That's why I wrote about it in my blog, we got to keep the food moving.

Thanks Sully. I missed that very insightful post and comments. She does not think beyond next week and really wonder if her followers do also. I put a hot link to your blog post since I was still able to edit mine.

I've always read - and believed - that the Chinese play "the long game", planning not just years in the future, but decades. Then when they built the Three Gorges Dam in an earthquake-prone region, I decided that they might very well play the long-game, they just don't factor in the consequences. (and I have also read the dam is so huge that it actually slowed the rotation of the Earth)

They have also continued to build new coal-fueled power plants at a huge pace, spewing even more "greenhouse gases" into the atmosphere, but the worst thing is the massive amounts of coal ash they produce.

In the meantime, the U.S. has fallen out of the ranks of the worst polluters and while we still have a number of Superfund sites to clean up, our air and water is as clean as it's been in years. Thanks to fracking, we can now replace the capacity once generated with now-closed coal plants with clean burning natural gas.

The U.S. is not responsible for most of the plastic in the multiple enormous gyres across the seas; no, that's from mostly third-world nations and even first-world industrialized nations that let their plastic bags and other detritus reach the ocean.   In the meantime, we have eco-idiots here in America believing some pre-teen kid's flawed study that straws are the biggest problem.

I read an article just the other day about plastics and how they have migrated through the chain of marine life and nearly every fish in the world is thought to have ingested some. A recent deep expedition to the bottom of the Mariana Trench brought back samples of the sea creatures that live far above the masses of floating plastic that were found to have it in their stomachs.

And we get these numbskulls like The Sea Shepherds who battle Japan for taking a relatively few whales, but it's like running into a burning building and saving the baby pictures....but not the baby! If we don't do something about our oceans, then there will be no whales left to save!

I could rant on for a few thousand more words about that, "green energy", fracking and other eco-issues, but will spare you. Sorry to have written so much already, I am anything but succinct on *some* issues I care a great deal about.

Sorry, banged that out too quickly and didn't proofread as I should have. (and usually do)

"...sea creatures that live far BELOW the...plastic"

Environmental issues became a hot topic in the 60's which prompted massive cleanup. One issue that is talked about very little is areas which have a large illegal population have an increased amount of trash strewn around because that's how they do it where they come from. This can be called a derogatory statement but this area has been affected by more roadside trash. I suspect other area are similarly affected.

The above is incidental to the continent of plastic floating in the ocean. If I remember correctly several years back large cities such as New York sent their garbage to somewhere in South America for disposal. If memory is correct the article said the the receiver simply dumped it in the ocean. Maybe that's where the data for third world pollution comes from. Wonder how many more large cities do same?

AOC hasn't got the brains that GOD gave a jack-ass. Come to think of it 99% of the liberals don't either.

Thanks Maddog. Going to post a meme which describes her perfectly.