Another Garbage Patch Discovered In The Pacific And Why It Does Not Help

      A boat captain that heads an environmental group traveled the South Pacific and found a new garbage patch. The publicity it generated highlights a problem that people will continue to do nothing about. It is like a person with a mouthful of cavities and infected teeth going to a new dentist who discovers yet another rotten tooth. "Will you do something", asks the patient with the rotting teeth. "No", replies the dentists, "I only tell you what is infected. I don't do anything about it".

      No one in the world has to travel the far seas to know that the oceans are full of plastic. Anyone, and it does not have to be a fund seeking scientist or organization, can stay on land near the ocean, and see the enormous amount of trash that enter into the oceans daily. Every single day thousands upon thousands of tons of plastics, styrofoam and other oil based non biodegradable contaminants enters into the oceans. The simple act of employing people to remove this destructive waste from coastlines, waterways and lands will not happen. This could provide employment for millions of people in countries such as China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Bangladesh, India, Egypt, and other countries that are major sources of the plastic contamination. It is more important for people to watch some meaningless stock grow then save the planet

     The world's efforts are devoted to war, waging jihad, making money, killing an enemy, pursuing some high tech endeavor, shopping, but not to managing garbage and keeping plastics from killing the oceans. 

     While stock markets make new all time highs, the real wealth of the planet deteriorates. Inflated stocks, money, weapons, a religion, will not protect mankind from the environmental catastrophe that is being unleashed.

      No one needs a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. The huge amount of plastics and other contaminants that enter the oceans daily do not magically disappear. They break down into virtually impossible to capture small particles. Most of it never ends up in the garbage patches of the world. It disperses in the oceans, killing seabirds, turtles, whales, manta rays, dolphins, fish and other marine life, just as it one day will destroy mankind.