Horrible, sad news

how much ******* plastic?

thats a bit more realistic

but this one is just ******* insane..

Reply 64

Aeolus

It's ******* disgusting that we have dumped so much **** into our oceans. But i suppose it wont start bothering people until they are affected by it. By then it will be too late though.

nice picture depicting the rising oceans, but how exactly is littering affecting the level of the oceans?

Reply 65

INTit

xands

I always knew the bird was equal to the word...

Have you heard the word about the bird ?
his mum fed it a lighter.

edit- cant resist. BIRD BIRD BIRD, BIRD IS THE WORD im saying
BIRD BIRD BIRD, BIRD IS THE WORD
Have you heard the word about the bird ? its dead.

Reply 66

yoyo462001

16

Lets have a concert to make people more aware of this ever present threat to the world.

Reply 67

fire2burn

The funny thing is how many people here after saying 'poor bird' are actually going to do a single thing to help the environment? How many volunteer to go litter picking on beaches, or give money to charities that attempt to clean up the seas? How many simply throw plastic bottles, can, beer can plastic rings in the bin without a care as to where they might end up?

It's all well and good saying poor bird before tucking back into your fillet of dead animal, gravy, and mash. But how many here actually make any attempt to change their lifestyle?

Those who say we can't do anything it's China's fault are simply deluded. China wouldn't be manufacturing half the crap that ends up in the sea if the west wasn't demanding utterly materialistic trash that nobody really needs.

Reply 68

bananacake14

16

Aw

This is so sad. It annoys me so much when people drop litter and stuff, what is the point? I think if more people saw these photos they'd think before they drop their litter.

Reply 69

edd360

15

This was mentioned in one of my lectures. It is pretty bad and I agree we should stop littering and polluting, but then again if a species of bird isn't able to tell the difference between food and plastic maybe they deserve to be wiped out - natural selection :/

Reply 70

Blátönn

3

Tangerine Dream

Here are a few photographs of the contents of the dead birds stomachs: (Warning dead bird photos)

Spoiler

From: http://chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?id=11

We need a Darwin award for birds.

Reply 71

MaceyThe

14

Anon the 7th

omg how sad :frown:

i hope we all learn something from this

Yeah - don't feed your offspring bits of plastic. :rolleyes:

No wonder 19 of the 21 species of albatross are threatened with extinction, feeding their chicks this sort of tat. :eek3:

Reply 72

Aeolus

2

ViolatedTreason

nice picture depicting the rising oceans, but how exactly is littering affecting the level of the oceans?

Rising oceans wut? It's actually a picture depicting the size of the pacific rubbish patch.

http://www.treehugger.com/galleries/2009/05/great-pacific-garbage-patch.php

Reply 73

py0alb

3

Unless you think mankind came from outerspace, I'm pretty sure we are every bit a part of nature as any other species.

What isn't "natural" is when we deliberately interfere with evolution to stop pandas going extinct because they're cuddly looking.

Reply 74

Aeolus

Rising oceans wut? It's actually a picture depicting the size of the pacific rubbish patch.

http://www.treehugger.com/galleries/2009/05/great-pacific-garbage-patch.php

ah.. nvm, it was on an angle.. i thought it was a continent being flooded..

i know about the massive swirl of ***** in the pacific, but it is no concern of mine tbh. its not affecting me, and me changing what i do is useless unless everyone else changes what they are doing too..

basically, there is nothing we can do, as people do not want to put themselves out to help stop something they cannot see..

Reply 75

fire2burn

Tuppenny

And, as someone elses said, there's way too much plastic in there than should fit in a stomach, surely? I don't believe those pictures haven't been tampered with.

You've clearly never seen an albatross then. They're built to swallow fish whole when they catch them, thus a lighter floating on the surface of the water which would look like a fish from up above could easily be swallowed in one gulp. Their stomachs are also built to store food for the long weeks that they are away from land, so in the grand scheme of things with the amount of crap that's floating in the sea it's fairly easy for them to build up large amounts of plastic in their stomach.

When they do return, you have to remember the chicks are fed via regurgitate so they basically just swallow whatever the parent brings them. In many cases a fair amount of what is brought back is plastic.

David Attenborough regularly campaigns for the plight of the albatross and if you've ever been to any of his lectures or speeches you'll find many of the images of dead or dying birds impacted upon by human rubbish that he uses were taken by him personally whilst travelling for his various documentaries. I think it's quite sad really, that you instantly jump to the conclusion that the images were doctored.

Reply 76

fire2burn

You've clearly never seen an albatross then. They're built to swallow fish whole when they catch them, thus a lighter floating on the surface of the water which would look like a fish from up above could easily be swallowed in one gulp. Their stomachs are also built to store food for the long weeks that they are away from land, so in the grand scheme of things with the amount of crap that's floating in the sea it's fairly easy for them to build up large amounts of plastic in their stomach.

When they do return, you have to remember the chicks are fed via regurgitate so they basically just swallow whatever the parent brings them. In many cases a fair amount of what is brought back is plastic.

David Attenborough regularly campaigns for the plight of the albatross and if you've ever been to any of his lectures or speeches you'll find many of the images of dead or dying birds impacted upon by human rubbish that he uses were taken by him personally whilst travelling for his various documentaries. I think it's quite sad really, that you instantly jump to the conclusion that the images were doctored.

that was doctored.. there is no room at all in that carcas for anything like organs..

Reply 77

matt1991

By insisting that they didn't alter or rearrange the contents of the birds' stomachs in any way alarm bells should immediately start ringing...

Reply 78

Nick_000

16

Damn, that ******* bird stole my lighter!

Reply 79

fire2burn