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Well we can start by taking pictures of it instead of just writing walls of text about it hoping the average person will read about it and care. Here's what pi
by ChrisNorstrom 13y ago
Well we can start by taking pictures of it instead of just writing walls of text about it hoping the average person will read about it and care.
Here's what pisses me off. Guy writes about how devastated the ocean is, doesn't take a single picture. The only photo in the whole article is him and his boat.
- almosnow 13y agoI noticed the same. Come on man, billions of pieces of trash? How about snapping a few pictures to bring more fire to the discussion? Nah...
- prawn 13y agoA writer interviewed the boatie. It was likely published in print first where space is at a premium and/or only supported by the advertising at hand (they don't just add extra pages). Then online editors or lackies put up the story. News at that level and with that heritage is not at the level where they think like many of the rest of us on the net - e.g., add a gallery, etc. Even the Great Pacific garbage patch page on Wikipedia has no photos - the cross-section of people out there able to take photos and people likely to be editing Wikipedia don't seem to cross. You can see some on Google Images though I suspect that many are general garbage-in-water photos: https://www.google.com.au/search?q=great+pacific+garbage+patch&safe=off&espv=210&es_sm=91&source=lnms&tbm=isch https://www.google.com.au/search?q=great+pacific+garbage+pat...
- mikeash 13y agoA picture of the garbage patch would look like any other picture of the open ocean. Many of these problems are not visible to the naked eye.