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Add Comment50 years from now what will people look back at and think "how silly they were for trying to do that..." ?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhy not human should discover things that might help us erase all the effect we did with our environment. When you sail in the ocean and you bumped in a new found continent, don’t be surprised. A lot of people haven't heard about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is basically a patch of garbage, mostly decomposing plastic, in the Pacific Ocean, in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean Gyre – a gyre is an ocean area that several currents collide in to form a circular area – that is estimated to be up to twice the size of Texas. It is awful scenes like it that would make conservation and recycling seem worth some short term loans at least to vamp up. The size of the <a rev="vote for" title="Great Pacific Garbage Patch | We Headed For Space Yet?" href="http://personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/2009/08/04/great-pacific-garbage-patch/ ">Great Pacific Garbage Patch</a> will take a lot more than payday loans no faxing to clean up, and we must take better care of this earth.
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