This documentary, in the form of a satellite map, shows how wide spread our plastic pollution problem is worldwide. At the rate the world economy is growing the planet will never recover from the plastic trash in our landfills, our canals, our rivers and our oceans. We have done little to solve the problem despite how all this plastic affects our health, our food, our environment, our weather, and our mental disposition. This map links to images that show the volume of plastic we have trashed the planet with and its staggering!
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https://climateviewer.org/layers/MRM/Geoscience-and-Oceanography/Plastic-Pollution-Worldwide.kml
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George Stiller, MyReadingMapped™Map: Plastic Pollution Worldwide by George Stiller and Jim Lee is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Based on a work at climateviewer.org/. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at climateviewer.com/terms.
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Jim Lee • Creator of ClimateViewer Maps
I am forever a Boy Scout, lifetime artist, nocturnal programmer, music is my life, love is my religion, and I am the luckiest husband and father on Earth. I speak for the trees. I have a passion for mapping, magnets, and mysteries. Feel free to contact me: jim@climateviewer.com