Epic Win for Marine Animals! Seattle to Ban Plastic Straws and Utensils by 2018

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1. No straws, used on the North American continent anyway, will end up in any ocean, unless you literally walk-up to the ocean and toss it in. Trash (solid or liquid waste) is regulated on this continent; all of it goes into landfills. I know, not an improvement, but you are reading from an ultra-conservative person. (BTW: I\’m non-political, so the words I choose, are not based upon that cult: the cult of politics). I teach and live by the 3-R\’s.

   Almost all ocean trash gets there via those who are on the high seas, and use it as their landfill (since there\’s no land to bury it in out there): Cruise ships, fishing boats, cargo ships, and so on; any floating ship with lots of people on them, and no way to dispose of their trash otherwise. And then there are countries that actually collect all their land-based trash, and rather than bury it, they take it out on huge barges and dump it in the ocean; on purpose.

   Personally I use glass straws at home; the fat ones made/used for milk shakes: I got them for my nutriblasts, but that\’s the only time I even use a straw at all; out in public I just drink right from the glass. 4 decades a coffee-house (*$) fan, and I still ask for a ceramic cup for drip coffee in store. Born in the late 50\’s, I was brought up to see straws as a kid thing, like bottles and pacifiers are strictly for infants: So I stopped using straws when I was about 10, and to this day I still feel a bit odd sucking on one in public.

   Ocean trash anywhere (but esp. the Great Pacific & North Atlantic garbage patches), seems to come mainly from people on these oceans; they use them as literal trash dumps. Look at U-tube videos about these garbage patches; horrifying. But to say no to plastic straws, is analogous to a commitment to reducing your pack-a-day tobacco habit by 1 cigarette a year. On the day you genuinely care about your personal health, I\’ll bet you a million that you will not smoke even one more during the rest of your life. We are what we do, and no more!

   All this is not about caring for Earth or its oceans; this is about getting attention; it is yet another manifestation of the epidemic of faux caring; this is all capitalistic or for-profit. The single act of owning and/or operating a car, is itself, a brazen scream out into the universe, of ones complete indifference to the local or global environment, and it is hypocrisy for the devotees of the car-cult, to even utter any protestations of caring at all, for the environment.

   But the guilt-ridden angrily seek self-justification, every waking minute, until something transformative occurs in their corporeal course to drastically alter how they live (on Earth) from that moment forward. In the meantime, everything is fodder, denial or distraction (e.g. Straw-less in Seattle). ~ A disciple of Messiah!

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