Let’s Clean Up the Great Garbage Patch

Hello everyone, I hope all is well with you. I’m back today after a busy week at work, writing, and running. It seems like things are picking up speed. My youngest graduates this year, and it is bittersweet to say the least.

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The highlight of the weekend was when I attended the play, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” starring Richard Thomas as Atticus Finch. The cast put on an amazing show and Richard Thomas did not disappoint.

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But enough about that. Today, I want to talk about Earth Day. It was April 22^nd. I’m surprised we only have one day to celebrate our planet. Shouldn’t Earth Day be every day?

Yes. It should. We should be celebrating our planet every day for sustaining our lives. Not only should we be celebrating it; we should be taking care of it. We need to for our future generations.

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We can start by cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean. It is about 620,000 square miles of debris. It’s so large it has its own ecosystem living on it. Let’s clean that up. It originated from the fishing industry. Fishing boats who dump their trash and damaged fishing nets into the sea.

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Cleaning up the ocean would be good for our economy. Just think about all the jobs it would create. Wouldn’t that be nice if we could create jobs that did something good for our planet? Why haven’t we thought about this before?

I know it’s a big job. It’s huge. There must be some way a corporation could make a profit cleaning it up. We could make it a government contract. That’ll work. We could have all the nations pitch in and clean it up. Split it right down the middle. Make it a global event. That would work. Don’t you think?

Thanks for stopping by and reading my post. Do you have any ideas on how to clean up the Great Garbage Patch? Leave a comment! I’d love to hear from you!