Turning The Oceans Into A Sewer As Life Goes On As Usual

   Everyday more plastic enters the oceans by the tons. Everyday means that our environment is further degraded and destroyed. This means real wealth is not being created. Real wealth is disappearing. And yet life goes on as usual, as people disregard this very threat to our health, well being and survival.
   It is unfortunate that technology in some realms has advanced, leaving people to believe that humanity has advanced. The oceans and earth cannot be turned into a sewer, no matter how far technology advances.
    It is unfortunate that the ability to not contaminate remains primitive and poorly advanced. A few small steps here and there may make people feel good, but it does not address the problem. It makes things worse if people think the small steps are a sign of improvement and cause for complacency.
    The fact is that day in and day out, tons of garbage pours into the oceans. Especially from regions of the world that are densely populated and lack the capacity to pick up and properly dispose of plastics and other non biodegradable garbage (China, Indonesia, and the Philippines, in that order, are the biggest sources of plastics into the Pacific). Little is being done to stop this destruction. Much of the plastics and non biodegradables break down into too small to recover particles that are extremely dangerous to life. The amount of plastics and other non biodegradables entering the oceans daily far exceeds all cleanup efforts. Furthermore, cleanup efforts, including utilizing ocean currents, do not capture the millions of tons of plastics and other non biodegradables that have broken down into small particles.
      This has to move massively beyond the small steps. The improper disposal of plastics and other non biodegradable garbage is a crisis. There must be a worldwide effort to properly dispose of non biodegradable garbage and clean up as much as possible the existing garbage. Food and other products must get wrapped in biodegradable materials. A massive cleanup must be undertaken to remove the garbage that can be captured. The daily flow by the tons of plastics, styrofoam and other non biodegradable materials into the oceans cannot continue if complex life is to continue.
       Automation will ensure the loss of millions of jobs. People still need to do something and earn a living. Employing people to remove garbage is desperately needed, and can employ millions.
       Technology cannot continue to ignore non biodegradable materials contaminating the oceans while the focus remains on things far less important.
       Many will do nothing because they are too weak and lazy to do anything in their lives but hate someone or some other group different than themselves.
       Others will do nothing because they believe their religion, the god they worship, will rescue them to a better place. If you have a house that you turn into a filthy sewer, do you think you will be welcomed into another house?
       It is easy to ignore the way mankind is turning the oceans  into a contaminated toilet because most do not see it. The day will come when this will haunt us all.