The Plastic Continent

[Jack]

It's not an actual island. The ocean is soupy and filed with tiny bits of plastic. I think I read somewhere that there are twice as many plastic pieces as plankton in some parts. Fish and other marine life confuse the plastic bits for food and eat them often times dying for their mistake.

6 times.

I'm a little disappointed, I also thought it was an actual floating mass. The problem with stuff like this is that it's very hard to think about it. It's the same mechanic in our brain that keeps us from getting overwhelmingly depressed over the fact that people all over the world are dieing every second. We don't really hear about it (people didn't even know this was real or not until this thread), see it, and it doesn't effect our everyday lives.

This will most likely always be a problem, unless human beings stop using plastic completely. Which, well... I likes my Pepsi, and fuck a paper grocery bag. So... yeah.