thanks to
etc. without whom this would not have been possible
S.O.S.
don't let it get on top of you!
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thanks to
etc. without whom this would not have been possible
S.O.S.
don't let it get on top of you!
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what the critics said: 'slick'
what scientists now say: 'oil spills may linger indefinitely' (Source: Reuters News Service, 24 Oct 2002)
PS: Stating the overwhelmingly obvious, George W. Bush has admitted "America is addicted to oil" (State of the Union address, 31st Jan. 2006) ~ has he only just realized this?!
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circa 1978, while living by the sea. Looked at more literally (rather than litorally), consider what seabirds have to eat..... Photographic artist, Chris Jordan, did in his heart-breakingly beautiful film "Albatross" (2017):
Click pic? Young birds are dying from accidentally-ingested pieces of plastic, which strew the seas. |
| In "Gyre" (2009), he memorably recreates Hokusai's Great Wave off Kanagawa, with pieces of plastic for paint. The image is composed of 2.4 million pieces of plastic – the estimated number of pounds of plastic that enter the world’s ocean’s every hour.
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This piece I wrote about MARINE POLLUTION (again, from the late 1970s) sums up the problem with urgency
