Plastic Pastors: Great Pacific Garbage Patch (Part 2)

For my post: “Plastic Pastors | Environmental Myths In the Pulpit” (https://religiopoliticaltalk.com/plastic-pastors-critiquing-an-otherwise-great-sermon/)Show more

While I criticize some stats in the two excerpts of a sermon here, take note that both the pastor and the church involved are one of the better pastors/churches in our valley (SCV) and the whole of the message is not affected by this portion. This sermon was preached on 7-11-2010.

My main point is that when one goes to organizations that are driven by an almost eco-fascist drive or some emergent liberalism, you are going to get skewed stats. This sermon merely gives me the opportunity to critique eco-leftist ideology.

Chapter 6 of Patrick Moore’s book, “Pacific Garbage Patch,” is here: https://tinyurl.com/p78zcr5c

■ A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences could mean bad news for environmental doomsayers. Forget all those warnings about the million tons of plastic debris floating in the ocean. Ignore the photos that you think show the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Andres Cozar of the University of Cadiz in Spain is the man who once extrapolated the 1 million-ton estimate. Since then, however, he has led research that collected samples at 141 ocean sites. Cozar's new estimate: Between 7,000 and 35,000 tons of plastic are floating in the ocean. (The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Hoax | TOWNHALL: https://tinyurl.com/26xftfjf)

𝘛𝘏𝘌𝘙𝘌 𝘐𝘚 𝘕𝘖 𝘐𝘚𝘓𝘈𝘕𝘋 𝘖𝘍 𝘛𝘙𝘈𝘚𝘏 𝘐𝘕 𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘗𝘈𝘊𝘐𝘍𝘐𝘊 (SLATE: https://tinyurl.com/64f5x6nc)
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... Moore’s Garbage Patch would grow in size and fame in the years that followed. The plastic-plankton soup he’d first discovered in 1997—which oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer dubbed the “Eastern Garbage Patch” or the “Pacific Garbage Patch”—gained notoriety in a 2006 series for the Los Angeles Times that won a Pulitzer Prize. Its area had doubled: Now the patch was “twice the size of Texas.” (Some reports went even bigger.) As coverage intensified—the patch’s media profile peaked between 2007 and 2009—the soup coalesced into a garbage landmass with a more official name: the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch.” In 2007, the San Francisco Chronicle called the patch “a massive, eternal, slowly swirling vortex of noxious garbage the size of a continent and the shape of death itself, just floating out there in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, mocking life, humanity, God.”

But the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has always been less substantial than it sounds, less an island in the ocean than a big idea that floats around inside our heads.

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In a way, that’s the very problem the Great Pacific Garbage Patch helped to solve, when the concept was invented. Like its mirror image, the hole in the ozone layer, the patch squeezed and flattened all our worries, sequestering them in a far-off region of the globe.

That’s how and why the patch came into being, both as a fully fledged idea and a media phenomenon, at the turn of the millennium....
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𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄𝐒:
■ Garbage: Another Environmental Claim Proven to Be Hyped (WUWT: https://tinyurl.com/43zwcw6e)
■ There is no Great Pacific Garbage Patch (PATRICK MOORE: https://tinyurl.com/5n94f8jc)
■ Are We Really “Choking the Ocean with Plastic”? Tracing The Creation of An Eco-Myth (WUWT: https://tinyurl.com/53yymku7)
■ The Garbage Philosophy Behind the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Myth (THE FEDERALIST: https://tinyurl.com/2p92n4vz)