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We also need to remember that 75%+ of the plastic in the great big garbage patch in the pacific is from fishing.

But we also need to be clear that this is ALL our faults. We may say we dutifully collect our plastic bottles and separate them but do no further research to learn that most of it goes right to a landfill. We don't demand product packaging that is known to be easily recyclable, we want cheap and convenient. We don't demand clean water for other countries around the world anymore than we demand clean working conditions and humane treatment. Everything is out of sight, out of mind. We are so privileged that we forget ourselves.

Humans are a very selfish species and we keep losing sight of the fact that this planet can't support this many selfish humans. The planet is just now starting to fight back. We have been f'ing around and are now starting to find out and it won't be pretty. Until we get serious about sustainability writ large, we will continue to receive our comeuppance.