Plastic Polluting

EVERY YEAR, we the human race dump roughly four hundred billion tons of plastic into Earth's environment, air, water, land, plants, animals. If nothing else, we are an equal opportunity polluter; we pollute everything, most shockingly of all, our own bodies. Four hundred billion is one of those enormous numbers, like the number of light years across the cosmos or number of stars in the galaxy, which defies one's ability to grasp and comprehend. That, indeed, is an enormous amount of thrown away plastic, and, as any high high school biology teacher will tell you, its unsustainable. If we keep doing it, we're going to dorn ourselvesand the Earth in plastic,and snuff out all life on Earth. You miight wonder how anyboyd can calculate with reasonable accuracy something like that, buth, they can. Perhaps they take an inventory of all the plastic manufactured in the world annually, by identifying the manufacturesrs and their output, and by assuming that every last atom and ounce of it will eventually, one way or antohter, end up as garbage tossed dismissively into a landfill, a river, a lake, or an ocean, all of which, everywhere, are full of it already, and can scarcely endure any more. As we speak we recycle about nine percent of all plastic we use,, and increasing that amount seems to be impossible, or highly improbable, on account of the energy required. But more will come. NOtwithstanding our increasing awarensss of the problem and a gradually matesticizing movement to do something about it, by the time we actually get to the point of actually doing something, anything about it, we and all life on Earth will have perished. Kinda like, say, climate change. Yes, we are sluggishly, belatedly beginning to take the climate change crisis by the horns and confront, but alas, We're doing too little, too late. Unless humanity suddenly lurches forward in a frenzied spasm of environment salvation measures, which is possible since anything is possible, we are toast, or soon to be. I recall reading or hearing somewhere that each day nearly everyone consumes enough plastic, presumably in or daily diets, to make a credit card. Or maybe it gakes longer than a single day to eat a credit card, but, make no mistake, we eat credit cards, at whatever rate, sickeningly. I recall listening to a lady who said that as a research project, she had her breast milk chemically analyzed, down to the last molecule, and was astounded at the amount of material it contained that under no circumstances should human breast milk contain. Among these, I discinctly recall, among the poisonous molecules in her milk; was, believe it ot not, jet fuel. Jet fuel. She swore that never in her life had she ever been anywhere near an airport, a jet, of jet fuel of any sort. This is incredibly alarming. What about the rest of us. Do we all carry traces of jet fuel in our bodies, and if so, what in the hell else might we find within ourselves? The induction seems to be,inducing from one woman's jet fueled breast milk, that, quite simply, everything ends up everywhere , everything IS everywhere. The exhaust from your automobile disperses widely with the atmospheric currents. The carbon we spew out daily, thirty billion tons annually, amazingly, ends up distributed equally throughout the atmosphere, gnenerally speaking. And thus, so it seems, it is with jetfuel and plastic.