So what do you propose that we do? Even if everyone stopped throwing plastic into the water right now, it will not remove an ounce of plastic that's already in

So what do you propose that we do? Even if everyone stopped throwing plastic into the water right now, it will not remove an ounce of plastic that's already in the water and killing the ecosystem. Instead of dismissing attempts like this with a hand wave, perhaps we should actually start calculating the amount of damage done by potential by-catch versus the damage avoided by removing X tons of plastic from the top Y meters of the water column. Or compare the amount of plastic this project will end up adding to the oceans with the amount it will remove in the meantime. It's okay to be naysayer if you have real numbers to back up your claims. It's not okay to throw around phrases like "Mr. Slat is really, truly, objectively not helping" when you don't have any numbers to back up your claims.