More Plastic In the Oceans Than Fish

                                               A recent documentary that aired regarding the remote island of Midway and plastic, asserted that by the year 2050 there will be more plastic by weight in the oceans than the total weight of fish. Already there is probably more plastic in the ocean by volume than fish. Many albatrosses on Midway are dying from plastics, which certain albatross species cannot distinguish from fish and squid. Many albatross young are dying from the plastics that their parents mistake for fish and squid and feed to their chicks.
                                               This is not natural selection, which one person suggested. This is outright destruction. The toxic stew of plastics, including Styrofoam and other poisons, are not biodegrading. Rather, they break down to smaller sizes, which are almost indestructible. Nano plastic particles have been proven to be able to penetrate cell membranes. How much plastic and other man made toxins now exists in the tissues of marine life? How about in the marine mammals that eat fish? How about in the humans that eat fish and marine mammals? A huge number of people rely on fish.
                                                The documentary stated that China is the biggest source of plastic entering the oceans, followed by Indonesia and then the Philippines. Every day tons of plastic, Styrofoam, and other oil based poisoning products enter the ocean. If the Pacific dies, human existence will be put in jeopardy.
                                                 While nations engage each other in nationalistic and religious nonsense, the real threats to human existence continue to be ignored. The world refuses to address with the same urgency ecological threats as it does perceived military, religious, and nationalistic threats, and continues to ignore the ecological threats that peril us all.