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It’s a rumor that we hoped would never be confirmed: at least 1,700 miles of plastic trash is floating in what is commonly known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Up until this point, scientists only had a vague idea of the scope of the trash they would find in the North Pacific Gyre, a vortex where four ocean currents meet. Isolated patches have been reported by sailors and fishermen, but now researchers, sailors, journalists, and government officials on a nearly four-week journey through the gyre say that plastic shards and netting abound in a space bigger than the state of Texas
Flotsom & Jetsam

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The title of the project refers to Thor Heyerdal's Kontiki Expedition undertaken in 1947. In the same way that the Kontiki Expedition challenged existing assumptions about past civilisations, it is intended that The Plastiki Expedition will change attitudes towards the world's oceans, the whole idea of waste and the increasingly unacceptable reality of pollution.

The Pastiki Epedition

The Plastiki set sail on 20 March 2010 upon a three-month voyage of 11,000 nautical miles from San Francisco to Sydney via the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.[37] Rothschild has used Twitter to update followers on how the voyage is progressing.[37]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Paci ... bage_Patch

I have trucked this country from
From border to border
Sea to sea

A million miles


All that I have seen
I loved

And despaired
For all the warehouses filled with miles of aisles of consumer goods
Factory assembly lines
Marching beer cans and coke bottles
Plastic milk jugs
Paper rolling in endless streams
Automobiles bumper to bumper

A cornucopia of consumption
A disease called man
A swarm of locusts
Sucking up resources
To be returned to the land and waters
As garbage

we are born with nothing
we do everything we can to accumulate
we leave with nothing
collision crash of unclaimed things
beget and beget
exponential dump heap

I been thinking about myself as a man of property. The only property I was born with. Life. I have the property of life. Going to have to give that property up when I leave.

I read this bit yesterday that really cheered me up.

"But that is all right, that is not a problem. We should be very grateful to have a limited body...like mine, or like yours. If you had a limitless life it would be a real problem for you"
— Zen Mind, Beginners mind.—

We Beget and beget
Children for the millennial
To pursue and beget of their property too.


In the meantime I wonder how much garbage I have contributed to that gyre of garbage.

I'm not sure I grasp exactly how much plastic waste that is, but it'll take awhile. I'm ruffled up over those plastic soda carriers for 6-packs, I go nuts cause they can strangle small animals. I break up any I find littered (especially found in parks). And I've mentioned before I get ticked over the garbage orbiting space, this plastic wasteland will be a similar grr moment.

I do recycle, prolly most of all my plastic bottles, jars and cans, but I fail at recycling card board--I think cause it's a pita to flatten for the most part. All of that sounds stupid to say that way.

Maybe I just do what's convenient, and don't bother with what's taxing. Not a pretty picture.

I was going to start a new thread with this

Myths of Skepticism.
Myth #9: Skepticism makes one less vulnerable to errors of reasoning or illogic.
http://www.rpi.edu/~sofkam/talk/talk.html

Not sure what it it has to do with all this. I just did not feel like starting a new thread after-all.

Yes mostly I do what is convenient too. Everything is so convenient these days. Sometimes convenience seems so inconvenient to me.

Americans, we probably produce more garbage that any other country.

I think I remember reading somewhere that trash is our biggest export.

The Story of Stuff — The Materials Economy

The Century of the Self

Happiness Machines

http://www.angelfire.com/hi3/pearly/htm ... bbels.html

"the golden arrow of consumption."