alphacyberranger@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoOcean cleanup group removes record 25,000 pounds of trash from Great Pacific Garbage Patch in one extractionabcnews.go.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1229arrow-down14cross-posted to: upliftingnews@lemmy.world
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minus-squareparpol@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down1·1 year agoLet’s praise them some more so we can raise awareness and potential donations. 1000x the operation and we’ll get somewhere. I’m also fine with threatening countries with sanctions if they don’t reduce their plastic pollution.
minus-squareHazdaz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down4·1 year agoEven at 100,000x all you would be doing is treading water. This is how big the problem is and how utterly pointless this particular clean up effort was.
Let’s praise them some more so we can raise awareness and potential donations. 1000x the operation and we’ll get somewhere.
I’m also fine with threatening countries with sanctions if they don’t reduce their plastic pollution.
Even at 100,000x all you would be doing is treading water. This is how big the problem is and how utterly pointless this particular clean up effort was.