Walls have ears.
We are familiar with the world’s seven continents: Arica, Asia, South America, North America, Oceania, Europe and Antarctica. We live on these seven continents, however, except for these seven continents, a new continent is taking shape.
A scientific data shows that the pacific between hawaii and california there is a “new continent” is taking shape. It is actually the drifting body made of hundreds of tons of floating plastic and waste poumded against the sea, covering 1.4 million square kilometers. Scientists names it the “Pacific trash big plate”; media calls it the “eighth continent.” Among the inhabitants on this continent, there are American sneakers, Janpanese fishing net fragments, Canadian container shells, Korean rubber rings, Chinese plastic bags, etc, compiled as if in the “United Nations”. At presnet, this continent is still growing, it did not form solid land; Its area except the spreaded sea area outside 1.4 million square kilometres doubled over the past 10 years.
Overall amount of waste is more than 7 million tons. There are 3.3 million large and small plastic pieces per square kilometer of sea. It is more anxious that “trash continent” is not the only one among the oceans. Because the similar large-scale ocean current vortex in the world also has four; The scientist judges, they have accumulation of sea trash to varying degree. Hawaii is the bright pearl in Pacific and its view is like the heaven when you go there for travel; Guam’s coasts will not loss the much impression of “blue, clear and white”. However, a continent has been shaped near it. We are glad by too much beauties. The mankind is accustomed to take the ocean as a vast garbage dump and even look the open sea as the ideal garbage dump.
Various pollutants manufactured by human life and production are flew into the sea through rivers, ships, ocean dumping,submerges or floats on the sea, and then rushed to the beach or accumulated as above stated. The world’s coastline is floating a huge color band composed of coke cans, beer cans, milk cans, mineral water bottles, all kinds of cheap toys and plastic products. The state of some tourist sites is not so good, such as Hongkong, Dibai, the Red Sea, Gulf of Guinea, Mauritius, Seychelles and Pearl Beach in Maldives. There will be astonishing “non-low-carbon incidents” in the places people cherish most. Seabird was poisoned by eating wastes while marine biological organs died by strangulation.
The more frightening is the marine animals swallow the toxic pollutants and spread them through food chain, and the toxic pollutants are finally delivered to the most high-end–Above humanity’s dinner table! The founder of the eighth continent Charles Moore has ever said pessimistically that the plastic garbage in the Pasific Current system can’t be cleared off completely even using up the state’s total financial resource. Therefore, the majority of scientists all consider that the “prevention” is important than “regulation”; to prevent form the source is the most important.
Everyone is possible to be the maker of marine litter and be the sinner of “history” if you do not pay attention. Therefore, the maintenance of the environment and low-carbon life is up to me!