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A new report coming from a Russian ship have UH researchers changing their predictions. Since the March 11th earthquake and tsunami, researchers have been predicting it would take about two years for the debris from Japan to hit Hawaii's west-facing beaches.
“We have a rough estimate of 5 to 20 million tons of debris coming from Japan,” said UH computer programming researcher Jan Hafner. An average of 10 million tons of debris, the same amount released into the north Pacific basin in one year, was dislodged and set adrift in one day.
Unfortunately a lot of the floating debris from the Tsunami will wash up on the remote northwestern islands of Hawaii where are mostly uninhabited. These islands are part of a vast natural reserve created in 2006 called Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.
For years, a lot of the plastic junk floating around in the great northern Pacific garbage blob has washed up on these remote islands, and coats the beaches with ground up plastic particles that get mixed in with the sand. This will only make it worse, and likely mean the junk washing up on shore will be in bigger pieces since it has not been floating around in the ocean for very long.
Typical that pollution is no longer regarded as a problem...That instead we have this mindless mantra called environment.
When you see a war zone or for instance as we saw in the early days of the Iraqi contest - oil fields set ablaze...no one made the millions of tons of crap going into the air an issue - They talked about the politics of it all....much like little attention was paid to the radio active material put into the air and iwater after the quake in Japan... This debri about to wash up should be salvaged and utililized.....getting back to our attention being deverted from real issues regarding the harming of the natural world...When you see protestors buring buildings in eastern nations - and burning tires and all sorts of garbage - some one should remind them that the atmosphere is NOT an all absorbing limitless dumping ground. There was a time when industrialists back in the 50s assumed that the great lakes were so vast that they could dump millions of tons of toxins into them with no ill effect - Over half a century later - they are still in our water supply - traces - but still there....
Wealth should only be generated if those creating it clean up the waste products that are generated in the creation of material wealth - The so-called rich expect those of lesser privledge to clean up through tax dollars the mess they made getting rich - that is called slavery!
When you see a war zone or for instance as we saw in the early days of the Iraqi contest - oil fields set ablaze...no one made the millions of tons of crap going into the air an issue - They talked about the politics of it all...
Are you talking about the oil field fires in KUWAIT at the end of the Gulf War in 1991?
Plenty of people were worried about the environmental impact.
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