Comments on: Ocean critters to planet: You slobs are killing us!!

By: mary vecchio

mary vecchio — Sat, 03 May 2008 17:56:56 +0000

Marsha Walton, It would help if children had environmental classes but few do. Our schools simply don't have the resources, nor enough teachers who care! They have their curriculum and there just not enough hero's out there. It is children learning from parents what to respect and what not to respect. Teaching might help, better than no one ever raising their awareness. As to trash cans along beaches.It would help.Placed very close together. People on the average, don't want to walk to throw away anything. They just drop. A stiff tax should be added to cigarette cartons to cover the cost of damage and toxicity to waterways, and raised every year! . In observing folks who smoke, including some of my family, there is a fundamental psychological dis-respect for their own health. These people simply don't have any regard for environmental preservation . .. The education system simply doesn't have the resources to implement courses where-by students would become knowledgeable and hopefully raise their concern.Very few schools have those resources. So many families live from hand to mouth, live an exceedingly stressful life and certainly never think about the environment so in turn there is no good example being demonstrated to their children. Of course I have also seen the very wealthy also demonstrating they haven't any concern also.[ I say this with a great deal of experience as I go from town to town and watch children and young adults and older folks throwing whatever waste they have in their hands directly onto the pavement or ground where they have passed, in areas where there are trash cans available. ] Of course , I have also witnessed trash being thrown from vehicles also. Cigarette smokers freely without any thought, throwing their smoldering butts down anywhere. In Arizona, I constantly stomped on still burning butts ,along side our condo, and road, on very dry grasses. Of course that happens all the time in Fla. where I now am. In our home town, I have called in several times to report people throwing plastic bottles and other waste from their windows of their vehicles, with license plate numbers, and have never seen the item picked up. If the persons governing municipalities don't take action and fine people who consciously litter, how are those individuals to ever perhaps gain a realization of the need to care. I realize this letter does not get us anywhere but this is my experience and I am in my sixties, still observing a lack of conscience out there. There is a lot of media on these environmental issues and that gives me hope. . I who am fortunate enough to buy organic foods, see so many other people trying to go green; even though a third of them carry in their cloth bags to grocery shop, they drive themselves there in their gas guzzling ozone adding, SUV's and Hummers. But, it is a start. Good luck and thanks for your efforts in this cause, trying to salvage and re-start anything that is left on this beautiful earth. Mary

By: Franko

Franko — Thu, 01 May 2008 07:21:41 +0000

Now I know it all, How Mermaids came to be !
Discard for one species is the seed for another.

But, it is hard for Mermaids to smoke underwater.
Try fishfood, not cigarettes to charm a Mermaid.

By: ayanis.lindo

ayanis.lindo — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:12:30 +0000

Thats right ti believe in that.

By: ayanis lindo

ayanis lindo — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:12:01 +0000

Yeah Thats Right!!

By: Chance

Chance — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:15:52 +0000

Cigarettes butts?! thats disgusting! Why would people leave trash like that on a beach? Condoms? Used Condoms? Thats terrible

By: Franko

Franko — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:16:11 +0000

Garbage Mountains are arising world over.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950CE0DC143AF930A15754C0A9669C8B63

Now we are creating marine versions. How will the oceans adapt ?

"there’s hope: we will probably eradicate ourselves "
With Reinhard Mirkovich unable to observe his hopeful result,
Who will appreciate a zero human population world ?

By: Will

Will — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:03:21 +0000

If Plankton are do important to our atmosphere and to human kind, why don't the scientist try to farm these micro-organisms?

By: Reinhard Mirkovich

Reinhard Mirkovich — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:15:26 +0000

There is no shortage of slobs. Outside of Africa and some parts of Asia, we (in the USA) are probably the trashiest people in the world – by a considerable margin. Take a drive on any highway. Notice the McDonalds wrappers and Starbucks cups dotting the soft shoulder. Every couple of miles you'll see a plastic trashbag or two, flipped overboard from some pickup truck, split open and scatteringg its disgusting content. How about the streams of loose papers and other crap that pours out of garbage trucks on their way to the dump, the rusting appliances and auto wrecks that now populate our forests and yes, peoples' front yards.

The cigarette butts, casually discarded drink containers, used condoms, diapers, syringes, tires, miscellaneous car parts and all manner of effluvia everywhere are a sad testament to our absolute self indulgence and lack of care. But there's hope: we will probably eradicate ourselves in the next couple of wars and put an end to it all. Then, the planet may recover.

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:28:29 +0000

Then we can see if the smokers' lungs can be recycled along with the filters.

By: Barry in Texas

Barry in Texas — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:47:45 +0000

Can we recycle those cigarette filters? I don't think the slobs who discarded them would mind sucking smoke through recovered and reprocessed ones. Surely, aluminum cans aren't the only profitably recyclable commodity in the world.