Every day I grow more concerned and sad about the oil that is pouring into the gulf. I get that it is the first of its kind and that the depths they are operating take great time and calculations, but I feel like we are running out of time. The disaster is about to become global and then all those apocalyptic movies begin to play in my head...have we finally done it?
Before the Gulf Oil spill I was learning about something called the North Atlantic Gyre and a newly discovered "garbage patch" there. There are 5 gyres across the globe, current centers that collect debris from the outer edges. Kind of like the center of whirlpool but much much slower and subtler. In these Gyres scientist are just discovering what happens to plastic in the ocean. It never goes away but breaks down into smaller and smaller particles, ingested by fish that are eventually caught and on our table so that we are eating our own plastic! Something prophetic about that...
Anyway - dear reader - here are some web sites and videos for you to see - please educate yourself, think about this amazing creation God put into our hands to be cared for by each one of us...no politics here - God gave humankind dominion over the world - not domination - let us live up to that gift. Please go and check these out:
http://www.5gyres.org/
www.vimeo.com/10137337
www.vimeo.com/10053284
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1m9yr3DV6Y
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