Island of Plastic Twice the size of Texas

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:15:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: PACIFIC OCEAN PLASTIC STEW ENDANGERING WORLD FOOD CHAIN

ENVIRONMENT / POLLUTERS FLOURISH UNDER THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION: "Environmental enforcement efforts by the U.S. EPA and the Justice Department have plummeted over the last five years, resulting in a 38 percent decline in criminal fines and a 25 percent drop in civil penalties, according to a new report from the nonprofit Environmental Integrity Project (EIP)."

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PACIFIC OCEAN PLASTIC STEW ENDANGERING WORLD FOOD CHAIN

A dead Ocean bird from a dying Pacific Ocean garbage patch that is growing and is now twice the size of Texas ~ and could well be contaminating our food chain: Allen L Roland

This is a must read story for it has dire implications for all human beings and especially mothers and newborn infants.

This story is a wake up call to the world that we must help and cooperate with one another, especially pursuant to polluting our oceans, if we are to survive as a human species.

Next time you look out at this beautiful Pacific ocean, as I often do, realize that there is a garbage patch of discarded plastic twice the size of Texas a few hundred miles away and its growing !

A vast swath of the Pacific, twice the size of Texas, is full of a plastic stew that is entering the food chain. Scientists say these toxins are causing obesity, infertility...and worse.

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Island of Plastic Twice the size of Texas