Plastic Contaminates 88% Of Our Ocean's Surfaces

We are extremely poor stewards of this planet:

Researchers studying the presence of plastic in the world’s oceans found plastic debris in 88 percent of samples taken from the ocean's surfaces at hundreds of sites around the globe, according to a new report published Monday.

Aggressive consumption and subsequent disposal of plastics since the 1950s has led to a visible accumulation of the nonbiodegradable material in the world’s oceans. The plastic products reach remote areas, including the open ocean, via storm runoff and littering.

“Ocean currents carry plastic objects, which split into smaller and smaller fragments due to solar radiation,” Andres Cozar, a researcher from the University of Cadiz in Spain, said in a release. “Those little pieces of plastics, known as microplastics, can last hundreds of years and were detected in 88 percent of the ocean surface sampled.”

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/7/1/plastic-ocean-microbeads.html

Plastic and radioactive contamination from nuclear bombs and power plants is EVERYWHERE. And if the oceans die, we die.

I'm not worried about "climate change", because we're likely to all be dead long before CC really takes hold.