Shame On All Of Us

[ChillDoubt]

This on top after the horror of what the Japanese did last week just boils my ****

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-44344468

Whale dies after eating plastic bags.

[Mamyalynne]

The sooner all nations act on this the better, for many it's already too late.

[NoMercy]

Poor creature. I can't begin to imagine how much it suffered before it died. :-(

[237SJ]

When I shop in the US, the shop assistants still double bag. They don't seem to understand how detrimental plastic bags are to the environment. We can do our bit in the UK but that is a drop in the ocean unfortunately

[webbo3]

I wonder how much of the rubbish at sea comes from these things.

https://singularityhub.com/2011/04/05/10000-shipping-containers-lost-at-sea-each-year-heres-a-look-at-one-2/#sm.0001rq4eqjrvcfsgwk92kez8ysgoc

[Zacs-Master]

We’re all guilty.

[rockyracoon]

I think the same as you Webbo.
This happened in Australia a couple of days ago

The doors look open, and anything could be falling out on a massive scale.
We do still have a lot to do ourselves, though. But this needs sorting.

[Old_Geezer]

You may all be guilty; I didn't force-feed it plastic bags.
Let's not muddle up blame games with doing something about the issue.

[Gromit]

Perhaps the Japanese scientists could do some research into what is the safe doseage of plastic bags for Whales.

[Zacs-Master]

Nobody force fed it plastic bags, OG, that would be ridiculous. But if you’ve ever used a plastic bag, as I have, then we’re all part of the problem.

[hereIam]

Saddens me to the core because I already think it's far too late.

[naomi24]

^Me too.

[youngmafbog]

I'm with OG.

No point in finger pointing just get on and fix the issue.

[rowanwitch]

All we can do is reduce our usage, and try to educate people. Eventually somehow I hope someone finds a way to gather plastic in the same way they harvest fish from the sea, if we can stop more reaching the sea, and if someone finds a really profitable way of recycling then we might get somewhere. I think converting plastics to building materials might be the way forward. (You can already buy decking and fascia boards made from recycled plastic) Then we wouldn't need to take sand and rocks etc to build our homes. There are some brilliant minds out there we just need to embrace the new products as they come on stream.

[douglas9401]

This on top of guilt of empire. I'm not sure I can go on.

I'll give it a try though.

[rowanwitch]

I do not believe we should carry guilt for things that happened in the past, so many times it was the state mankind had reached and society evolves what was seen as a good thing once is abhorrent today, but we do have a responsibility going forward. I have no children. I could say I have no investment in the state of the world 50 years from now, let those with offspring deal with the issues. I could, but I want future generations to share this world with whales, turtles, elephants, etc. To know the joy of swimming in a clear sea, or playing on a plastic free beach.