8 Important Steps to Stop Ocean Destruction By Plastic

   This is an important, not all inclusive list.
       1.  No plastic should be produced that is not recyclable.
       2.  Proper waste management must become a global concern. Plastic and other non biodegradable waste pours into the oceans from many countries that lack proper waste removal and disposal. Countries lacking resources for proper waste management must be helped before the oceans are completely destroyed.
       3.  Thousands, even millions of disadvantaged people must be employed worldwide to remove plastic and other trash from coastlines and elsewhere. This can be the largest antipoverty/environmental project the world has ever known.
       4.  There must be penalties for companies that lose their plastic nurdles and other plastic materials into the environment.
       5.  Finding alternatives to plastic and other oil based materials must become a high priority.
       6. Recycling must become a far more serious effort than it is now. There must be penalties and fines for noncompliance, no matter if the noncompliance comes from individuals, businesses or corporations.
       7. Companies that use, manufacture or fabricate plastic or other oil based materials must be held responsible for where their materials end up.
        8. Oil based non biodegradable materials in clothing(polyester, acrylic, nylon,spandex,etc.,) release hundreds of thousands, even millions of fibers when washed and cleaned. The use of  synthetic (damaging to the oceans and other waterways) materials must be reduced, or even better yet, stopped.

Prisoner To Bad Religion

    There are serious ecological problems that threaten the very survival of the human race. It is not possible to keep poisoning the oceans and lands with plastics and a myriad of other life choking trash and contaminants and expect humans to thrive. It is not possible to have continued ecological degradation combined with an exploding human population and expect a bright future for humanity. It is only a matter of time before humans destroy themselves either from nuclear weapons or from destroying the environment beyond repair.
     Yet rather than face the destruction we are bringing upon ourselves, many people could care less. Religion does not help when it enables people to ignore the realities of this world. It is okay to destroy earth and each other, many believe, because there is a better world after life on this one.
     Respecting religions must not include uncritical acceptance of destructive religious beliefs and impulses. We cannot have religious wars and expect to survive. Religions should not exist to perpetuate themselves and remain forever untouched and unreformed, no matter how much harm and evil they cause.
     We cannot be married to failed beliefs and ideologies from centuries past, believing that they hold the answer for present times. They do not.
      Faith and religion are not one and the same. When religion promotes bigotry, supremacy, intolerance, hate, and violence, it should be resisted. Religion should exist to help people be better human beings; kinder, more compassionate and braver. It should not be turning people into a bunch of hate filled violent fanatics.
     
 
       

       
     
     

Political, Economic and Religious Authorities That Keep Millions In Poverty and Desperation

      There are many countries where regardless of how bright, talented, and capable a person might be, they are condemned to a life of grinding poverty, unemployment or underemployment and low wages. A small number of extremely rich people control virtually everything. Almost the entire rest of the population lives in poverty or near to it.

       The political, religious and economic structures in place support the continuation of mass poverty and wasted lives. 

        Grueling poverty, wasted talent, no opportunity, drives many to do anything they can to escape the countries of their birth. No matter how many escape, nothing changes. The political, economic and religious powers that rule put their own interests and pocketbooks first. They may feign concern and throw some crumbs to the poor, but they are the very forces keeping people downtrodden.

         

War, Jihad And Armed Struggle Condemns Children To Die

The people that support armed violence, war, struggle, resistance and conflict, never failing to justify their calls to violence, bear responsibility for civilian casualties on all sides.

Caring About Arab Children Means Not Supporting Islamic Jihadists: Israel/Palestine

     If someone really cares about Palestinian Arab children, then they will seek peace and reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinian Arabs. They will not support dehumanizing and delegitimizing Jews. They will not support the continuation of war, violence, terror, armed struggle, jihad and martyrdom, which has led to nothing but displacement, poverty, death, maiming and misery. The Jews of Israel are human beings, not a Zionist entity to be wiped out.
     There are many Jew haters in the world that want nothing more than another genocide against Jews. They want this conflict inflamed and resolved only through the murder and ethnic cleansing of Israel's Jewish population. Most Arab Muslim and other Muslim countries already got rid of their Jews, sending many of them fleeing for their lives to what is now Israel (where they and their descendents now form the majority population of Israel). Their rights and claims are no less legitimate than the rights and claims of Palestinian Arabs.
      Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Islamic Jihad and many other Islamic jihadist nations and organizations want the complete destruction of Israel. Their pursuit of Jewish genocide has caused the death of countless children, both Israeli and Arab. The adults that want war and jihad are condemning children to death and maiming.
        There is no way out from this conflict except through peace, compromise and mutual acceptance. Unfortunately, this is the last thing Islamic jihadists and their Jew hating followers want. It is disingenuous to call for war, armed struggle and violence and then complain when children are the casualties. War in and of itself is a crime against humanity, and children especially are its victims.

Dogfighting: Common Occurring Crime Rarely Enforced

     There is no excuse for a commonly occurring crime to be rarely enforced. Such is the case for dogfighting. This will never change until the people and organizations that claim to be against dogfighting find this unacceptable. (Animal cruelty in other forms are also commonly occurring crimes that are minimally enforced.) Anti drunk driving and anti domestic violence organizations would never accept the rare enforcement of drunk driving and domestic violence.
      Dogfighters have a greater chance of getting struck by lightning than ever getting arrested. Why this pathology persists is a story unto itself. If drunk drivers and domestic violence offenders were treated the same as dogfighters, drunk drivers and domestic violence offenders would have nothing to fear. The few times they would get arrested would be newsworthy. The enforcement of commonly occurring crimes should never be so rare that it is newsworthy. Are the people and organizations that claim to help animals capable of the self reflection and change necessary to ensure that this is no longer so? Or will greed and selfishness prevail that renders change impossible? More decades should not pass in which there is the continued proliferation of people and organizations that profess concern about dogfighting while dogfighters themselves remain virtually untouched.
        For those organizations and individuals truly interested in fighting against dog fighting, the roadmap to having thousands upon thousands of dogfighters arrested, with untold numbers of animals removed from the dogfighters and other abusers, is not complicated, and can be achieved. If there is a continued lack of interest or will to do anything more than little to nothing, then dogfighting will remain alive and well. And so will so much misery and suffering that could easily have been stopped.

Pursue Religious War And Let The Garbage Flow

     In this messed up world, choking on garbage (with millions of pounds of plastic and other non biodegradable trash entering the oceans daily) and environmental destruction, many people would rather focus on their idiotic religious and ethnic conflicts. Every excuse in the book is used to justify war and killing. Millions of people are determined to kill whoever stands in the way of the spread of their religion. If they succeed, and the whole world turns into mindless sheep following their religion and their version of God, earth will truly be hell.