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in a study published yesterday in plos one, researchers at the five gyres institute concluded that more than 5 trillion plastic pieces weighing almost 270,000 tons are afloat in our oceans. said one of the study’s authors, “it’s an important first step to bringing awareness that the entire ocean is a plastic soup.”  

the pieces of garbage - be it bottles, toothbrushes, bags, toys - gather at massive garbage patches known as gyres where ocean currents converge. brittle from exposure to the sun, they then collide against one another, breaking into smaller and smaller bits of plastic, some of which are ultimately consumed by marine life. 

on midway atoll, a remote cluster of islands more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent, this detritus ends up inside the stomachs of thousands of baby albatrosses. the nesting chicks are fed lethal quantities of plastic by their parents, who mistake the floating trash for food.

notes photographer chris jordan, "kneeling over their carcasses is like looking into a macabre mirror. like the albatross, we [the consumers and polluters of this world] find ourselves lacking the ability to discern anymore what is nourishing from what is toxic to our lives and souls.“

i was playing mccree on all heros and rev’d a genji and he fucking said “you’ve saved me again doctor ziegler”

My shotguns are better than my own Children