{"id":11283,"date":"2010-06-01T10:03:06","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T16:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=11283"},"modified":"2010-06-01T03:39:04","modified_gmt":"2010-06-01T09:39:04","slug":"visualize-what-bp-has-wrought-map-the-oil-disaster-to-your-location-gain-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2010\/06\/visualize-what-bp-has-wrought-map-the-oil-disaster-to-your-location-gain-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Visualize: Map the BP Oil Disaster to Your Location, Gain Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When descriptions are good enough, what is needed is a little visual perspective. Above you see the output from a Google Maps mashup of the Gulf Oil mayhem relative to our location in the world.<\/p>\n

To get your own map, follow the link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

via In Perspective<\/a><\/p>\n


\nGreat Pacific Garbage Patch<\/strong>
\nBTW, since we’re talking about great masses of evil floating about in our precious waters. You have heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch<\/a>, yes? <\/p>\n

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Most of our waste today is comprised of plastic. Plastic, which is made from petroleum, is a material that the Earth cannot digest. Every bit of plastic that has ever been created still exists, except for a small amount that has been incinerated, releasing toxic chemicals. In the ocean, plastic waste accumulates in swirling seas of debris, where plastic to sea life ratios are 6:1; where birds and mammals are dying of starvation and dehydration with bellies full of plastics; where fish are ingesting toxins at such a rate that soon they will no longer be safe to eat. The largest of these garbage swills is known as the Pacific Gyre<\/a>, or The Great Garbage Patch. It is roughly the size of Texas, containing approximately 3.5 million tons of trash<\/a>. Shoes, toys, bags, pacifiers, wrappers, toothbrushes, and bottles too numerous to count are only part of what can be found in this accidental dump floating midway between Hawaii and San Francisco.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let’s line-up these disasters. Learn all their names. <\/p>\n

via In Perspective<\/a>, Great Garbage Patch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When descriptions are good enough, what is needed is a little visual perspective. Above you see the output from a Google Maps mashup of the Gulf Oil mayhem relative to our location in the world. To get your own map, follow the link. via In Perspective<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,80,14,6],"tags":[2382,4937,2384,2383,2259,682,2385,4949,241,259,147,1683,2260,851],"class_list":["post-11283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-fied","category-map","category-usa","category-world","tag-bp","tag-google-fied","tag-great-pacific-garbage-patch","tag-gulf-oil-disaster","tag-gulf-oil-spill","tag-lets-save-the-world-now","tag-man-made-disasters","tag-map","tag-mashup","tag-sad-now","tag-save-the-humans","tag-strange-maps","tag-the-deepwater-horizon","tag-visualizations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11283"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11296,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11283\/revisions\/11296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}