Millenials Solving Problems

THERE ARE MORE TONS of plastic than fish in the world's oceans. We add eight million tons a year, a truckload every minute. American conservatives do not believe the plastic is actually there, they believe that it is a liberal hoax, but it really is there. Huge clumps of it float freely. Conservatives believe that no matter how much plastic we dump into the oceans, it doesn't matter, because the forces of nature will simply "take care of it." They won't, of course. We need to clean it up before we drown in it. A twenty one year young man in the Netherlands has just the plan to get the job done. He's been working on his plan since he was seventeen, and he has a lot of support, financially, thanks to the internet, and good old Dutch ingenuity. He claims he can scoop up and recycle about half the world's oceanic plastic garbage within about ten years, using a large system of V shaped nets in the Pacific. This Dutch kid'll put his system into place, the ocean's will become clean, problem solved, and our conservative American colleagues will claim that there was never any problem in the first place, bless their little hearts. That's fine, no matter. The good news is that the generation known as the "millenials", those born between 1982 and 2000, are starting to shine. We of the previous generations gave them the problems, and they'll give us the solutions. They have no intention of living a their lives watching the planet be destroyed.