SOMETHING NO ONE TALKS ABOUT: ocean plastic is a HOME. These are feather animals, called hydroids, growing on a plastic rope I picked up in the middle of the ocean. Once we throw it away, it's not ours anymore. We've gotta stop throwing it into the ocean.
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The ONLY people I've ever heard talk about this were doing plastic cleanup in Hawaii & viewed humans/nature from a Polynesian Hawaiian perspective. They said if the plastic was home to an animal and not hurting it, they'd sometimes leave the plastic. It really made me think...
In my culture (US/West), I often feel like the prevailing sentiment is that nature should be 'pure' and 'untarnished', that our highest priority is to erase the sight of ourselves, and anything less is viscerally unpleasent. But...
Humans are part of nature. It's unrealistic to expect that we won't impact the world around us. We're all housemates. If you leave your trash everywhere, and your housemates take it and use it, are you really surprised?...
Being better housemates means not making a mess in the first place. And if we've made one, being mindful and respectful in how we clean it up. [end]
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