The 15 most toxic places to live
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The North Pacific Gyre
An island of trash twice the size of Texas floats in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, circulated by the currents of the North Pacific Gyre. The trash, which is mostly made up of plastic debris, floats as deep as 30 feet below the surface.
MNN Interactive: What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
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Living in space and the Pacific Ocean are already fatal...the garbage has nothing to do with its habitability.
this got way off topic
wow, seems like no one can do anything about it because all people do is argue and say ****** things to eachother .... how is insulting someone going to fix these issues we are ALL faceing together like it or not?
I thought I read in the State run media that China was a model for reducing their carbon footprint and pollution . What a joke...Until we get " real " reporting of information from our government and news media , we will never be able to tackle the problem properly. Listen all you nut job "greenies" China, Indonesia, India and many others could care less about pollution. They are what the US was in the 1950's. All they care about is bottom line profit. I do not want my tax dollars going to.... More
Who in the hell said that this was going to be a good idea
Ocean currents take the trash there, it's not something anyone put there.
When I was in the Navy many years ago- I was aghast when I went to sea on a carrier and when they called for trash to be dumped there were hundreds of people in line throwing multiple PLASTIC bags of junk over the fantail.More
I could not believe people would just throw that stuff in the ocean.
I've heard they try to save as much as they can now and dump less- but I would have to see it to believe it- Most of the trash in this debris island was probably intentionally dumped there.
The headline on the photo says twice the size of texas- now don't get me wrong I don't want a trash pile in the Ocean the size of Delaware, but if you go to the link that this photo is from (MNN)- they admit they don't know how big it is. They state it is hundreds of miles wide.
Lets say it is 200 miles across and square- that is 40,000 square miles- Texas is 260,000- (twice THAT is 520,000).
Why must everything be exaggerated for greater effect these days- STATE THE.... More
A square 725 miles on each side is more than 520,000 square miles*. Clearly hundreds of miles wide. So what's your point?
*Almost as big as Alaska.
What are you smoking?
what are YOU smoking?
Omira , how is this cool ? this is heart-breaking . We need to fix this now !
Its awful, but is it toxic to the people living there? (who) Point is in the context of the article who is living there? Someone sails through on a boat perhaps...but does the toxic sea actually affect them?
obviously its toxic to the fish and sea life that live there is the point, the article seemed to assume places for humans to live... What about the vog from volcanic activity on the big island of hawaii? There are many places on the earth that are toxic places to live that didn't make the list, perhaps a top 100 list is coming....
it is OUR job, starting now! What do you mean "too late for your generation"? Are you dead? To complain and pass the problem to others is not being responsible!! It is CRITICAL that each of us take action NOW!!!! We must think differently, buy differently and ask if not then why.... for example, ask Costco why they must overpackage so many items....ask the yogurt companies why they must package in nonrecyclable plastic, etc; the smallest actions can change EVERYTHING!!! That is the only.... More
I do my part, and I actually make a pretty penny recycling stuff that others consider trash. But too many people don't want to be bothered with recycling, don't have the time, or think it's something only low lives should be doing
Actually...false advertising and bad leadership could be the blame vs. lack of effort by the public. Do the research, many cities across the US promote recycling programs but the sad reality is that these recycle bins end up at the city dump site...same place where regular trash is disposed. Cost by cities to recycle outweighs the push for living green-Scam!
It's incredible to know that the size the waste in the North Pacific Gyre is the size of Texas! That's mind blowing! I've made it my life goal to be green and to save our world. Although I might sound older, I'm almost 18 but I feel like it's up to my generation to fix what's going on in the world. Like pollution, extination or endagered animals who need protecting. I wish many people would see what I see, and be active with getting greener. Being greener isn't a joke- it's something that could.... More
using a computer isn't that green... i'm not having a go, i'm just saying if it's your life goal then stop using it.
So this our our Global Backyard? Too late for my generation as greed is the way of life.However, I hope the generations to come will do something about these atrocities.It was difficult to view these images. We humans are a waste of space when this happens in our world today.
@ALL THE COMPLAINERS: If your not doing anything to change it, then shut up.
@THE ANTI COMPLAINERS: Your just as bad, if your not doing something, then shut up.
If you are doing something, report it so others can get involved.
GENERAL: I am an AMERICAN and love the earth more than the IDIOTS in it. I Have seen the world, like unto that china smog picture, and worse in visions and dreams. Anything not good for the enviroment should be, without question, annihilated, including.... More
Same comment, different place. Proof he knows to cut and paste.
I have heard that the plastic eventually breaks down into smaller pieces and is eaten by a sequence of different size fish until the contaminants make their way up the food chain to humans. I am concerned about my health and the health of the sea life and birds along the way.
Build a raft from all the Pacific floating debris, erect a Walmart, a K-Mart, a Piggly-Wiggly, an amusement park, a mega-church, a NASCAR track, a housing project, and a trailer park, and make everyone who refuses to recycle, take public transportation, or drive a fuel efficient car live there!
Wow, that's about as stereotypical as you can get.
I lean to the right, regularly shop at Wal-Mart, and attend church...yet I recycle WAY more and have a much smaller footprint than pretty much all of the "blue" people I know that talk this stuff up so much. And from what I've seen, they cheat on their taxes pretty much every year even though they want huge governments and such...how's that for a stereotype?
Oh, and the picture of this Pacific garbage dump is very.... More
You want to know why? It will cost money. Who will benefit? Certainly all of us on the planet, but no one will clean it up because there is too little benefit to society as a whole. There are more important things to clean up, places where humans actually live.
Your list is entitled 'The 15 Most Toxic Places to Live' - Who lives in the middle of the Pacific - and I'm not talking about an island, this is in the middle of the ocean. We are land creatures.
I actually think it is really cool that they didn't narrow their scope to the most toxic places HUMANS live. Never was it stated that was the focus, but until I saw this one, I assumed that's what they meant, to my embarrassment. Ambrose Bierce once defined "Ocean" in The Devil's Dictionary: "A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man- who has no gills."
Ya maybe we are land creatures, but don't you think this crap will wash up on shore? Ya maybe i think so. This waste is twice the size of texas, our biggest state in the U.S. It's bound to wind up coming on to our land, or the others. and this will maybe kinda sorta tant the water that goes into our body? Ya i think so, and the animals live there, so its still considered home to others, we also need to look out for them to. So stop PMSING and look at the problem, just because you live on land.... More
Paige, Texas is not the biggest state of the Union, Alaska is. Just a thought.
here you go you eco-nuts, go clean this up you know where it is. you can recycle all that plastic. dont just talk about do something to fix it.
it's hard to clean something up when people like you keep adding to it faster than it can be dealt with. if we still have a planet in 20 years, it will be because people like you don't reproduce and propagate generations of ignorance.
very well said!!
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