[MD] Easter Island's "Unintentional Consequences"

[ian glendinning]

Hi Arlo,

I can confirm from my own anecdotal experience that waste
non-bio-degradable plastics are everywhere around the world, not just
the seas. I'm not surprised people are studying it seriously.

That Calvin and Hobbs quote reminds me of Terry Bisson's "Thinking Meat"
http://www.terrybisson.com/meat.html

Ian

On 3/20/08, Arlo Bensinger <ajb102 at psu.edu> wrote:
> All,
>
> Speaking of Easter Island and "unintentional consequences" of social
> mining rather than gardening the biological level, I've been reading
> more about this "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" (The Pacific Gyre), and
> the growing amount of toxic plastic particles being "mistaken" as, or
> consumed with, plankton by smaller fish and birds, and the
> unintentional consequences this may have.
>
> Check out this short video on youtube:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Verhi88kR60&feature=related
>
> I'll tie this into my recent remark about the "rarity" of intelligent
> life in the cosmos by quoting Calvin & Hobbes. "Sometimes I think the
> surest sign that there is intelligent life out there in the universe,
> is that none of it has tried to contact us yet."
>
> Arlo
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