North East of Hawaii, the ocean currents form a giant whirl pool of debris from around the Pacific, the scientific name is called the North Pacific Gyre. Itis one of the largest ecosystems on Earth, comprising of millions of square kilometres. Today itís better known as The Great Garbage Patch,in an area the size of Queensland, Australia where there is approximately one million tonnes of plastic spread throughout the ocean. Drag a net in any area of this part of the ocean and you will pick up toxic, discarded plastic. Photographer Chris Jordan has documented this phenomenon. l had been studydng for quite a while the phenomenon called the Pacific garbage patch. l was looking for a way to visualize it, it was really surreal to land on Midway, seeing that my worst hopes of what l would find there are true. These are all albatross chicks, hatched out of their eggs and the very first meal they got was deadly to them. What happens is, when the eggs hatch one of the parents goes out and flies looking for food. They search over this vast area of the paciHc and when they come back with is a belly full of toxic plastics, and they feed that to their babies. They die of starvation, malnutntion and chocking. Simply allow yourself to feel whatever it is you feel about this, without jumping to the way to solve it. Because l think we really need to feel these things, even if the feelings are uncomfortable, because those are the feelings that vill turn into the fuel and dnve passionate action n Chns Jordan.
Posted on: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 12:06:28 +0000