What Goes Around Comes Around


While the planet appears already to brace itself for a planned 2nd wave of covid19 and more lockdowns until mass vaccination becomes available, there is a real apocalyptic threat lurking.

Our plastic ordeal is NOT going to end any time soon. The reality is that all countries must ban all plastic production (but which for plumbing and construction) until we can fully resort to a circular economy. In the meantime recycling what we have could help a little bit but that would imply more chemicals to do that.

We have painted ourselves into a corner.

This "plastic judgment day" is a good example as to why science must be reevaluated and scientists will have to work for smaller salaries and forget about any incentives for good, until the planet goes money-free. Fame and wealth cannot be the drive because it gives people bad ideas. Ideas that doom the future when the "now" comes first. Society has been doing this for much too long. Society is not empathy-driven but a Death Cult as expounded upon in our video "We Are Creating The World".

However, this latest study, and should we fail to take action urgently, can be seen as one of the last nails into the coffin.

"What goes around, come around" as the proverb says.

The planet is a sentient organism and anything we neglect comes back to haunt us. Fast fashion is as much destructive as single-use plastic. This study contends that *on average, 4 percent of captured atmospheric particulates were actually synthetic polymers... 30 percent of the sample particles were microbeads* that are found not only in beauty products but industrial paints. On top of that, and since all the plastic and synthetic fibers eventually end up in the oceans, the seafloors are blanketed with particles when the currents slow down.

In the meantime, scientists are still wondering about the health impact as a result of inhaling microbeads and microfiber dust. Of course, they know! They just would hate being regarded as the instigators behind another "crash and burn" stockmarket episode and lose their paychecks as a result. They also have to protect Academia from being tried for crimes against humanity, which would make their college degrees look worthless. Earth Custodians believe in holistic sciences for a greater good.

This is the Wetiko virus in action. Nobody will take the responsibility to do anything because such an announcement would be followed by an instant and massive uprising initiated by people who've got nothing to lose.

Eventually, we the people of the earth will have to take the matter in our own hands and prepare for it because impulsivity will not lead anywhere. We need to prepare with our neighbors first and start growing food, outdoor and indoor, and stock up enough water so that we can survive when we decide to boycott consumerism en mass...

We regard plastic pollution as one of the main drives of the Day of Reckoning. The most important one is, of course, all kinds of human trafficking. Then comes the downfall of the education system that will ripple through and collapse the current notion of the word "cultures" as it is obvious that everything is interconnected.

It will be a silent revolution ending with a bang. The real solution lies in dealing with the totality of life. No more separations!

Plastic Rain Is the New Acid Rain (June 2020)

Researchers find that over 1,000 metric tons of microplastic fall on 11 protected areas in the US annually, equivalent to over 120 million plastic water bottles.

Writing today in the journal Science, researchers report a startling discovery: After collecting rainwater and air samples for 14 months, they calculated that over 1,000 metric tons of microplastic particles fall into 11 protected areas in the western US each year. That’s the equivalent of over 120 million plastic water bottles. “We just did that for the area of protected areas in the West, which is only 6 percent of the total US area,” says lead author Janice Brahney, an environmental scientist at Utah State University. “The number was just so large, it's shocking.”

It further confirms an increasingly hellish scenario: Microplastics are blowing all over the world, landing in supposedly pure habitats, like the Arctic and the remote French Pyrenees. They’re flowing into the oceans via wastewater and tainting deep-sea ecosystems, and they’re even ejecting out of the water and blowing onto land in sea breezes. And now in the American West, and presumably across the rest of the world given that these are fundamental atmospheric processes, they are falling in the form of plastic rain—the new acid rain.

Plastic rain could prove to be a more insidious problem than acid rain, which is a consequence of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions. By deploying scrubbers in power plants to control the former, and catalytic converters in cars to control the latter, the US and other countries have over the last several decades cut down on the acidification problem. But microplastic has already corrupted even the most remote environments, and there’s no way to scrub water or land or air of the particles—the stuff is absolutely everywhere, and it’s not like there’s a plastic magnet we can drag through the oceans. What makes plastic so useful—its hardiness—is what also makes it an alarming pollutant: Plastic never really goes away, instead breaking into ever smaller bits that infiltrate ever smaller corners of the planet. Even worse, plastic waste is expected to skyrocket from 260 million tons a year to 460 million tons by 2030, according to the consultancy McKinsey. More people joining the middle class ineconomically-developing countries means more consumerism and more plastic packaging. FULL ARTICLE: https://www.wired.com/story/plastic-rain-is-the-new-acid-rain/

FURTHER READINGS
(2018) Microplastics Are Blowing Into the Pristine Arctic. In snow samples collected across the Arctic and Europe, researchers find tens of thousands of microplastic particles per liter of snow—even in remote areas. https://www.wired.com/story/microplastics-are-blowing-into-the-pristine-arctic/

(May 2020) Researchers uncover highest-ever amount of microplastics on ocean floor. Researchers have uncovered the highest-ever concentration of microplastics on the seafloor. According to a new study in the journal Sciencefeet in the Mediterranean Sea.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/highest-ever-concentration-microplastic-ocean-floor-plastic-pollution/

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