I'd like to see a real aerial photograph instead of this sort of picture. A diagram isn't good for much, but a real life photograph might jerk a few tears and enrage a few earth-huggers. Of which, I am sort of one. I like my clean dirt, water, and air. ><'
This is what it looks like. In places it is thirty feet deep and some estimates say that the Pacific garbage patch covers an area twice the size of the United States (this is, admittedly, the high estimate. Some estimates put patches just a little larger than Texas). There are five of them, though, not just two.
The fact that humans can sleep at night with that abomination sitting in the oceans shows that we, in general, don't give a stuff about anything. If it weren't for the ocean currents keeping this stuff away from the coast, it would be piled up so deep against our beaches and harbours that there wouldn't be a single place on dry land where you could see the ocean (not even from a skyscraper).
Is it normal there's a massive island of plastic in the ocean?
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I'd like to see a real aerial photograph instead of this sort of picture. A diagram isn't good for much, but a real life photograph might jerk a few tears and enrage a few earth-huggers. Of which, I am sort of one. I like my clean dirt, water, and air. ><'
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http://www.cookiesound.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/garbage-in-ocean.jpg
This is what it looks like. In places it is thirty feet deep and some estimates say that the Pacific garbage patch covers an area twice the size of the United States (this is, admittedly, the high estimate. Some estimates put patches just a little larger than Texas). There are five of them, though, not just two.
The fact that humans can sleep at night with that abomination sitting in the oceans shows that we, in general, don't give a stuff about anything. If it weren't for the ocean currents keeping this stuff away from the coast, it would be piled up so deep against our beaches and harbours that there wouldn't be a single place on dry land where you could see the ocean (not even from a skyscraper).
This was the only picture I could find that was viewable within the constraints of the small size for photos on an IIN story.
I am sorry it did not meet your expectations. I did my best.
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I did not know there were picture constraints. :/