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Environment News:Article from 2018…
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We’re Drowning In Plastic Trash. Jenna Jambeck Wants To Save Us:
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Drowning in plastic
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“I see, like, a living breathing thing,” she says. “This whole system is actually an ecosystem. Microbes break down the organic garbage into its constituent chemicals. Metal corrodes and dissolves. Almost everything returns to the earth. Except …
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“Plastic,” she says with a sigh. “Plastic would be the thing that doesn’t break down.”.
.“…And as a child
I danced like it was 1999
My dreams were wild
The promise of this new world
Would be mine
Now I am throwing off the carelessness of youth
To listen to an inconvenient truth
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That I need to move
I need to wake up
I need to change
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I need to shake up
I need to speak out
Something’s got to break up
I’ve been asleep
And I need to wake up
Now
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I am not an island
I am not alone
I am my intentions
Trapped here in this flesh and bone…”
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“I Need to Wake Up” by Melissa Etheridge.
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Environment News:“Nature is a very strict accountant and always balances her books.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, The Songs of Distant Earth, 1986 novel
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