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- crc77, on 07/11/2008, -1/+9Not the greatest piece of writing in the world, but a pretty horrifying - and very important - topic...
"One asked, “Do we have an answer to the question ‘Yeah, it’s gross, but why should I put it high on my list of world problems that need our immediate attention?’?” It is a good question because marine pollution is one of the most underreported stories today. One glaring answer to the question is this: Around 2.5 billion people rely upon fish for at least 20 percent of their animal protein. When fisheries get polluted, so does the food we eat." - drgkstep, on 07/11/2008, -2/+8Well it took a year and a half but the MSM just picked up the story.
- roil, on 07/11/2008, -0/+6The writing of this article was terrible and they are kind of late to the table. I'm not sure if you guys have seen the documentary playing on VBS.TV but it's a 12 part series about this 'toxic garbage island' which is (of course) about the North Western Gyre. They don't have a direct link to the series but the first episode is at - http://www.vbs.tv/shows.php?show=1154&source=sc
- d1a1s1, on 07/11/2008, -0/+5I think a story like this can only benefit from being dugg up too many times.
"Im not clicking on Digg for this story AGAIN!, jeez, Im not a clicking machine!" - MCA2142, on 07/11/2008, -0/+5We need WALL-E on this asap.
- barrywmartin, on 07/11/2008, -0/+4Could someone please post a link to decent image of these "great garbage patches". I have often looked on-line for any real image that shows it in a larger scale so that its magnitude can be observed. Generally only small(ish) batches of garbage or individual animals and divers appear in the images. I believe something is out there. But it seems a little suspicious when so many people claim to have been there and seen it but produce not one image that illustrates the true and dire situation. Pics or it didn't happen.
- inactive, on 07/11/2008, -0/+4They've been reporting it longer then you've probably even known about it.
CBS did a piece almost 4 years ago.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/06/eveningn ...
LA Times did a piece 2 years ago
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/1087286 ...
Seatle Times as well
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286- ...
About a 4 months ago CNN interviewed the director of Garbage Patch Island.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2008/04/ ...
And of course, Matt Lauer did his piece on it during the Today Show Green Week, 2 years in a row. - inactive, on 07/11/2008, -1/+5Ummm, this has been on Digg off and on for a couple years. Yet all we get are pictures of garbage or animals trapped in some unrelated garbage somewhere else in the world. For something so huge, you would think we would see at least one good pictures of it.
- bradtacs, on 07/11/2008, -0/+3Generally speaking there is not a big pile of visible garbage. The plastic breaks down into small particles and mostly exists just below the surface of the ocean. Go watch these videos.. http://www.vbs.tv/shows/toxic/garbage-island/
If you are in a hurry only worry about watching the last 3-4 since those are the ones that are actually at the gyre. - CosmoP, on 07/11/2008, -0/+3Where are the pictures? I've never seen one picture to go with these stories about a trash pile larger than the US. If it was so big someone whould take a picture as they sail by. We got tons of pictures of the green slime in China's sea so somebody carries a camera on a boat.
- n1eb, on 07/11/2008, -0/+2That's what I came here to say. You went through all that effort and didn't come back with any decent images?
- pax85, on 07/11/2008, -0/+2So, still not high res sat image available? How come?
- vicsvenge, on 07/11/2008, -1/+3why do they never take pictures of this phenomenon...
- bradtacs, on 07/11/2008, -0/+2Generally speaking there is not a big pile of visible garbage. The plastic breaks down into small particles and mostly exists just below the surface of the ocean. Go watch these videos.. http://www.vbs.tv/shows/toxic/garbage-island/
If you are in a hurry only worry about watching the last 3-4 since those are the ones that are actually at the gyre. - Eganj, on 07/11/2008, -0/+1I just watched the whole series. Thanks for the link!
- LanceUppercut, on 07/11/2008, -0/+1Well maybe Oahu.
- GaidinTS, on 07/11/2008, -0/+1Is all the trash in the ocean clogging the 'tubes'? Is that why the website won't come up?
- anchora, on 07/11/2008, -2/+3Why does the Captain Planet theme song play in my head when I read this article?..
