Consequences

An article ran in the BBC today that discusses a voyage scientists took to the Texas-sized vortex of plastic trash in the the North Pacific Gyre.  It is an astonishing feat of collective human neglect that created the conditions for such an incontrovertible reminder that even our smallest actions - disposing of a water bottle for instance - can have far reaching ramifications.  From the article:

Project director Doug Woodring said: “One thousand miles from shore with no sign of human life for days, yet our human footprint is now apparent in even one of the most remote places on the planet.”

Little things count.