We Need to Take Better Care of this Planet.

ossian

ossian

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A whale found off the Norwegian coast had to be euthanised after scientists found 30 plastic bags in the creature’s stomach. The creature had been spotted last weekend and was clearly in poor health. The decision was made to euthanise the animal and when they carried out a post mortem, they discovered 30 plastic bags and other human waste in its stomach.

Estimates by the World Economic Forum suggest that by 2050 there will be more plastic bags by weight in the seas than there will be fish.

Sad, very sad. :cry:

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ossian said:
A whale found off the Norwegian coast had to be euthanised after scientists found 30 plastic bags in the creature’s stomach. The creature had been spotted last weekend and was clearly in poor health. The decision was made to euthanise the animal and when they carried out a post mortem, they discovered 30 plastic bags and other human waste in its stomach.

Estimates by the World Economic Forum suggest that by 2050 there will be more plastic bags by weight in the seas than there will be fish.

Sad, very sad. :cry:

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That is very sad. Those plastic bags are good for nothing but they keep producing and using them.
 
There is a massive "garbage dump" in the Pacific...just north of Hawaii...containing trillions of pieces of trash. Then, remnants of the Japanese Fukushima Tsunami, in 2011, are starting to wash up on the US and Canadian western shores. Human refuse and waste is building up in the oceans at an increasing pace, and many places that were once pristine now look like a floating landfill.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...eans-plastic-sea-trash-science-marine-debris/
 

Makes me want to cry. I didn't read the article.

I know about all the trash in the ocean. With technology can't it be removed. Or are we too busy with war and everything else. We are supposed to be the intelligent ones and look what we do.
 
Seems to me, taking care of the environment is not as important to folks as it used to be. I just wish we were progressing a lot more. My husband has an electric car, and loves he is no longer guzzling fuel. I always bring my own bags to the store. I heard about that story on the news and it was very sad to hear. But the coal producers and oil pipeline people do not care a lot about the environmental impact. Just the bottom line.
 
The pollution of the air and water is definitely something that needs to stop or slow down, I hate when the animals suffer for the carelessness of humans
 
I am very careful what I do in my garden and home, I recycle everything I can, I garden totally organically and I compost everything that will break down. I buy organic food and cleaners where I can although it is not so easily available as I would like. I could carry a banner in a demonstration for this topic and I could get very hot under the collar when I hear of folks who just disregard it all. It really tests the pacifist in me when I see a neighbor pouring weed killer all over his lawns, Grrhh
 
I try to garden for wildlife and put out birdseed, a hummingbird feeder and water on my place. I didn't even get a single Monarch actually flying onto my property this year, other than from the eggs and caterpillars that I obtained from the city to raise. It's sad, really. My place is safe for them, since it's organic.
 
I always buy the store's cloth bag (One from each store I patronize) and take some of them into the store with me.

THE CASHIER (or I) fill the bags with my purchased items.

I can't remember the last time I had to buy (10¢) a plastic bag.
 
I cureently live in a bit of a wildlife idyll too

Linda W. said:
I try to garden for wildlife and put out birdseed, a hummingbird feeder and water on my place. I didn't even get a single Monarch actually flying onto my property this year, other than from the eggs and caterpillars that I obtained from the city to raise. It's sad, really. My place is safe for them, since it's organic.
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I'm currently living in a bit of a wildlife idyll due to my father's "visionary" organic policies on the family farm in the UK, south of Manchester too (in truth my dad probably followed organic policies mostly by default I guess, and as youngsters my brother and I criticised his reluctance to use any artificial fertilisers, though I use them very sparingly now too).

My father used to allow the ringing of swallows in his buildings, and owl boxes are still cared for by the local group responsible even after his death last year.

It does shock you every time you here of all the stuff dumped in the oceans and the harm its bound to do, and I suppose we're all partly to blame for not caring enough (certainly I didn't think about it much until recent years). Now I am pleased to follow using re-useable bags etc. (when I remember admittedly :eek:).

A great Irish broadcaster now sadly deceased, Terry Wogan had a very subtle comment to say about environmental policies though, pointing out that WWII was pretty disasterous environmentally, as is any war, so our planet takes a pounding when nations fall out inevitably!
 
I remember discussions on the radio, people freaking over the prospect of no more plastic bags. Some people called in and stated Europe was doing it for years but people thought is was un-doable. When the town I live in stopped using plastic bags in grocery stores and charging 10 cents for paper or reusable bags (some may be .25) people adjusted very quickly. By that time I had been using my own bags for about 10 years.

On rare occasions when I buy a bag, I use it to take things to PAWS thrift or it's the best 10 cent cat toy ever.
 

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