Pollution, deforestation and other marvels

If you didn't realize, our planet is on the brink of destruction, in fact much of it is already destroyed and mostly affected by human activity.

This thread will present some alarming facts about the situation of the environment.







The Great Pacific Garbage Patch




The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also described as the Pacific Trash Vortex, is a gyre of marine litter in the central North Pacific Ocean.


The Patch is characterized by exceptionally high concentrations of pelagic plastics, chemical sludge, and other debris that have been trapped by the currents of the North Pacific Gyre.





Estimates of size range from 700,000 square kilometres (270,000 sq mi) to more than 15,000,000 square kilometres (5,800,000 sq mi) (0.41% to 8.1% of the size of the Pacific Ocean), or, in some media reports, up to "twice the size of the continental United States".


In the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre in 1999, plastic abundance was 335 000 items/km2 and 5.1 kg/km2, roughly an order of magnitude greater than samples collected in the 1980s.

Charles Moore (the one who discovered it) has estimated the mass of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch at 100 million tons.


It is the largest landfill in the world.

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If only Discovery Channel, National Geographic etc would stop presenting idyllically the nature and give the real picture of the situation, people would become more aware. But I wonder how many could see a reason in protecting the nature, as most people, I think, have an "Apres nous, le deluge" mentality.

Yes it's true. If this destruction will continues, then our word will naturally come to an end. This volcanic eruption and Tsunami's is just the result of that. We must take some step against it.And stop this..

We do have a way of mucking things up, don't we.