Occasionally, I check out new blogs that Blogger.com lists as "Blogs of Note." Today, the top one on the list was "Cheerful Scoop" which tries to give you a bit of good news every day. Hey, that's a good goal.
I read through the top couple, and they were so-so, but then I got to one I really liked. It pointed us to an article by New York Times science writer John Tierney, who wrote about "10 Things to Scratch from Your Worry List" this summer.
Among them, foods which are high in saturated fat, and plastic bottles containing BPA: the science suggests we're too fearful of both of these things. Read the article -- it's clever and informative.
However, another recent Blog of Note (Junk) points out something that should probably concern us, or at least raise our awareness. It seems that junk -- in particular, plastic -- is everywhere on this planet, even in the middle of the wide Pacific ocean. A couple of guys have built a boat using 15,000 plastic bottles and are sailing it to Hawai'i, collecting plastic refuse as they sail. The entry from August 4 teaches us about "The Gyre," a large area of the Pacific which ends up as the final dumping ground for plastics that find their way into our water.
It may not be the North Pole melting (which Tierney says we don't have to worry about this year -- whew!) but it is another sign of how much humans have made their mark on this world.
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