Someone should start a business to explore the world through trash. Believe it or not, they are reached the deepest part of our world. Call it trash-cation.
A British research team from Newcastle University’s School of Natural and Environmental Science recently confirmed in Feb 2019, based on their research of the marine animals of the Mariana Trench, east of the Philippines are heavily containminated with micro plastic. Post dissecting the animals over 70% contained at least one plastic microparticle. These particles are not new trash that we threw in to the sea, as based on an analysis of its atomic bonds – they have changed due to time, perhaps several years. Years. YEARS!
Are you scared now?
The Mariana Trench can go as deep as 10km. Mind you the animals that were collected for the research comes from a habitat of 7km deep in the sea. I’m sure if James Cameron had some time, he would saw some trash down in the ocean during his deepsea challenge back in 2012. We have confirmation, not speculation that sea creatures have their bellys filled with plastic by product from our industrialization and commercialization.
If you put all the environmental bad news together, it is a grime outlook for our future generations:
- Food demand outpacing sustainable supply as population booms
- The earth’s level of carbon dixocide is increasing dramatically and there’s no telling when it will ever decrease
- Lost of biodiversity due to extreme deforestation, overharvesting, over-reliance on monoculture such as the cavendish banana. This issue isn’t about monoculture, but our losing battle with ever-lethal and dealth viruses, which is attributed to overuse of pesticides and chemicals.
- Global warming – we talked about it decades ago, we’re worry about it and now we are seeing its effects. Earth’s temperature is on course to rise by another 1.5 celcius and it is not going to reduce anytime soon.
You should be scared and angry now.
It’s simple – we have overdrawn from the world’s resources for our greed, under the pretext of world development and survival. We are too greedy for our own good. Earth deserves better than this. I’m angry, and I want you to get angry with me to start fixing this.