Een filmpje over de verschrikkingen van plastic in de oceanen, Amerikaans, dus vooral over de Pacific. Ondertiteld in verschillende talen !
Dichterbij huis is het niet beter (zie vorige posts op deze blog)
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Showing posts with label moore. Show all posts
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Plastic: Werelderfgoed
Een verschrikkelijke blik in de toekomst: Charles Moore geeft tekst en uitleg bij de wereldwijde
plastic-ramp.
En denk vooral niet dat het een plaatselijk Stille Oceaan-probleempje is !
Met dank aan Tom Bonte
plastic-ramp.
En denk vooral niet dat het een plaatselijk Stille Oceaan-probleempje is !
Met dank aan Tom Bonte
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Plastific Ocean...
...of het verhaal van captain Moore, de 'ontdekker' van 'de grootste vuilnisbelt ter wereld', uit Best Life.
Een lang artikel, maar wel duidelijk, en...verontrustend...
Sit back, and start to tremble with fear :-)
Een extract:
Alas, the same ethereal quality that allows bags to dance gracefully across the big screen also lands them in many less desirable places. Twenty-three countries, including Germany, South Africa, and Australia, have banned, taxed, or restricted the use of plastic bags because they clog sewers and lodge in the throats of livestock. Like pernicious Kleenex, these flimsy sacks end up snagged in trees and snarled in fences, becoming eyesores and worse: They also trap rainwater, creating perfect little breeding grounds for disease-carrying mosquitoes.
In the face of public outrage over pictures of dolphins choking on “a family’s trusted companion,” the American Plastics Council takes a defensive stance, sounding not unlike the NRA: Plastics don’t pollute, people do.
It has a point. Each of us tosses about 185 pounds of plastic per year. We could certainly reduce that. And yet—do our products have to be quite so lethal? Must a discarded flip-flop remain with us until the end of time? Aren’t disposable razors and foam packing peanuts a poor consolation prize for the destruction of the world’s oceans, not to mention our own bodies and the health of future generations? “If ‘more is better’ and that’s the only mantra we have, we’re doomed,” Moore says, summing it up.
Een lang artikel, maar wel duidelijk, en...verontrustend...
Sit back, and start to tremble with fear :-)
Een extract:
Alas, the same ethereal quality that allows bags to dance gracefully across the big screen also lands them in many less desirable places. Twenty-three countries, including Germany, South Africa, and Australia, have banned, taxed, or restricted the use of plastic bags because they clog sewers and lodge in the throats of livestock. Like pernicious Kleenex, these flimsy sacks end up snagged in trees and snarled in fences, becoming eyesores and worse: They also trap rainwater, creating perfect little breeding grounds for disease-carrying mosquitoes.
In the face of public outrage over pictures of dolphins choking on “a family’s trusted companion,” the American Plastics Council takes a defensive stance, sounding not unlike the NRA: Plastics don’t pollute, people do.
It has a point. Each of us tosses about 185 pounds of plastic per year. We could certainly reduce that. And yet—do our products have to be quite so lethal? Must a discarded flip-flop remain with us until the end of time? Aren’t disposable razors and foam packing peanuts a poor consolation prize for the destruction of the world’s oceans, not to mention our own bodies and the health of future generations? “If ‘more is better’ and that’s the only mantra we have, we’re doomed,” Moore says, summing it up.
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