RE: Scientists say the Great Pacific Garbage Patch now thrives with life

DAB — Fri, 13 May 2022 20:44:03 GMT

A good example to show how the planet actually compensates for our throw away society by creating an environment from an unexpected problem.

I too deplore that fact that the accumulated plastic exists from our foolish practice of making things to just throw away.

Personally, I would prefer to go to glass or aluminum reusable containers and entice recycling with a deposit. I collect bottles when I was a kid for spending money. I discovered the mother lode was beer bottles over soda bottles.

I can see where the floating plastic would create an artificial floating island, which would have a lot of benefits for some types of marine life.

Over time, they would also trap surface dust to create soil in which plants could live and grow.

We forget that nature understands how to change to survive. Too many people think that we can preserve the current state of the planet forever. They are ignorant of the geologic record that identifies only two steady states for the planet, cold earth and warm earth. We are currently transitioning from cold earth to warm earth. I prefer warm earth, it provides a much more livable environment for life, gives us a lot of arable land, fresh water via rain nearly daily with no snow or ice.

If you are concerned with the current cycle of change, then you have to understand that the transition has another 35,000 years to go. There is no need to panic.