Before this trip, I was never all that crazy about the ocean. I’ve always appreciated the fact that it generates the majority of the world’s oxygen and keeps us nice and far from places like Britain, but in terms of any sort of awe or “respect” it just never happened. I would say I looked at it less as the primeval womb of all terrestrial life than as an excessive amount of water you sometimes have to fly over.
Part and parcel with this was my attitude toward the Pacific Garbage Patch, or as we willfully misidentified it for the duration of our journey, the elusive Garbage Island. All the journalism I’d read about the patch had carefully danced around physical descriptions of the trash, leading myself and the rest of the shooting crew to fanciful visions of a solid, Texas-size barge of discarded Coke bottles and sporting goods. The idea that people had managed to fuck up a part of the world that nobody even visits, much less inhabits, and on such a monumental scale struck me as interesting and, to be honest, slightly awesome-sounding, but at the end of the day the impact of the mess on the rest of the world failed to register. I mean, sure, sea birds choking to death on deflated balloons and sea turtles whose shells have been completely deformed by soda can rings (click here for a picture of this if you want to completely ruin your day)—all this definitely sucks, but so do a lot of things, you know?
Needless to say this whole voyage ended up overturning my expectations about the Garbage Patch, as well as just about every misconception I’ve ever held about the sea, environmentalism, consumption, barfing, knots, pollution, humanity, and myself. After absorbing the myriad dangers of our plastic-heavy lifestyles for three weeks, I’m now a proud, carbon-conscious “Earth Warrior” who yells at grocery clerks for double-bagging my produce and carries around one of those 70s gunnysacks to drink out of. Just kidding, however, the trip did lead me to ferret out a group of non-hippie environmentalists who you can read about here. I also finally got into Earth Crisis. Pretty decent.
VBS CORRESPONDENT THOMAS MORTON
PS: All the music in this series is by Brighton, MA’s HELIOS off their Eingya album on Type Records. If you like it, you can check them out here.
Nice, written well, clear and effective. Enjoyable to learn from sideways media stating subtle content. The dearth of life may spook some but the garbage is worse. Thank you.
Posted by: stvndvs | April 17, 2008 at 07:30 AM
I like hippy environmentalists.
What I can't figure is that your strapline is "Rescuing you from television's deathlike grip" yet your shows are full of adverts, or are just adverts (Adidas!).
So much for "rescuing" people.
:-(
Posted by: Keith Farnish | April 29, 2008 at 10:01 AM
http://firewolf.megablog.it/item/great-pacific-garbage-patch-current
EGR DOCTOR
I'M JUST BACK AND PLACED ON MY BLOG (IN ITALIAN) THIS HIS ARTICLE
MI WISH THAT IN THE FUTURE CI IS GREATER COOPERATION BETWEEN OUR SITES
Posted by: firewolf2 | May 21, 2008 at 04:26 PM
Hey fellow fucking ocean lover! How do I fucking show this fucking website to my fucking high school bio class with you swearing like a sailor? Well-planned. Bra-fucking-vo.
Posted by: Daniel Fausto | June 09, 2008 at 12:31 PM
Hey fellow fucking ocean lover! How do I fucking show this fucking website to my fucking high school bio class with you swearing like a sailor? Well-planned. Bra-fucking-vo.
Posted by: Daniel Fausto | June 09, 2008 at 12:32 PM
Hey fellow fucking ocean lover! How do I fucking show this fucking website to my fucking high school bio class with you swearing like a sailor? Well-planned. Bra-fucking-vo.
Posted by: Daniel Fausto | June 09, 2008 at 12:32 PM
Calm down danny. Psycho.
Posted by: Conan | June 09, 2008 at 08:38 PM
Calm down danny. Psycho.
Posted by: Conan | June 09, 2008 at 08:39 PM
Move on, its been done,clean UP all this massive dirts garbage we all creats, so stop going on about it.CLEAN UP thats all we can do from now on.And start creats more and clean fresh Air Engine boats and more that we can all survive on it in better clean FUTURE.Nothing will help us all if we keep JUDGING all our self in bad failure attitude thats here now. Lets WORK TOGETHER AND HANDS IN HANDS TO SOLVE THIS MAN MADE DISASTERS WE ALL IN TOGETHER ON THIS.THANK YOU.
Posted by: Newday New World The Future | June 13, 2008 at 02:08 AM
Daniel's right. A vast audience that could have been educated and perhaps influenced by your work will never see it because of your constant and careless (and pointless) use of the F bomb. Sad.
Posted by: Greg | June 29, 2008 at 03:24 PM
Just found this site/project. So happy to see someone devoting themselves to it. We have to assume the final product will be a masterpiece and this is a work in progress. The problem is just fucking overwhelming and if I were there, literally in the middle of it, I might drop a few F bombs too.
www.jpstudiollc.com
Posted by: Joan | July 13, 2008 at 01:56 AM
Ok,,so how do we start to capture and clean this mess up ? Big trawlers? the Navy? I know it's huge but that's how you start on a big problem,a little bite at a time,it's the least we can do after all,,
Posted by: head hair | September 19, 2008 at 02:49 PM
we can fix this,and there is away to make money as we clean it up,and at the same time we can draw attention to the problem.
Posted by: Steve Hall | November 11, 2008 at 05:02 AM
you are my hero. i want to save the world.
Posted by: Samantha | December 06, 2008 at 03:32 AM
How can i get a hold of these people who go out and do research??? Please contact me back..I would really like to find out how I can be involved. Thanks!
Posted by: Samantha | March 20, 2009 at 08:08 PM
Come to Britain you pencil-necked wanker and we'll tear you a new "awsome" hole. Cretin.
Posted by: OLIM | April 12, 2009 at 10:01 AM
Yikes! The garbage is BAD. But how can we show this video to people who can help stop pollution (the youngsters) with all the SWEARING! My god, you seem more intelligent than that. Find more creative words, and please edit your video or creatively bleep or change the words in Post. Please. You've done a great service and then you sabotaged yourself and your project.
Posted by: Jeannine | April 23, 2009 at 07:02 PM
Such a serious situation whose story needs to be told. Kudos to these folks for going out there to see for themselves. BUT the whole impact of the story is ruined by the inept journalistic style and unnecessary use of garbage language by Morton. Can't use this vid in any learning environment. Twit!
Posted by: DBH | April 23, 2009 at 08:16 PM
That's funny...I was going to make a comment about the potty mouth guy from watching just the 1st 6 mins...I wonder how many f-word comments there will be by next week? Although it is a shame...is there a G rated version?
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