- gttim, on 07/11/2008, -1/+2If you can't show me a picture of God, he doesn't exist.
There are no satellite photos, because this thing hovers just below the surface, so you cannot get an overhead satellite shot or long establishing shot. Such a shot just looks like regular ocean. No long establishing shot underwater because of the properties of light through water. All you will see is a big blue blur. - cheezintern, on 07/12/2008, -0/+1There needs to be shocking documentaries and more coverage to bring about greater public awareness.
- leazarus, on 07/11/2008, -0/+1I want to say one word to you, Ben. Just one word. Are you listening?
Plastics. - sngx1275, on 07/11/2008, -0/+1I agree. I'm sure there is a lot of trash, but you never see any zoomed in satellite photos, no photos from the decks of ships or anything. I really doubt there is some sort of conspiracy here because I can't see anything to gain from one, I just wonder why we never see any pictures of this.
- yournightmare, on 07/11/2008, -0/+1I've tried to find pictures many times, but I still haven't seen a picture of a pile of garbage "twice the size of Texas" floating in the ocean. If it's that big, they really shouldn't have a problem finding and photographing it, instead of taking pictures of clumps of garbage 10 feet long and 10 feet deep, or piles of trash on a beach which may or may not have been dumped there by a tsunami.
I'm not insinuating there's not a problem, but I really don't see why it's so hard/impossible to find a picture of the actual garbage patch. - xero69, on 07/11/2008, -1/+1Rats and here I thought I had produced the world's largest dump after eating $100 worth of taco bell. Curse you ocean for stealing my glory!
But seriously, pollution sucks. - biogears, on 07/11/2008, -1/+1Digg: The garbage island story repository.
- Hexoddz, on 07/11/2008, -1/+1About 3,000 Courics. That's a large dump.
- waspbr, on 07/11/2008, -0/+1why do they never google before asking for pictures...
there are videos on youtube as well
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxNqzAHGXvs&feature ... - MickJT, on 07/11/2008, -3/+2Who thought South Park ep 1109?
- ahhell, on 07/11/2008, -2/+1Wow that dump must be 10 million Courics. Bono must be pissed.
- inactive, on 07/11/2008, -2/+1Old News posted many times before.
- MollyO2, on 07/11/2008, -1/+0I don't see why the government can't just bann all plastic and styrofoam products. There are lots of biogradable products that could be substituted.
- Trini2daBone, on 07/11/2008, -2/+1Shave the whales...
- rjc5056, on 07/11/2008, -5/+3You had a digg from me before the colon in the title. But then I get hit with your wet blanket of a syntactical-descriptive. Here I was expecting Courics off the charts and instead I get to feel bad about pollution.
- BryGy, on 07/11/2008, -3/+1Its not that I don't believe this, but I want to see satellite based evidence to show the extent of the trash. Surely there is some satellite up there that has a particular wavelength of scanning capabilities that will show the broad spread of this trash in the pacific.
- terminal157, on 07/11/2008, -3/+1Bull, the moon is the world's largest dump.
- drmangrum, on 07/11/2008, -5/+2I was expecting something....worse.
- diggopolous, on 07/11/2008, -5/+1Second Place for world's largest dump: Anyone who made the mistake of visiting Taco Bell and White Castle on the same drunken evening.
- haentz, on 07/11/2008, -6/+1I expected to be RRed to 2Girls1Cup...
- breefield, on 07/11/2008, -6/+1I thought that was just Hawaii...
- laserviking, on 07/11/2008, -8/+3In Soviet Russia, zooplankton... ah bugger it.
- v4veer, on 07/11/2008, -5/+1me too never been excited to read articles about dump !
- inactive, on 07/11/2008, -6/+1holy *****! He's going to kill it with that knife!!! SAVE THE SEALS PEOPLE!
- tendonut, on 07/11/2008, -9/+3You want to see the world's largest dump? Check out my toilet in 15 minutes...
- beersnob, on 07/11/2008, -9/+3Buried...old news. Been Dugg umpteen times in the last several months alone.
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