There's just too much darn plastic everywhere. Once it gets in the ocean, it doesn't leave. That stuff will be constipating fish and zooplankton long after the E.P.A. mandates that all plastic products be made out of stuff that doesn't contain any plastic. I say take all the plastic waste and throw it in with all the nuclear waste in some mountain in a country we don't take kindly to (but we should put a lock on a fence around the mountain so the bad guys don't make terrorist trinkets with all that junk). The real problem is that there are just too many people messing up the planet (as usual). Weisman didn't mention Wal-Mart by name as an entity messing up the planet (not to mention such nice neighborhoods as Inglewood), but I bet he sure wanted to. Of course, I personally have nothing against Wal-Mart except for all those darn shoppers that keep getting in my way while I'm trying to buy stuff. To sum it all up: we are all going to die and take out a whole bunch of biomass in the process because of our [as a species] gross and negligent industrializational [spiffy new word, eh?] by-products and plastic. But once we are all dead and really long, long, long gone but before the sun goes super-charged-Nova (which is just plain silly and a waste of money and gas) and fries our dearly beloved planet to a crisp memory: THEN the earth will be a truly great place to live or at least vacation.
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