By Carmen Mato.
For the New York Times health section. - 19/07/16.
"The Earth doesn't understand of excesses and the human being is an excess".
-The impressive operation of tracking the flight MH370 lost in the Indian Ocean hasn't given good results yet. At least not the waited ones.
The pictures taken by the satellites reflect a worrying reality...
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The Guardian.- 08/03/14
"Big garbage heaps of the size of Brazil into the oceans". It's the way in that Rodrigo Gurdek, member of the Oceanography's chair of the Science University of "UDELAR" defines the "Trash islands".
He tells: "There are 5 big trash islands around the world. Each ocean has got at least a big one. The photos taken from the oceans show objects like scrap of vessels, rests of fishing equipment, plastic bags, cans, tanks and big plastic heaps".
These heaps form where the sea currents converge and, as increasing as turn because of the impact of the sea currents, accumulate more rubbish.
The magazine National Geographic states that almost the 90% of the rubbish into the 5 big islands is of plastics.
There are lots of plastics, bags, bottles, plastic stoppers, and so on and so forth.
"I've taken off rests of cigarettes of hundreds and hundreds of skeletons of birds", tells the oceanographer Silvia García. She also comments that the birds, turtles, cetacean, mammals and many other sea species are unintentional consumers of plastic.
Lots of these animals are consumed by the people too. For science is already impossible to clean a spot like that, so incites people to let throwing rubbish to the sea.
On the atoll of Midway, a remote island chain more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent, the consequences of our consumerism's massive areas are reflected in an amazing place: the stomach of thousands of dead baby albatross. They are fed by their parents with lethal amounts of plastics, that confuse the floating rubbish with food, so they eat through the polluted Pacific Ocean.
"For me, kneeling over their dead bodies is like watching in a gruesome mirror. These birds reflect a terribly emblematic result of the collective trance of our consumerism and industrial development out of control.
As same as albatross we, the humans of the first world, are faced with a surprising situation in that we lack the capacity of discerning what is feeding us and what is toxic for our lives and our spirits.
"Strangled up to the death in our residues, the Mitica Albatross calls us to admit that our major challenge is not there out, but herein ".
-Chris Jordan, Seattle, February 2011.
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"The Cove"
Rastgele"The Cove",name that sounds well. I'm sure that all of you have been on a beach with this name or have heard something about a place with it. I'm going to talk about a place in Japan where, every year our human traits are having a bloody bath... And...
