Is it a waste of your time or your money when someone else picks up a can off the beach?
Help. Don't help.
But sneering at their effort is just mean.
Bravo and +1 to all the engineers on this very excellent project.
Help. Don't help.
But sneering at their effort is just mean.
Bravo and +1 to all the engineers on this very excellent project.
The ocean is extremely fragile. The ocean, and the communities who depend on it are on the brink of irreversible collapse, and Mr. Slat really, truly, objectively, is not helping.
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.