Fukushima, Tritium, Plastics; The Pacific Has A Point Of No Return

     The Fukushima damaged nuclear reactor is in the news regarding a plan to release tritium contaminated water into the Pacific. It is argued by company officials and others in favor of the release that tritium contaminated water is not highly radioactive, that it poses little risk, and that the contaminated water will be sufficiently diluted by the Pacific.
      Apart from whether or not this is true, a dangerous precedent has already been set in which the oceans are used to dispose of poisons, garbage, radioactive materials and other contaminants. At what point will the great Pacific Ocean no longer be capable of diluting everything mankind throws its way?
       Everyday thousands of tons of plastics, styrofoam and other non biodegradable waste enters or is dumped into the Pacific. Out of sight, out of mind, or so people think. But it does not disappear. It breaks down into smaller, virtually indestructible particles.
       The assault on the Pacific comes from many directions: plastics, poisons, seafloor trawlers and other destructive fishing practices, overfishing, acidification, coral reef destruction, destruction of coral reef islands and atolls, ghost nets, the killing off of apex predators and most large fish, to name but some of the threats. Not that many decades ago, the Pacific was used to test atomic bombs, rendering certain areas radioactive to this day. That was stopped. Unfortunately, the plastic poisoning of the oceans has only accelerated.
       There is a point of no return, in which the Pacific can no longer dilute or absorb what mankind throws its way.