Plastic Island: How our throwaway culture is turning paradise into a graveyard

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I would encourage people to watch the video at the link. It's a huge eye opener.

Plastic Island

How our throwaway culture is turning paradise into a graveyard

By Nick Paton Walsh, Ingrid Formanek, Jackson Loo and Mark Phillips

Midway Atoll, North Pacific Ocean (CNN) -- The distance from humanity yawns out in front of you when you stand on the pale sands of this tiny Pacific island.

Midway Atoll is just about the furthest piece of land from civilization and its constant engine whir, data and jostle.

Standing on the island's remote shoreline brings a calm and humility -- until you look down at your feet.

On the beach lies a motorcycle helmet, a mannequin's head, an umbrella handle, and a flip-flop. They didn't fall from a plane or off a ship, and there aren't any civilians living here who could have left them behind.

They were washed in with the tide, most likely from China or the US, thousands of miles away -- part of an enormous plastic garbage patch, spinning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which you probably contribute to. And these are just the bits of it we can see....

Read more and video here:
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2016/12/world/midway-plastic-island/

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1. I'm glad I'll be dead

Before the planets coming devastation. I've done what I can I don't want to live to see it.