Finally, ocean cleanup!

[whispercricket]

The massive amount of floating plastic bits in the ocean has made me sad for a long time - now someone's doing something about it!

https://www.theoceancleanup.com

Here's hoping their pilot goes well. :)

Comments

[wispfox]

Yeah, I'm definitely glad people are trying. I am worried about the marine life, myself. Partly because it is damned hard to _not_ injure it doing something like that; ecosystems are both surprisingly resilient and unfortunately fragile. And I don't know which would apply here.

[artan]

As it is with all complex situations, likely some faction of both. I tend to think that even with damage caused by cleanup it will still lead to a preferable outcome than non-cleanup.

[whispercricket]

Agreed - I'm just not sure where it falls - is it like wind farms, where iirc if properly done, the impact on wildlife is less than what currently exists from conventional power plants but that's still used as an argument against, or is it a bigger issue that needs to be addressed? I just hope that a real environmental impact study that isn't biased either way can be done (but these days, I always kind of consider studies biased one way or another, which I guess is human but makes science more difficult...).

(True thanks again for giving me the counterpoint, btw.)

[wispfox]

Yeah, it's all really complicated. I suppose we see what happens, like everything else? :/