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by api 724 days ago
What you are seeing is a ratio of awareness and ease of solving the problem.

It’s a lot easier to stop throwing crap into the ocean than it is to replace a century of sunk cost in carbon emitting energy technology. We are plenty aware of climate change but almost don’t even want to face that challenge.

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This is my feeling, too. I'm all for clean oceans, but we shouldn't think that this is the biggest threat right now.