic flakes are nuetrally bouyant. the bouyant shit floats to the surface and wind takes it to shore, the heavy shit sinks. all thats left is stuff drifting in the thermal layers. from the surface you cant see shit other than ordinary flotsam. the pacific gyre "plastic soup" does not exist as claimed.
the story is made of too many tall tales to be true, and like all good tall tales you cant prove a negative, so you cant prove their story is a lie without tedious and easily ignored science. big splashy headlines, doomsaying and predictions of the end of all life are much better news copy, so thats the story that sells papers. (or websites and shitty fake documentaries)
