http://fund-balance.com/2009/12/the-great-pacific-garbage-patch-in-the-central-north-pacific-gyre-pieces-of-plastic-outweigh-surface-zooplankton-by-a-factor-of-six-to-one/ Sustainable Finance, Policy and Social Innovation Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://fund-balance.com/2009/12/the-great-pacific-garbage-patch-in-the-central-north-pacific-gyre-pieces-of-plastic-outweigh-surface-zooplankton-by-a-factor-of-six-to-one/comment-page-1/#comment-456 Brandon Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:09:31 +0000 http://fund-balance.com/?p=42#comment-456 Everyone conscience of this fact shold take action. Where is this 'Trash Vortex'? I want to help clean this.The one who condone to this unthoughtful actions.The will die quicker and we can stay alive for prosper of sustainability. This should be on the news a million times a day. Everyone conscience of this fact shold take action. Where is this ‘Trash Vortex’? I want to help clean this.The one who condone to this unthoughtful actions.The will die quicker and we can stay alive for prosper of sustainability. This should be on the news a million times a day.

]]> http://fund-balance.com/2009/12/the-great-pacific-garbage-patch-in-the-central-north-pacific-gyre-pieces-of-plastic-outweigh-surface-zooplankton-by-a-factor-of-six-to-one/comment-page-1/#comment-312 Perspective: The Farmer in the Dell | The Mossy Skull Mon, 31 May 2010 20:20:43 +0000 http://fund-balance.com/?p=42#comment-312 [...] there’s the garbage patch. The 2.8 million tons of pesticides used every year worldwide. Those de-oxygenated ocean dead zones [...] [...] there’s the garbage patch. The 2.8 million tons of pesticides used every year worldwide. Those de-oxygenated ocean dead zones [...]

]]> http://fund-balance.com/2009/12/the-great-pacific-garbage-patch-in-the-central-north-pacific-gyre-pieces-of-plastic-outweigh-surface-zooplankton-by-a-factor-of-six-to-one/comment-page-1/#comment-146 Kirk Hermsen Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:02:06 +0000 http://fund-balance.com/?p=42#comment-146 With the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the garbage patches in the Pacific ocean and there's enough crap in the Atlantic ocean as well. With the human population soaring it doesn't look good at all. With global climate change, I really can't see how humans will survive? I honestly can't see it. The biggest challenge I see is survival with clean water and edible food. Roy West said it in his post we did this to ourselves. With people having little or no common sense what so ever about producing children and our environment, I really see no future for humans. I do hope the press continues to drive home the point of how important a clean environment is!!!!! With the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the garbage patches in the Pacific ocean and there’s enough crap in the Atlantic ocean as well. With the human population soaring it doesn’t look good at all. With global climate change, I really can’t see how humans will survive? I honestly can’t see it. The biggest challenge I see is survival with clean water and edible food. Roy West said it in his post we did this to ourselves. With people having little or no common sense what so ever about producing children and our environment, I really see no future for humans. I do hope the press continues to drive home the point of how important a clean environment is!!!!!

]]> http://fund-balance.com/2009/12/the-great-pacific-garbage-patch-in-the-central-north-pacific-gyre-pieces-of-plastic-outweigh-surface-zooplankton-by-a-factor-of-six-to-one/comment-page-1/#comment-144 nig mat Fri, 30 Apr 2010 01:52:00 +0000 http://fund-balance.com/?p=42#comment-144 were effed were effed

]]> http://fund-balance.com/2009/12/the-great-pacific-garbage-patch-in-the-central-north-pacific-gyre-pieces-of-plastic-outweigh-surface-zooplankton-by-a-factor-of-six-to-one/comment-page-1/#comment-136 Phil Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:26:47 +0000 http://fund-balance.com/?p=42#comment-136 In all honesty, what are you going to do with it? Landfill? Burn it? Recycle it? Who's going to fund it? In all honesty as far as I can see it's a problem that is far beyond any resources we now have, and given the leaching of chemicals from the plastic, a vast amount of damage has already been done; any clean-up operation would just deal with the residue. And what a residue! I would love to feel positive about this, but I can't. I walk the streets, people live in their insular 'doesn't affect me so it doesn't matter' little worlds, and they carry on polluting and throwing away their waste without a thought to the consequences. This might seem like a big problem now, but imagine it in 10 years time . . .remember this problem has been known about since the mid-1980's and what has anyone done about it? In all honesty, what are you going to do with it? Landfill? Burn it? Recycle it? Who’s going to fund it?
In all honesty as far as I can see it’s a problem that is far beyond any resources we now have, and given the leaching of chemicals from the plastic, a vast amount of damage has already been done; any clean-up operation would just deal with the residue. And what a residue!
I would love to feel positive about this, but I can’t. I walk the streets, people live in their insular ‘doesn’t affect me so it doesn’t matter’ little worlds, and they carry on polluting and throwing away their waste without a thought to the consequences.
This might seem like a big problem now, but imagine it in 10 years time . . .remember this problem has been known about since the mid-1980′s and what has anyone done about it?

