Yup--but we know that most folks will look at this & think "Those People"--not thinking about the trash or pollution they themselves generate-- in north america we pay a lot of people to "Clean" it up for us--but have you noticed that everyday there is Fresh trash in the streets/parks ect -Someone else cleans it up so we just keep dumping it anywhere-Just look at all the masks /fast food garbage ect ect in parking lots ect ect-- Gotta keep the car clean but to lazy to put stuff in the garbage can-

Your username made me smile 😊. I've been seeing all kinds of signs lately that I need to reread HG2G...

Probably not. Most people are extremely good at ignoring problems and extremely bad at preventing them. Take climate change, for example.

Isn't this picture enough of a hint?

I think people would be surpriced, how much garage would return, just garage Island or "plasticisland" you can litterally walk on it, and it goes All the way down to the bottom, in a very huge area! So Sad! 😪

It looks to me that it is trying. . .

You....have that much trust in humanity? The same humanity that willingly let it get this bad?

Oh but we do/ The world just doesn't give a damn (majority)

Pretty good example of the damage we do to our waterways in the Nature Gives Back photo.

When I was there (Bombay) in 1984, the water was virtually raw sewage.

I wonder how much of the world would disappear if all of the trash came back onto the shores..could you imagine!?

really though! if they gave it all back, maybe some of us can step forward and clean it!

it just did.

you're an optimist, aren't you?

we wont care

Seeing a good example of some here, shameful.

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Oh but it can. And it will.

She's giving it back, all right. Often more subtle, the message is the same.

Nope, most would just blame someone else for it.

Does anyone remember the tsunamis in Japan and elsewhere in the world several years ago? Do you remember seeing the videos of all the trash and objects that washed off of Japan into the ocean? Well that is where most of it originated, as well as from cruise ships. Some of it also came from the Chinese barges who bought trash from other countries to take it to their country. Most people don't throw trash in the ocean and everyone I know throws their trash in a trash can, not in a parking lot.

Evidently not so, if the annual monsoon season does it and no one changes.

Perhaps. Then we'll throw it back in.

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We see only what we want to see.

Yes, if only !!!

You can't damage nature. You can only take part in it.

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Problem is I doubt India chucks much of the stuff in.

AMEN SISTAH! That is so very true...just go SCUBA diving almost anywhere on the planet and the plastic is always there. I've been diving since 1968, and worked with an Underwater Cinematographer and have been diving all over. It has gotten SO MUCH WORSE. I fear for every living being. It has to stop!

I have donated to ocean charity (and went to credible sources to figure out how to find credible charities)

But it is think about how much Carbon dioxide we put into the air and smog that causes health risks that shorten the life expectation so let's start small by cleaning Beaches and polluted inland areas and plant trees and clean waters use less electricity and water because we can't just have a few groups and except it to solve it we need almost everyone to come together and help.

Probably a baby. Could be human. We don’t give a damn about that either.

I’m glad he’s O.K.

Earth is not healthy just think about how much Carbon dioxide we put into the air and smog that causes health risks that shorten the life expectation so let's start small by cleaning Beaches and polluted inland areas and plant trees and clean waters use less electricity and water because we can't just have a few groups and except it to solve it we need almost everyone to come together and help.