Skip

If you wanna see one hellofa garbage patch, check out the huge mass of crap coming to the US West Coast from Japan's tsunami. The first few big items have already started to come ashore, but the biggest mass is coming this winter.

One day when the seas are dead, the survivors (if there are any) won't understand what they lost, how things once were. They will be too busy hunting and eating each other to care.

Dude111

Quite sad but most likely true Skip

Aesthete

I agree plastic pollution is a serious concern. It's a personal concern of mine. We should start using less plastic and/or using biodegradable plastics. The plastic in the oceans will break down, if not through biodegradation, then through photodegradation (of course, this creates toxic byproducts, but the nature of the issue is fundamentally altered). The planet will reverse the damages, so saving the planet is really a misnomer as it's applied to environmental concerns - it's really more about human impacts. Anthropogenic environmental disturbances will prove detrimental to some forms of life, but, in a classic survival of the fittest way, life will go on because the species less vulnerable will continue to exist.

 outthere2

Wow! That's a big one.

I'm guessing the only way to raise consciousness is through education. How else could you do it?

 outthere2

Start with the causes of complacency...

Overwork

Underpaid

No time because of overwork

No money because underpaid

Ok, now that's resolved we have a solution...

Get a good paying job so we'll have more time to be politically active.

thedope 

People prefer comfort to causes.

 outthere2

I was just joking but serious too.

My guess about the problem of complacency is that it has do with western lifestyle brought to us by corporate media.

There's a reason why it cost big money to get a message out. The high cost keeps undesirable messages suppressed.

snowtiggernd

You can lead iformation to the sheeple
But you cant make sheeple think

 outthere2

the dickens you say...

 Aerianne

Someone said, in another thread, that it might be helpful to stop considering others as "sheeple". I agree that it automatically sets up a mind set of superior knowledge and that puts anyone you attempt to talk to about things in a position of defense. Not the best way to win others over to a cause even if you don't call them that to their face. It probably still comes across as a bit condescending.