Seas of Plastic Rapture
Posted on Monday, October 8, 2007You doubt we’re destroying the beautiful planet in our care?
Have a look at what Mr Darwin is saying.
Have a look at this on Paddyanglican as well.
Stumble it!
Stumble it!
Stumble it!
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October 8th, 2007
They had a whole week of articles about it in the LA Times a few months ago. It was one of the most depressing things I ever read. We’ve done a few things to minimize our trash since then but when I look at what we throw out each week it seems we need to do a lot more. Just about everything comes wrapped in some sort of plastic.
We use cloth shopping bags now because we were chucking away about 15-20 plastic grocery bags in a week. The other thing we did, which I think made a bigger difference was that we just stopped buying soda in bottles. We crush and recycle all our cans and take tap water out with us in old bottles.
They seemed like big inconvenient changes at the time but now I can hardly see why because our new routines are just habitual now and we never think of them. When I think of the crap we - a 6 person household - go through every week and how much of it gets put in the bin, I’m ashamed of myself. The nappies we went through alone when the twins were babies was horrific. All I want to do is stuff my fingers in my ears and go lalalalala. But it’s gone way beyond that now and we just have no choice but to stare it in the face and do something about it. I wish they would show the pictures of the choked oceans and the effects of changing climate on the news every single night as a matter of course because we need it in our faces the whole time in order to make even the simplest changes to our lifestyle. That weeklong series of articles did it for me but I still need someone on my case to get me to shape up about things like turning lights off. I drive a Prius (gas/electric hybrid) which saves me a lot of gas but I’m so shit at the light thing that my husband bought me a switchplate for the bedroom with “Turn the Fucking Lights Out! on it. It has helped, but it shouldn’t have taken me another bit of plastic to remember it.
God, it’s so fucking depressing, it really is.
October 8th, 2007
Bock: Thanks for highlighting this.
Problemchildbride: If you really want to be depressed, have a look at the movie Who Killed The Electric Car. It’s a sad film about corporations taking away people’s much-loved EV-1 cars.
October 9th, 2007
Interesting to see no fewer than three low-O2 dead zones off of Ireland.Didn’t expect that.
October 9th, 2007
First I watched the Last Winter, it’s a depressing and scary movie. Then I read a post on wisewebwoman’s blog, and then last night I watched the Inconvenient Truth, all within the same week. We have been feeling the effects of our own doing, very much so, in Australia for the last few years especially with temperatures soaring, the rain not falling and when it does falling in all the catchment areas or where it counts the most, or raining long enough to make a difference. Just simply flowing into the sea or evaporating quickly. Water restrictions in Sydney have been in affect for a long time.
It’s good to see that in Dublin there is more variety of recyclables being collected and more effort into recycling.
I think we all have to do the little bit that we can, and it adds up, but can we slow it down let alone stop it altogether when big industries, corporations and countries with huge populations are doing the opposite???
And who thinks one second that there isn’t the technology to create more energy efficient and less polluting alternatives to everything, especially cars… But that won’t happen no Sir, until we have completely shited on the planet and used up all the oil. How else can they maintain their profits and their industries?????? Science has never been able to work in one direction, the overall good of nature and us, rather than vs.
October 9th, 2007
Thanks for that Bock - did you check out the prank video clip on that posting re the whole ‘Left Behind’ madness - well worth a look? Made me laugh on a wet and miserable afternoon in Dingle (at a conference - roll on dinner and a seisun mor to follow (should be fadas there somewhere)! Like all good Prods my Irish is abysmal ;-)
October 9th, 2007
You wouldn’t be alone there Stephen, though I have to say that my Prod friends tend to be a whole lot better at the language than everyone else I know.