Comments on: A Catalog Of Willful Human Ignorance

By: Further Adventures in Procrastination « The Casual Art of Procrastination

Further Adventures in Procrastination « The Casual Art of Procrastination — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:15:49 +0000

[...] # Willful Human Ignorance. [...]

By: Ana

Ana — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:42:11 +0000

There’s been a reasonably healthy bird carcass on a road median near my house, for a month, and that made me quite distressed.

Incentive to bring the metal bottle and coffee thermos along at all times etc.

By: gooby

gooby — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:07:46 +0000

These pics make it hard for me to function..

By: cappy

cappy — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:57:06 +0000

Saw these pictures the other day — they make me sick, especially the one where the plastic lighter is clearly evident.

Some bird ate that.

By: Natasha

Natasha — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:24:25 +0000

Sometimes I hate being human.

By: Glossolalia Black

Glossolalia Black — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:35:18 +0000

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an indictment of the entire human species:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/08/04/pacific.garbage.patch/index.html

By: Heather

Heather — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:17:02 +0000

I’ve seen a documentary on this phenomenon before. Rubbish is collected by waves on beaches – a lot of it properly thrown away but somehow still trickles down to the sea – and the currents of the sea carry it to this section of the Pacific which is thousands of miles from anywhere, where the percentage of rubbish per gallon of seawater is pretty shocking. The plastic is then broken down to a molecular level (it never stops being plastic, once it’s made into plastic) and gloms onto plankton and other natural fish food. Humans and sealife consume it then and it is fucking with reproductive hormones. That’s not even to speak of the plastic seen here, which looks like food to birds. It really made me think twice about using plastic, like, ever.

Beautiful but horrid.

By: Maureen Goldman

Maureen Goldman — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:15:55 +0000

At Brookfield Zoo (near me) there is a picture of a BEAUTIFUL harp seal – who passed away because some idiot threw a nickel in the water . which eventually made it’s way into her intestinal tract.
And yet people continue to throw things in there & other exhibits.
Willful Human Ignorance is an excellent way to phrase it – c’mon – you’ve GOT to know albatrosses cannot consume bottle caps. BTW – the albatross is GOOD luck. The sailor had “an albatross around his neck” because he had killed one – thus bringing bad luck to his shipmates.

By: Konstantin

Konstantin — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:23:24 +0000

These images are definitely fascinating, but at the same time, very disturbing.

As a Biology major, I tried my hardest to avoid the cliché of becoming a tree-hugging environmental activist. I really did. However, after some field work, I gotta tell you: there are only so many patches of plastic-filled bird carcasses a fella can wade through before it starts to really sink in. This is plain wrong.

By: Ashbet

Ashbet — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:36:13 +0000

That is just heartbreaking :/