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What you are seeing is a ratio of awareness and ease of solving the problem.

It’s a lot easier to stop throwing crap into the ocean than it is to replace a century of sunk cost in carbon emitting energy technology. We are plenty aware of climate change but almost don’t even want to face that challenge.



This is my feeling, too. I'm all for clean oceans, but we shouldn't think that this is the biggest threat right now.




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