I wish them well. It feels good to be reminded that yes, there are still people out there trying to make things better. ❤️
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Everyone can be that. Stop eating meat and drop water-pollution, land-use and co2-emissions by two thirds. Less destruction, instantly.
Imagine one billion people doing that. Animal agriculture, one of the most evil industries, would shrink by a lot, our planet would change. No need for politicians, no need to spend a lot of money, no need to lobby. You just buy a different product next time you shop groceries at the supermarket. 💚
While yes, consuming less meat and especially cow (dairy, beef) is good for you and the environment, your 2/3 statistic falls a part with actual data
https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector
Get your statistics right or don’t say them at all. 
I meant 2/3 of your personal food emissions. I'm aware that this is not the solution, but it's a very easy step and no solution will be enough without us changing what we eat.
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I really need to stop making excuses and stop eating meat. I think I'm going to start tomorrow. I dunno why but this thread really is motivating me.
Even if you don't go meatless, dropping or severely limiting beef is a huge start.
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If it can get the necessary funds, that is. In a press release, the organization claimed that eliminating the patch once and for all would cost a whopping $7.5 billion
If you give me 7.5 billion i’ll do my very best to clean up the ocean too
This is /c/upliftingnews. I’ll take what I can get ☺️
That's like 0.8% of the US military budget for 2025. That's basically a rounding error
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this might be the only good environmental news i've read since we got rid of cfcs
Use Ecosia.com for web searches, they plant trees.
Ecosia.org is what it redirects to, but yeah I've been using them for a couple of years now and it is nice to see some positive work being done!
This is very good news! Please don't forget that even if the great pacific garbage patch doesn't exist, that doesn't mean that the ocean is clean. There are still lots of garbage in the ocean!
However everybody needs to work where the problem originates.
There's only four left to clean after this one.
In 2014, there were five areas across all the oceans where the majority of plastic concentrated. Researchers collected a total of 3070 samples across the world to identify hot spots of surface level plastic pollution. The pattern of distribution closely mirrored models of oceanic currents with the North Pacific Gyre, or Great Pacific Garbage Patch, being the highest density of plastic accumulation. The other four garbage patches include the North Atlantic garbage patch between the North America and Africa, the South Atlantic garbage patch located between eastern South America and the tip of Africa, the South Pacific garbage patch located west of South America, and the Indian Ocean garbage patch found east of South Africa.
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Finally someone attempts to remove the UK ❤️
They're going to be so embarrassed when they realize the garbage patch isn't even in the Pacific.
It was moved following brexit
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I still got microplastics in my balls.
Microplastics are stored in the balls
They can take away our Pacific garbage patch, but they can never take our ball micro plastics!
A thin film of plastic is all that protects our block and tackle from the 5g woke mind virus. Why else do you think we call it our "Junk"?
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Seems easier picking up trash by hand than taxing the rich for the project
So far, the nonprofit claims it has fished out a million pounds of trash from the patch, a mere 0.5 percent of its total. But within a decade, it says, it could ramp up its operations to get rid of it in its entirety.
Next year, the company will focus its efforts on establishing a "hotspot" map of areas in the ocean with "intense plastic accumulation."
While $7.5 billion may sound like a lot, it's less than one month's worth of Apple's profits last year, or a sixth of the bonus Tesla shareholders awarded to CEO Elon Musk.
or a sixth of the bonus Tesla shareholders awarded to CEO Elon Musk.
Disgusting. He tanked Tesla, and he gets a bonus?
To give him "motivation" to keep innovating and bring us to mars, supposedly. God there's no limit to the sheer stupidity of muskrat fanboys.
That's not possible unless you ban fishing nets
True, but let's not the baby out with the bathwater.
98% or 90% or even a verifiable 50% reduction is insanely amazing news
So far, the nonprofit claims it has fished out a million pounds of trash from the patch, a mere 0.5 percent of its total. But within a decade, it says, it could ramp up its operations to get rid of it in its entirety.
:-/
They're asking for $75B for the full project and currently relying on start up capital with a tiny fraction of that. Apple's "committed" $7.5B tentative to Ocean Cleanup Project raising the rest on short notice.
This isn't "on track". It's a pilot project that's in the middle of a Series B funding round.
Also - most critically - it's not clear in the article what they're doing with the waste they recover. Simply moving it around doesn't eliminate the garbage. And the project does not appear to include a budget for recycling or otherwise repurposing what they recover.
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Isn't the majority of plastic in the ocean caused by fishing?
It's the largest individual source, by far. Whether or not it accounts for the majority depends on the exact stats you're looking at
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This article is just over a year old...
Thank you for saying something! Can't believe I didn't check myself.
It also lead to me finding this: https://theoceancleanup.com/dashboard/
If I understand correctly, system 3 is the one most relevant to the great garbage patch. It's currently at port, and has been for nearly a year. Not sure what to make of this.
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They’re mostly thinking 10 years, but:
Better yet, if the nonprofit's latest technological ideas come to fruition, Slat suggests we could even clear the patch in just five years at a cost of just $4 billion.
Ultimately though it comes down to funding, and I’m not sure this is the administration with the stomach to fund these types of projects.
finally, i don't have to think even a second about my individually plastic wrapped candies
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Once it's cleaned up we should replace all the garbage with cum, so the fish can eat the cum.
I feel like there's a story behind that comment that I'm unaware of.
. . . w h a t
ONCE IT'S CLEANED UP WE SHOULD REPLACE ALL OF THE GARBAGE WITH C U M SO THE FISH CAN EAT THE C U M
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