I apologise for posting this link.

This is one of the most graphic of examples of the mans effect on his environment that you will ever witness.

I think you brownies need a dead set wake up.

http://www.ted.com/talks/capt_charles_moore_on_the_seas_of_plastic.html

I seriously doubt that you will be able to watch much of it, but I think you should.

thinker 2 thanks.
579, content,hasbeen is a grumpy old fella but ok if given a chance.
You, for your effort, in reporting the truth, got a load of grumpiness dumped on you.

Global ice melt will contribute 32 cm sea level rise by 2050, and releasing toxins. The biggest year yet for ice melt in the arctic. Ice melt will now move to the antarctic in increasing amounts. NASA says that is calculated at todays sea temperatures.

This link has a lot to do with the issues we may be facing today. About the pre-dinosaur Permian Mass Extinction event in our planets Pre-history.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDbz2dpebhQ

Even if your not a student of history,its a good watch.

We're not dinosaurs.
You know, I think some people are just addicted to what's called "Disaster Porn", the problem seems to be most serious in the over 50 age group, maybe they all retired too early and now spend too much time on the net. My old Dad has the same problem, he's got his subscriptions to New Internationalist and Green Left Weekly, his laptop and a coffee shop full of wrinkly friends who sigh and twiddle with their beards and say "What's to be done!'.
Every bloody day some old sad sack says to me something like, "Ooo, I'd hate to be raising kids these days, I worry about their future"...give me strength.

Being alive a little longer than you have, may not be as disadvantageous as you might like to imagine Jay of Melbourne. And of course "you'll be the last too know", in my case. (lol)

Only living longer than I have so far, will allow you the perspective I have already. This perspective is (even today), socially useful, and relevant to the time we exist on this earth individually.

Your references to "Disaster Porn addiction and summing up with the phrase "give me strength", ("an expression my grandfather used"), shows that even you can glean something(no matter how insignificant) from your elders, Jay of Melbourne.