Damn Americans!!
Yangtze East China Sea Asia
Indus Arabian Sea Asia
Yellow River Yellow Sea Asia
Hai He Yellow Sea Asia
Nile Mediterranean Africa
Ganges Bay of Bengal Asia
Pearl River South China Sea Asia
Amur Sea of Okhotsk Asia
Niger Gulf of Guinea Africa
Mekong South China Sea Asia
Link to orginal in the dailymail:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4970214/95-plastic-oceans-comes-just-TEN-rivers.html
No longer a problem:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/16/scientists-accidentally-create-mutant-enzyme-that-eats-plastic-bottles
Well ... would it help if we de-industrialize America and tax ourselves into oblivion? Because I suspect that’s going to be the suggested solution.
Lol! My leftie daughter just gave me a lecture on how horrible it was that Americans use plastic straws, because of the massive damage they do to the oceans. I told her I suspected they were a relatively minor contributor. Turns out dumb old dad was probably right.
Nice try science, you can't fool "social justice"...
Wait...wait “Pruitt...flew home in...coach-class seat.”
I wont’ call it “fake news” but this story seems like a lot of fluff wrapped around a very important message — Scott Pruitt likes Coach Class! First Class Hotels and Flights? It’s my secretaries fault!! Don’t Fire me! It’s (sob) not my fault!!
I think it is amazing that the Amazon is NOT in the top ten.
Doesn’t the Amazon drain more land mass then any other river?
Nope, nope.....not an East River nor a Cuyahoga nor a Charles in the bunch.
But...but...ALL pollution & global warming across the GLOBE is America’s fault! We all KNOW that!
Hand over the cash, Suckers!
Funny...when we hear the idiot talking heads telling us about pollution, global warming climate change we need look no further than these same countries where we are funneling American tax dollars to. These criminal dictators fill their pockets laugh and change nothing and hold no one responsible. What we get are imposters like the a##clown dumping regulation upon regulation tightening the noose around our necks, We are the fools!
Trump pulled out of the Paris Accord and all the Asians and Africans threw the plastic in the rivers in anger.
“The top 10 rivers - eight of which are in Asia”
Amazing that the author couldn’t be bothered with stating where the other two are, instead leaving the reader to likely conclude that USA is the unnamed guilty party, an impression which would likely remain even after seeing the map a little later in the article.
Nope, couldn’t add “, and two in Africa”. Had to leave room to imply Western guilt.
Exactly what I long suspected. Western media frequently show this horrendous mess in the Pacific ocean and imply, or come right out, and try to guilt the U.S. into believing that WE are the culprits. Usually such lamenting articles show the mass of plastic refuse and then immediately discuss how many plastic water bottles the U.S. consumes, suggesting we are responsible.
The fact of the matter is that the U.S. recycles a significant portion of our plastic waste or otherwise properly dispose of it. It is the Asian countries and other third-world countries who pollute with reckless abandon. Ever go to almost any third-world country? Almost all of them have trash all along every street with garbage piles everywhere.
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Now how is China supposed to keep their production costs low if you expect them to address polution problems like this?
On the plus side, no plastic is flowing out of the Great Basin...
But "justice" dictates that the United States must pay to clean it all up...