hasn't a kid come up with an invention to fix the garbage patch though

What?

That was one lone individual. No governments, or any other organizations are trying to help.

His invention is never going to be enough without multinational support of many governments.

yeah but that was on themedia when it happened, and I think they are trying to implement it?

The idea is sound in prinicple but to be any good, it has to be implemented on a scale that can only be done by an alliance of governments.

Damn pro-lifers, everything is their fault, there are too many people around and they still want more.

so they haven't done anything about it?

@Katnipkitkat Agreed.

population growth is influenced by fertility and life expectancy

@vegeta pretty sure he was sarcastic

and we all know what contributes to that..

Let's purge this world!

purge all the Negros

Keep in mind that most develop governments are heavily bought and paid for by the very same corporations causing the Garbage Patch. So they effectively block funding for projects like the one you've heard of.

@Avitoast And so was I.

@vegeta or were you

well the idea is that the garbage flows with the current which goes around all the oceans, which is why it's a patch, so if you have the structure in one or two sectons, wouldn't that make a bigger difference then nothing?

@Avitoast or are you?

The patch is enormous and the plastic has broken down so small that it'd take an astronomical level of effort to deal with.

But if we were, say, as determined to do it as we were to get to the moon, we'd be able to do it within a decade.

And that makes it a problem to deal with.

A fixable problem isn't useful for population control.

get to mars in 50 years more like fix earht

A fake one is better because you can move the goalposts when your predictions don't come true.

Mars isn't real!

the earth is flat

i jsut googled what it looks like and it looks like an iceberg of garbage

It's a construct of the patriarchy!

Global warming predictions in the early 90s were adamant that the Earth was going to be uninhabitable by 2020 with sea levels high enough to wipe out most coastal cities in the world wiped out by sea level rise. It's 2017 and that's not even close to happening.

i hate how we have fucking social shit going on meanwhilethe garbage

because some people are too thick to see past petty garbage and try to live a meaningful life or at least a fulfillig one

Seriously, we need to have a purge.

Japan definitely needs a purge.

apparently it is 2 tiems bigger than texas

listen to yo yo piraka during the purge

Nah, I'll listen to the Bardock theme.

Well, I think it's about time to get back home.

Sea levels are not rising, they've actually gone down slightly.
Ice caps and glaciers are not shrinking, they're growing.
Temperatures have not increased, at all, they've gone down.
Carbon dioxide levels are not at record highs in Earth's history. While currently they are rising, they are actually really low in term's of Earth's climate history.
Carbon dioxide does not act with a net warming effect on planets with an active biosphere. It increases plant growth which converts a lot more solar energy into chemical energy resulting in a net decrease in temperature.
We are not experiencing an increase in dangerous hurricanes, we're experiencing modest decrease.
We're not experiencing unsual droughts, we're experierncing normal droughts that affected areas have always periodically had. They just have people stupidly living there now.

Hopefully you'll all still be alive by the next time we cross paths.

and of course climate change is always occurring on earth, right??