]]> http://fund-balance.com/2009/12/the-great-pacific-garbage-patch-in-the-central-north-pacific-gyre-pieces-of-plastic-outweigh-surface-zooplankton-by-a-factor-of-six-to-one/comment-page-1/#comment-124 erika Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:38:50 +0000 http://fund-balance.com/?p=42#comment-124 We're going to make a difference! Pulling together the resources necessary to accomplish this clean up effort for the Pacific Garbage Patch will be a hug endeavor. The amount of resources promise to be a very large and time consuming list however, with the power of the mind comes reason, hard work, and success. Failure is not an option. We are going to reach out and show photo's to the team of leaders we pull together and embark on cleaning up 70 years of careless consumption. My boyfriend said next thing you know developers will attempt to build land on it. The Pacific Garbage Patch and the four other garbage patches are sad problems but, with every problem, lies a solution. We’re going to make a difference! Pulling together the resources necessary to accomplish this clean up effort for the Pacific Garbage Patch will be a hug endeavor. The amount of resources promise to be a very large and time consuming list however, with the power of the mind comes reason, hard work, and success. Failure is not an option. We are going to reach out and show photo’s to the team of leaders we pull together and embark on cleaning up 70 years of careless consumption. My boyfriend said next thing you know developers will attempt to build land on it. The Pacific Garbage Patch and the four other garbage patches are sad problems but, with every problem, lies a solution.

]]> http://fund-balance.com/2009/12/the-great-pacific-garbage-patch-in-the-central-north-pacific-gyre-pieces-of-plastic-outweigh-surface-zooplankton-by-a-factor-of-six-to-one/comment-page-1/#comment-123 Phil Rogers Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:35:55 +0000 http://fund-balance.com/?p=42#comment-123 You can say all you want about ethical investment and conscious consumption, but face it, Frank Herbert said it, Arthur C. Clark said it, when the oceans go, everything goes, and we are really there. Now. Forget tipping points, they passed a long time ago - Environmental scientists are, I think, hiding a great deal of what frightens them. You know, I remember a National Geographic from the 60's with a photograph of a man who had cleaned out a salmon pool in one of the great American rivers and the twisted ball of fishing line and lures was almost bigger than he was, and that was the Sixties! We've come a long long way since then. Environmentalism is a doomed ethos - it was doomed before it was ever thought of. You can say all you want about ethical investment and conscious consumption, but face it, Frank Herbert said it, Arthur C. Clark said it, when the oceans go, everything goes, and we are really there. Now.
Forget tipping points, they passed a long time ago – Environmental scientists are, I think, hiding a great deal of what frightens them.
You know, I remember a National Geographic from the 60′s with a photograph of a man who had cleaned out a salmon pool in one of the great American rivers and the twisted ball of fishing line and lures was almost bigger than he was, and that was the Sixties! We’ve come a long long way since then.
Environmentalism is a doomed ethos – it was doomed before it was ever thought of.

]]> http://fund-balance.com/2009/12/the-great-pacific-garbage-patch-in-the-central-north-pacific-gyre-pieces-of-plastic-outweigh-surface-zooplankton-by-a-factor-of-six-to-one/comment-page-1/#comment-120 Tweets that mention The Great Pacific Garbage Patch — In the central North Pacific Gyre, pieces of plastic outweigh surface zooplankton by a factor of six to one - Fund Balance -- Topsy.com Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:06:13 +0000 http://fund-balance.com/?p=42#comment-120 [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Sungirl 290, Andrea Fuentes. Andrea Fuentes said: the great pacifiic garbage patch o algo así como el gran parche de basura del pacifico #díadelatierra http://fund-balance.com/?p=42 [...] [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Sungirl 290, Andrea Fuentes. Andrea Fuentes said: the great pacifiic garbage patch o algo así como el gran parche de basura del pacifico #díadelatierra http://fund-balance.com/?p=42 [...]

]]> http://fund-balance.com/2009/12/the-great-pacific-garbage-patch-in-the-central-north-pacific-gyre-pieces-of-plastic-outweigh-surface-zooplankton-by-a-factor-of-six-to-one/comment-page-1/#comment-101 scott Sat, 17 Apr 2010 00:06:52 +0000 http://fund-balance.com/?p=42#comment-101 this human animal is not smart enough nor advaced enough to be given a second chance. this human animal is not smart enough nor advaced enough to be given a second chance.

]]> http://fund-balance.com/2009/12/the-great-pacific-garbage-patch-in-the-central-north-pacific-gyre-pieces-of-plastic-outweigh-surface-zooplankton-by-a-factor-of-six-to-one/comment-page-1/#comment-88 Roy West Sun, 11 Apr 2010 18:44:30 +0000 http://fund-balance.com/?p=42#comment-88 We are a resilient species but this mess we have created is so bad that it is not likely the human species will survive. It can not be wished away or prayed away. It is an ecological disaster of epic proportions. I personally think that we are in the last days as the planet disintegrates around us. 6.9 billion people and counting all consuming like locust on the land. 70 years of consumption with very few of the world population trying to restore a balance. It is only a matter of time before man can add his name to the list of extinct species. This is no laughing matter. As your sons and daughters cry out in pain from starvation and disease caused by the collapse of the food chain I do not want to hear you complain. You did it to yourself. We are a resilient species but this mess we have created is so bad that it is not likely the human species will survive. It can not be wished away or prayed away. It is an ecological disaster of epic proportions. I personally think that we are in the last days as the planet disintegrates around us. 6.9 billion people and counting all consuming like locust on the land. 70 years of consumption with very few of the world population trying to restore a balance. It is only a matter of time before man can add his name to the list of extinct species. This is no laughing matter. As your sons and daughters cry out in pain from starvation and disease caused by the collapse of the food chain I do not want to hear you complain. You did it to yourself.

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