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A recent claim that there will be more plastic than fish in the sea by 2050 was intended to highlight a pollution crisis in the oceans. The problem really does exist, but do the figures hold water, or is there something fishy going on?
The prediction was made by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the World Economic Forum, in a report called The New Plastics Economy, which looks at the amount of plastic that ends up in the sea.
It got a lot of coverage in the press, including the Guardian, the Washington Post and the Daily Telegraph, among others.
One of the big headlines from the report was that if we continue dumping plastic in the sea at the present rate, measured by weight, there will be more plastic than fish by 2050.
This raises two questions: how do you measure the plastic, and how do you count the fish?
The report acknowledges that it is difficult to be precise. For the plastics, it refers back to a study led by Prof Jenna Jambeck of the University of Georgia, published last year. She tried to carry out a global census of plastic pollution and to estimate how much ends up in the ocean. Her study looks at estimates for total waste in all non-landlocked countries, and then estimates how much of that waste is likely to be plastic, how much of it is recycled, and so on.
But to estimate how much of this plastic then ends up in the sea, the study examines just one area - San Francisco Bay. "If that's not representative of the rest of the globe then you can see the potential for large deviations in this calculation," says Prof Callum Roberts from the University of York.
What the Ellen MacArthur Foundation report does is to take Jambeck's research, which makes predictions only up until 2025, and project it forwards to 2050.
source. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35562253
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but would you niggas be willing to take a look at it and tell me what flaws you can find in it? or just you know general thoughts
Also quick thing to note about poverty: we're getting to the point where Africa is starting to have issues with obesity instead of issues with malnutrition (granted, really depends where you are on that continent, some places are just fucked out of lucked), but the idea that it's somehow worsening is a falsehood. The issue with food isn't that there's not enough, we actually have more than enough. The issue is distribution - it's extremely difficult to transport it to the places where it's actually needed.
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but would you niggas be willing to take a look at it and tell me what flaws you can find in it? or just you know general thoughts
Yeah, I remember a TED talk by a Tanzanian economist who was like "yeah, charities are killing Africa to justify their continued existence. Cut ALL of it if you want to help us."Coincidentally, I once saw a case of donated shoes that they took to Africa and because of this they ended up deteriorating the shoe market in the region and many people took advantage of this to take large quantities of shoes and resell them more expensive lol
Parts of Africa do, but these parts are also in a perpetual state of brutal civil war.all because people stupidly believe that everyone in Africa lives barefoot and in loincloths lol