Legendary Oceanographer Dr. Sylvia Earle On A Lifelong Fight To Protect The Oceans
The Climate Pod
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Plastic Pollution Is a Big Problem to the Ocean
We can't afford to waste materials. We re purpose them, sometimes reconfigure the plastics back to their base materials inthe recycling technologies. It doesn't happen out of nature. Maybe over long periods of time, there are microbes that'll figure out how to digest plastic and transform it back to basic materials like carbon and hydrogen and oxygen. But that's not happening any time soon on a scale that will be meaningful to solving the problems. So all things considered, as big a problem as plastic pollution is to the ocean and therefore to us, the bigger problem is what we're taking out of the ocean,. The removal of ocean wild life, the dismembering of these ego systems, the
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