If I remember correctly, Carl's beautiful Olympia Penninsula is being damaged
by the military exercises, I think it's the navy, that has been doing them
over the past few years. Or maybe it was the airforce? There have been a series
of articles about this on Truthout and I believe that a group of residents have
been protesting, attempting to stop the damage.
Miriam
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From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Evan Reese
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2018 10:11 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: While the Ozone heals, the great pacific garbage
patch grows
It says something here about an Ocean Cleanup Project. A little Googling brings
up many results.
Work is under way to fix it. It has just begun, so it may get bigger before it
gets smaller.
Evan
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From: Carl Jarvis
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2018 10:03 PM
To: blind-democracy
Subject: [blind-democracy] While the Ozone heals, the great pacific garbage
patch grows
While the Ozone heals itself, we have big problems down here on Earth's Surface.
Great Pacific garbage patch - Wikipedia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The area of increased plastic particles is located within the North Pacific
Gyre, one of the five major The Great Pacific garbage patch, also described as
the Pacific trash vortex, is a gyre of marine debris particles in the central
North Pacific Ocean.
It is located roughly from
135°W
to
155°W
and
35°N
to
42°N.
[1]
The collection of plastic, floating trash halfway between Hawaii and California
[2] extends over an indeterminate area of widely varying range depending on the
degree of plastic concentration used to define it.
The patch is characterized by exceptionally high relative pelagic
concentrations of plastic, chemical sludge and other debris that have been
trapped by the currents of the North Pacific Gyre.
[3]
Despite the common public image of islands of floating rubbish, its low density
(4 particles per cubic meter) prevents detection by satellite imagery, or even
by casual boaters or divers in the area. It consists primarily of an increase
in suspended, often microscopic, particles in the upper water column.
The patch is not easily seen from the sky, because the plastic is dispersed
over a large area. Researchers from The Ocean Cleanup project claimed that the
patch covers 1.6 million square kilometers.
The plastic concentration is estimated to be up to 100 kilograms per square
kilometer in the center, going down to 10 kilograms per square kilometer in the
outer parts of the patch. An estimated 80,000 metric tons of plastic inhabit
the patch, totaling 1.8 trillion pieces. 92% of the mass in the patch comes
from objects larger than 0.5 centimeters.
[4]
Research indicates that the patch is rapidly accumulating.
[5]
A similar patch of floating plastic debris is found in the Atlantic Ocean,
called the North Atlantic garbage patch.
