Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom by Moore Patrick

Author:Moore, Patrick
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Climate change, environment, CO2, human extinction
Publisher: Ecosense Environmental
Published: 2021-01-14T00:00:00+00:00

Figure 58. Pelagic gooseneck barnacles have engulfed a small plastic fishing float before it was turned from flotsam into jetsam. If a piece of plastic is floating in the sea it will not be long before it becomes habitat for a potential host of species (Photo – Patrick Moore).

While on this subject it is important to note that the vast majority of animals are in the shape of a tube. This is true for all vertebrates, worms, clams, insects, shrimp, sea cucumbers, and so many more, including humans. Food is ingested through one end of the tube and waste is emitted from the other end. Evolution has been intelligent enough to make the in-hole smaller than the out-hole. Therefore, nearly anything you can swallow – without choking to death – will be able to pass through the rest of you. Regarding humans, the Harvard Medical School’s website on bowel obstructions lists numerous causes but there is no mention of large objects that were swallowed.163

During my numerous deep-sea voyages on Greenpeace campaigns, I witnessed many occurrences of plastic with sea-life growing on them. There is no doubt that one of the reasons fish and birds sometimes ingest bits of plastic is to get to the food growing on it. They would do the same thing if the food was growing on a small piece of wood.

One of the most contrived “narratives” about plastic in the ocean is that adult albatrosses are feeding plastic bags to their chicks and that in some cases this is killing the chicks. In his series Blue Planet for the BBC, Sir David Attenborough displays plastic bags and other bits of plastic film which he claims was fed to albatross chicks by their parents.164 There is no video or photos of the parent albatross actually feeding plastic bags to their chicks.

Unlike mammals, birds have no teeth and therefore cannot chew their food. Birds of prey such as eagles, ospreys, and hawks are able to rip large prey into pieces small enough to swallow. But most birds swallow their food whole. Unlike most mammals, birds have two stomachs: one like ours with gastric acids to begin digestion and then there’s the muscular gizzard where the food is broken down with the aid of indigestible solid objects. Birds that live on or close to land use pebbles for this. However, there are not a lot of pebbles out at sea. For sea birds the first choice is pumice from undersea volcanos which are basically rocks that float. When pumice is scarce seabirds will use pieces of hard wood, floating nuts from trees, and anything else that is the right size and relatively hard. In addition, the hard beaks of squids eaten by seabirds are retained in the gizzard to help with digestion. Since plastic was introduced to the ocean, seabirds are perfectly content to use it as one of the hard objects for their gizzard. They are not giving bits of plastic to their chicks because they mistake it for food, birds are not that stupid.

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