http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/betterplanet/2008/02/22/the-synthetic-sea/ Thomas Kostigen files dispatches from the most environmentally tenuous and significant places on Earth. Benjamin Nugent files dispatches from the environmentally astute corners of the blogosphere. Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:33:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/betterplanet/2008/02/22/the-synthetic-sea/#comment-670 merk Mon, 07 Jul 2008 04:21:12 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/betterplanet/2008/02/22/the-synthetic-sea/#comment-670 i know... my dad didnt take it seriously until i showed him how big it is compared to the golden gate bridge (up to the road). oh great article though ^^ i know… my dad didnt take it seriously until i showed him how big it is compared to the golden gate bridge (up to the road). oh great article though ^^

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/betterplanet/2008/02/22/the-synthetic-sea/#comment-6 Brigitta Cuadros Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:46:11 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/betterplanet/2008/02/22/the-synthetic-sea/#comment-6 Of all the disasters including extinctions, global warming, fire, flood, earthquakes, disease, war and famine I have read and heard about, none affected me more deeply than your article in the July 2008 issue ‘Better Planet’ regarding the garbage patch. I have not cried in a long time, but this time I did. It seems insurmountable and hopeless to clean up a mess of this magnitude. I want to tell my grandchildren, that in order to spare their offspring (and mine) a disastrous life on a dying planet, not to reproduce. It has been said that the meek shall inherit the earth and I don’t want my family to be part of the meek. We might be able to prolong our life on this planet to go out in a whimper or we could go out in a bang. It is not in the hands of god, but in the hands of man kind, who had done too little too late. Of all the disasters including extinctions, global warming, fire, flood, earthquakes, disease, war and famine I have read and heard about, none affected me more deeply than your article in the July 2008 issue ‘Better Planet’ regarding the garbage patch. I have not cried in a long time, but this time I did. It seems insurmountable and hopeless to clean up a mess of this magnitude. I want to tell my grandchildren, that in order to spare their offspring (and mine) a disastrous life on a dying planet, not to reproduce. It has been said that the meek shall inherit the earth and I don’t want my family to be part of the meek. We might be able to prolong our life on this planet to go out in a whimper or we could go out in a bang. It is not in the hands of god, but in the hands of man kind, who had done too little too late.

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