XPost: talk.politics.guns   
   From: kym@kymhorsell.com   
      
   In sci.environment buh buh biden  wrote:   
   > By Annie Roth   
   > May 6, 2022   
   > In 2019, the French swimmer Benoit Lecomte swam over 300 nautical miles   
   > through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to raise awareness about marine   
   > plastic pollution.   
   >   
   > As he swam, he was often surprised to find that he wasn?t alone.   
   >   
   > ?Every time I saw plastic debris floating, there was life all around it,?   
   > Mr. Lecomte said.   
   >   
   > The patch was less a garbage island than a garbage soup of plastic   
   > bottles, fishing nets, tires and toothbrushes. And floating at its surface   
   > were blue dragon nudibranchs, Portuguese man-o-wars, and other small   
   > surface-dwelling animals, which are collectively known as neuston.   
   >   
   ...   
      
   Must be hard for hillbillies to understand that when you kill off   
   key predators the "junk" species thrive.   
      
   Lots of Man O Wars means no sunfish or loggerheads within 1000 mi.   
   Kinda makes sense in a floating garbage dump.   
      
   The health of an ecosystem is judged by teh number of different spceies   
   thriving there, not the number of a couple of particular scavengers you   
   can find.   
      
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