Land Filling At Sea

HOMO SAPIEN SAPIENS is using, and has long been using the world's oceans as a garbage dump, dumping anything and everything into the blue waters as if by so doing the trash magically disappears, does not accumulate, does no harm. Plastics in particular are the problem. so large are the oceans, so much of the Earth's surface do they cover, that for as long as people have gone down to the sea, which is essentially since people were even more primitive primates than they are today, they have assumed that there is no possible way a dead body here or a ship full of cargo there could have any lasing impact on the apparently endless ocean. Hence, over the centuries, the bottoms of oceans have become littered with thousands of ship carcasses, tens of thousands of human remains, and all manner of human made artifacts, including items made of wood, metal, and plastic, you name it, we throw it away. Were you to take a long walk on the sea bottoms of the world,  you would not have to walk far to see something which some indifferent human tossed overboard. The Atlantic floor is littered with Spanish cargo, including gold bullion, both world wars left their mark, hundreds of military vessels full of human remains and objects of human manufacture. We are now beginning to have an understanding that, just like the resources of a finite planet,  the oceans are indeed limited in their capacity to absorb our trash. And its only getting worse. Contemporary humanity is the worst of all. Each year several million tons of plastic are dumped into the oceans, plastic which begins benignly enough in  your shopping cart, then goes through your kitchen, then into your garbage bag, into your weekly trash, your local landfill, and onto a barge, and into a large river or ocean. It all flows in the same direction, downstream, and the ocean is the final destination. Plastic is the modern problem, and recycling is not the answer. Less than ten percent of all plastic is recycled the energy cost is prohibitive. The answer is to stop manufacturing and using single, one time use plastic objects, like trash bags. Whales get tangled up in them. Micro plastic particles are an even greater problem. Because much plastic is ground down to  smaller and smaller particles, which keeps flaking off into ever smaller particles. the whole world, oceans and land, is filled with micro plastic. This includes every human body on the planet. About every week a credit card's worth of plastic is absorbed into your sexy body. Environmental  plastic pollution is as insidious and as great a problem as atmospheric carbon pollution, and if you don't already now how great a problem that is, and precisely what it causes, then you've been living on some other planet, probably a planet less beautiful but fare less threatened by human beings than the one human beings inhabit, for the time being.