Life in the Oceans May Be Nearing Its End

You know, in reading these comments, it seems everybody thinks somebody else did it. Well, I hate to tell you, but there's not a one of us who is not still contributing to the problem. A while back I vowed not to buy any more plastic. Ha! it's impossible to escape it. From packaging to appliances to clothes, it's everywhere. Just seriously think about going grocery shopping and coming home without any plastic. I think it may be impossible.

The chemical industry is now in court with the people who managed to " ban the bag" somewhere. HILUX corporation -- taking on the little guys. One of our directors is an expert witness for the defense.The industrial community could do allot to help, but in this case they are fighting the facts with heavy legal force and taking the wind out of the sails of a group with one solution. So who is responsible for the ocean condition -- literally everyone on earth, it is time to all focus on the solutions -- any little bit helps. If we loose at least we go down fighting? This is a big problem, look to the top and focus on applying social pressure for change --- fast.. Basing our society on oil was a real pit-fall eh --- YES! Oil-based products are working us from every angle -- from the price of oil and the environmental damage from drilling .... all the way to cleaning up plastic debris, yet few seem to realize how that works. THE OCEAN is a chemical soup, we better do something to change that fast.

A lament

Everyone loves to watch the commercial fisherman pulling in a full load of crabs. The lumberjack standing up to and chopping down that 500 year old goliath of a tree. Or truckers, who brave the ice terrain, haling gear the weight of buildings along thin icy roads. Everyone loves these modern day frontiersmen because their grit and honorable labor is easy to believe is all that is important. All the while, the unspoken message is clear nature is still out there, raw, abundant, ready to be consumed, and irrelevant.

I wish for a second I could believe in that world.

geez its time to stop talking and do SOMETHING!

well it can't be used as a dumping ground and still hold life as we know it. I'm not sure how many tons of garbage I've seen dumped into the Gulf of Mexico but it is more than I see dumped in the local land fill.

It is all too insidious. Those in charge are probably amused to watch us consume our planets blood knowing we are causing our own demise.

I can't help but think we Need Captain Planet (Said in heroic voice) and feel slightly bad for making the joke all at the same time. but since that is a 90's Cartoon and this is reality, if we want to have a world to live on then we have to stop asking them to stop destroying it and Force them to. I prefer peace but they won't let us have that either so it's time to use the last option.

Seems some ignorant, selfish, self absorbed humans will be getting a firsthand lesson about how the web of life works and how they helped bring it to its demise by sh***** ing on it. The other side of environmental justice. How much does it take? How many times relaying information? How many warnings? How much education?

its only a matter of time next time you are in wallmart look around at your fellow humans we are screwed .humans think only of themselves the dirtiest thing on the planet mother earth will throw us off just to survive.

This picture was shown last winter. It is part of a natural dieoff that occurs every year durning winter when water that does not have much current 'changes over' from bottom, where there is very little oxygen, to the top where the fish are living. The change is swift so most fish caught in this don't make it out. Now please don't dump on me about this cause I'm probably more environmentally inclined than you are.

Algae in the oceans produce at least 50% of atmospheric oxygen. When the oceans become too polluted to support the growth of this algae, there will likely be a mass extinction. We'll be included.

But tell that to the bozos that the plutocrats have hired to run their world for them. Or tell that to the 50% of Americans who are creationists. Or tell that to the majority of Americans who don't believe in global warming. Or tell that to the Republicans who believe the way to balance the budget is to cut taxes on wealthy plutocrats.

We chart, share, store, obtain, photograph, record, acquire, and log more information now than ever before in history. Calm down. THE END IS NEAR!! AGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!

Nixon created the EPA, the guy had his problems[as we all know] but I think if he were here he would call the Reps and the Dems on their BS.

If I can divine 'Tricky Dick' for a minute; he would yell at his own party an calling them lunatics, For one thing the guy didnt open relations for China only for us to open our collective glory hole a generation later to be economically sodomized...it was all about the exports baby.

And to divine Hunter S. Thompson, Tricky Dicks favorite journalist ; You dont shit all over the fucking place, even animals have enough sense to shit in the corner... it is clear to me that humanity has descended to the level of rabid amoebas, a thing that even god would consider too cruel to let loose upon the earth. A heretical form of life begging to be made into fertilizer.

Get ready for Soylent Green!

O but what about the national debt?!
That's all people seem to really care about, some fabricated bottom line.
Now that we've managed to wipe out native peoples and entire ecosystems, and fuck our way to seven billion, what do we expect?
But don't worry be happy. Mighty Mouse will come to save the day.

Here we go....get ready now

Excellent post, some scientists think we're past the tipping point like the article suggests if so this would drag everything else with it.....bummer.

I used to have some hope that we would somehow learn to be better caretakers of this planet.
But when I read about drilling for more oil, fracking for natural gas and tar sands and taking away land from Nebraskans to build a pipeline within the underground aquifer to ship tar sand crap to refineries.....I almost want to give up. Almost..........

I really have no desire to be around during a catastrophic event that will wipe out much of the human race.....but just think....what a way to go.
Screwed up oceans mean screwed up weather patterns, and that calls for a really screwed up mess for the human race.
I wonder if we'll survive?

What people do not yet understand , is , that as far as we can tell , ocean extinction events like this have always been accompanied by 70% ( give or take ) extinction on land . That means we will be deeply involved in this .

I feel bad for my children and grandchildren and their generations, and for all living beings.

OH MAN!

I feel so bad for these animals that are dieing off...

So sad!