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Connections
Talk story
To spend time talking about all the important and unimportant things in life.
It was after midnight, but the solar panels had charged the batteries all day, allowing me to work on my computer without running the generator and waking Aunty Ake.
I was finishing some research on the Pacific trash gyre, a massive whirlpool of flotsam and jetsam of plastics, broken fishing nets, and other garbage that didn’t belong in the ocean. There were a lot of theories and speculation about it on the Internet, but I needed to take a trip out to the middle of nowhere to check it out for myself.
If it’s real, I have to tell people, I thought.
We can’t let this go on and on until it gets too big to ignore.
People will clean it up if they can understand the impact it’s having
