Popular Post webfact Posted April 21, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted April 21, 2022 By Veena Thoopkrajae with additional report by SukhumapornLaiyok Oceans are amazing. Covering more than 70 percent of Earth’s surface, they are among the most valuable natural resources that keep us alive in many different ways. But unfortunately, this big blue planet is under threat of global warming and pollution, particularly involving plastics. Footage of coral bleaching, images of a huge amount of plastic waste accumulating in oceans, and reports of a decline in marine life are among the visible signs of environmental decline. Join our daily ASEAN NOW Thailand Newsletter - Click to subscribe In Thailand, baby dugong Marium died as a result of ingesting plastic. A dead green turtle in Chumporn had plastic bags and other plastic waste in its stomach. A stranded whale found in Songkhla had 80 plastic bags in its belly, weighing 8 kgs. Coral reefs in Krabi’s Maya Bay, famously featured in the hit movie “The Beach”, were degraded by warmer seas and overcrowding. Oil spills from a pipeline blackened sand on Mae Ramphueng beach in Rayong. It also killed wedge clams, a biological indicator of pollution, and affected crustaceans found in the area. And stronger storms driven by global climate change are leading to more erosion and even more intense harmful algal blooms. Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/sea-sick-how-we-are-destroying-our-oceans-and-what-we-can-do-about-it/ -- © Copyright Thai PBS 2022-04-22 - Cigna offers a range of visa-compliant plans that meet the minimum requirement of medical treatment, including COVID-19, up to THB 3m. For more information on all expat health insurance plans click here. - Follow ASEAN NOW on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meat Pie 47 Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 Just stop plastics 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post smedly Posted April 21, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted April 21, 2022 stop spilling oil into the sea at Rayong would be a great start as for plastics - my guess is 70% of my waste is plastic - absolutly everything you buy here is in a plastic wrapper 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vandeventer Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 3 hours ago, Meat Pie 47 said: Just stop plastics Yes, plastic is a problem but so is China as they drop a lot of human waste in he ocean, and what about all the nuclear waste being dropped in the ocean in 44 gallon drums. I stopped eating seafood a long time ago as we are too close to Chine's dumping grounds. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Isaan sailor Posted April 21, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted April 21, 2022 Shrimp farming takes a deadly toll on sea life. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotchilli Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 4 hours ago, webfact said: In Thailand, baby dugong Marium died as a result of ingesting plastic. A dead green turtle in Chumporn had plastic bags and other plastic waste in its stomach. A stranded whale found in Songkhla had 80 plastic bags in its belly, weighing 8 kgs. Coral reefs in Krabi’s Maya Bay, famously featured in the hit movie “The Beach”, were degraded by warmer seas and overcrowding. Oil spills from a pipeline blackened sand on Mae Ramphueng beach in Rayong. It also killed wedge clams, a biological indicator of pollution, and affected crustaceans found in the area. And stronger storms driven by global climate change are leading to more erosion and even more intense harmful algal blooms That's just the tip of the ice-berg... ohhh, they're melting too. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotchilli Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 4 hours ago, Meat Pie 47 said: Just stop plastics Thailand, no plastics... Oh my god. No containers, no bottles, no plastic wrap, no drinking vessels, no food containers... how will the evolve? Never, like the rest of the world, talk about it do nothing. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Rampant Rabbit Posted April 22, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted April 22, 2022 (edited) the answer is they dont know anything much about long term effects and the problem isnt the plastic its the filthy people throwing their <deleted> where they want and Thais are expert s at this Edited April 22, 2022 by Rampant Rabbit 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KhunLA Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 Does anyone even have to think about the how & what to do ? Apparently nobody cares ... som naa na 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post monsieurhappy Posted April 22, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted April 22, 2022 In 1800 the population of planet earth was estimated at one billion! Now we are at eight billion!! When are people going to realise that planet earth CANNOT sustain all this population?? It's because of this population explosion that the world is being contaminated! Maybe we should be pouring contraceptives into the water supply?? 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Tropposurfer Posted April 22, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted April 22, 2022 I love the comments about China. If anyone thinks that one nation is preeminent in polluting the globe, and or that plastics pollution is purely regionally distributed and damaging then they don't have much of a grasp of either facts or reality. As for other forms of pollution oil spills, industrial waste etc then there's veery few first world countries that have clean hands (plz excuse the pun). There are many forms of wrapping that can be made to be biodegradable and organic e.g. bamboo, and recycled fast-growing plantation timber products e.g./ paper and cardboard. A good business opportunity to develop, and promote. We refuse plastic bags when offered them, use reusable coffee cups, and iced drink containers, never use plastic straws, take our own hot food containers when we go to buy local food-stalls, use our own reusable shopping bags, and recycle what plastic bags we do get for many months. And always say to the vendors when handing over our containers we politely and smilingly refusing plastic bags and say; 'plastic mai dee for Thailand. 'There's lots we can do to limit the pollution. When you go to the beach or elsewhere if you see rubbish pick up a little bit of it bag it and put in your bins at home. I've picked up plastics on the beach since I was about 12 years old, and while I hold no illusion that we as a species will ever change our ways sufficiently to not destroy the eco-viability of our planet I do what I can in my small way until I return to the earth form whence I came. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandiRona Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 Hug Trees?? 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rampant Rabbit Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 22 minutes ago, monsieurhappy said: In 1800 the population of planet earth was estimated at one billion! Now we are at eight billion!! When are people going to realise that planet earth CANNOT sustain all this population?? It's because of this population explosion that the world is being contaminated! Maybe we should be pouring contraceptives into the water supply?? Incorrect, it certainly can properly managed, but it isnt properly managed and nature will control the population eventually Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KhunLA Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 31 minutes ago, RandiRona said: Hug Trees?? too many ants 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebell Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 6 hours ago, Meat Pie 47 said: Just stop plastics Thais would suffer withdrawal symptoms. What would scavenging dogs do all day? