Videos/Articles

• President Teddy Roosevelt & John Muir
  https://vault.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/people/roosevelt.aspx
  At the end of the 19th century, these two men altered the course of the planet, by showing the importance of land conservation & preservation to not only our country but many other countries in the World that followed suit.
  
• Singapore May Have Best Solution for Ocean Garbage
  https://twitter.com/TRIVIANISM/status/1130143529877921793
• …This nimble, wealthy city-state…sends only 2% of its solid waste to landfill, burns 38% of it to generate electricity and recycles the remaining 60%.
  https://www.reuters.com/article/us-singapore-waste/in-singapore-where-trash-becomes-ash-plastics-are-still-a-problem-idUSKCN1J20HX
• PLASTIC KILLS PILOT WHALE: (Remember…these are mammals, like we are!)
  https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/06/whale-dead-plastic-bags-thailand-animals/
• Pregnant Sperm Whale Killed by Garbage:
  https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/04/dead-pregnant-whale-plastic-italy/
• https://www.countryliving.com/uk/news/a23559778/shearwater-chicks-bbc-drowning-in-plastic/

  https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/david-attenborough-plastic-pollution-oceans-blue-p/

  https://oceana.org/blog/remote-island-baby-albatrosses-suffer-diet-plastic-trash

• Mom Feeds Plastic to Baby:

Birds that swim to catch their food– like the penguin, albatross, shearwater, petrel, puffin, auklet, murre, and many others–gobble up plastic, Styrofoam, Q-tips, wrappers, and a myriad of other garbage that looks like food bits in murky water. Mass die-offs are occurring.

By some estimates, as many as 90% of sea birds have plastic in their stomach, leaching slow poison into their systems, destined to cause mass reductions in numbers and probable extinction of many: 

• Plastic Garbage Patch Bigger Than Mexico Found in Pacific
  https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/ocean-plastic-patch-south-pacific-spd/
  And, Henderson Island in the South Pacific was “crowned” the most polluted spot on earth, with at least 38 Million pieces of garbage on it.