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandiRona Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 15 minutes ago, KhunLA said: too many ants Condoms ban?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monsieurhappy Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 1 hour ago, Rampant Rabbit said: Incorrect, it certainly can properly managed, but it isnt properly managed and nature will control the population eventually It is said that the population of earth can be accommodated on the Isle of Wight! Would you want to be there with them?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rampant Rabbit Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 (edited) 6 minutes ago, monsieurhappy said: It is said that the population of earth can be accommodated on the Isle of Wight! Would you want to be there with them?? That was not your initial statement was it, no need to twist it round, you stated there were too many people basically and the planet couldnt support it, which is incorrect. Not whteher they could all fit on the Isle of Wight Edited April 22, 2022 by Rampant Rabbit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harveyg Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 (edited) The money wins again. Who are the biggest richest entities on this planet? Edited April 22, 2022 by Harveyg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOTIRIOS Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 ...using the word 'we' rather loosely...(?) ...the average 'Joe' obeys all the rules.... ...get real.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post AKJeff Posted April 22, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted April 22, 2022 3 hours ago, monsieurhappy said: In 1800 the population of planet earth was estimated at one billion! Now we are at eight billion!! When are people going to realise that planet earth CANNOT sustain all this population?? It's because of this population explosion that the world is being contaminated! Maybe we should be pouring contraceptives into the water supply?? https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53409521 Maybe the world already has. The population in most industrialized countries have peeked already and even in China the demographics look like there will be a declining population soon if not already.. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RocketDog Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 4 hours ago, Rampant Rabbit said: Incorrect, it certainly can properly managed, but it isnt properly managed and nature will control the population eventually The pandemic ain't over yet. Maybe Great Nature is holding the best for last: A true killer variant that will kill in the billions instead of millions. Sad thought but I'm hardly the first to have it. Stay tuned. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparktrader Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 7 hours ago, monsieurhappy said: In 1800 the population of planet earth was estimated at one billion! Now we are at eight billion!! When are people going to realise that planet earth CANNOT sustain all this population?? It's because of this population explosion that the world is being contaminated! Maybe we should be pouring contraceptives into the water supply?? Bill Burr has the solution. Take out cruise ships. His argument is those people are not much good and wont be missed. Watch youtube. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post AgentSmith Posted April 22, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted April 22, 2022 (edited) 7 hours ago, monsieurhappy said: In 1800 the population of planet earth was estimated at one billion! Now we are at eight billion!! When are people going to realise that planet earth CANNOT sustain all this population?? It's because of this population explosion that the world is being contaminated! Maybe we should be pouring contraceptives into the water supply?? Extreme overpopulation as it has been predicted for a long time is not gonna happen. Total population is gonna hit a plateau quite soon and in the decades after we'll see a collapse in many parts of the world. Japan is at the frontline here. China's economy will slow down because of a heavily aging population. People stopped having kids there simply because it became too expensive. Russia's population is already shrinking. So will Europe's and America's soon. Other areas are behind with their curves but will eventually follow the same path. Population isn't the issue. It's legislation, habit and lack of common sense. Change can happen. Europe's already banned plastic bags in many places. In Holland I wasn't able to find a single plastic bag at any store the last time I was there. Everyone's back to using reusable bags. In KL all plastic bags I saw were biodegradable, made from corn starch. Change isn't that difficult. It just needs to pick up enough momentum. Edited April 22, 2022 by AgentSmith 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzaa09 Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 9 hours ago, hotchilli said: Never, like the rest of the world, talk about it do nothing. Seems to be the running rhetorical fashion for quite some time now. It's clear that we're terribly ignorant or consciously ignore the truer dangers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotchilli Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 1 minute ago, zzaa09 said: Seems to be the running rhetorical fashion for quite some time now. It's clear that we're terribly ignorant or consciously ignore the truer dangers. The change barely started prior to Covid, now the worlds focus will be on other things. Thailands focus is getting millions of tourists back-in again to pollute everything and destroy the beauty of the land and oceans. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2009 Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 Stop fishing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RT555 Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 Think about how many times people dump Drano down the drain and how many times our water has been filtered, And they are finding plastics in our blood. I'm glad I will most likely be 10 feet under in a few years. This earth cannot take it for more than 50 more years. ....Jus sayin. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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kwonitoy Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 There are a few companies that use the bulk of disposable plastic bottles. Push government to make them use reusable aluminum or glass, Like they used to and that would go a long way in plastic pollution reduction. The companies that use plastic perpetuate the myth that plastic is recyclable because it helps their bottom line and pushes the so called recycle system to the consumers and not at the production level where it should be. It they didn't make it WE wouldn't have to clean up their mess Plastic for most purposes and all the hype IS NOT recyclable in appreciative quantities. Coca-Cola’s annual plastic production amounts to about 108bn bottles a year, more than a fifth of the world’s PET bottle output of about 500bn bottles a year, 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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