I thought that the 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch' is a result of how neglectful humans can be and a real visible view of how much of an impact we cause on the environment. Looking through some websites I did not find any real solutions to this problem partly for concern on the wildlife. There was some information on regulating our garbage inland and efforts on cleaning up the trash on beaches where it originates from the garbage patch. I feel that this problem can be fixed if we put our heads together.

Simply Ignorance

It is amazing to me that this huge Garbage Patch happened over so little time. I mean think about it. Plastic has not existed for very long, and already it has become extremely harmful to the environment. This makes me think of how ignorant the people of America chose to be. Yes, it is a choice. If it does not directly affect us, it simply does not matter. This way of thinking has caused the Garbage Patch to become a situation that probably will not solve within the next decade. All people think about is money. If a solution takes away money, it will not happen, even if it is the only way to help this world that we live in. People are greedy. Because of this trait, the patch is only going to get bigger. Our population is increasing dramatically, and more people equal more trash. Things like this just make me want to go back in time to when people drove horse-driven carriages and lit candles to see at night. Life was simpler, and it was probably a lot less degrading to the environment.

The Garbage Patch Response

Just looking at the video on the garbage patch, is so horrible to look at. All these objects such as slippers, plastics, dolls, and other waste materials floating around the ocean. It's hard to imagine how big the garbage patch is, double the size of Texas. That is just so bad! I feel awful for all the sea species, living in the ocean in that sort of waste material environment. Sea turtles are being harm from the plastic and fishes swiwimming around trying to avoid the materials that could harm their species. All the plastic bottles could be reused for other things instead of throwing it away in the ocean. People need to realize how garbage can be a major impact in our environment. We need to recycle these materials instead of wasting it all!

Ice Cream Love

We all scream for ice cream was a story I really didn't find too interesting. I, never having been out of Hawaii, wouldn't really understand what it's like to be a "foreigner" or "different". I thought it was right for the guy to stand up for himself, and a bit unfair for him to be treated as much, however, I think that if you are going to another country, you should be expected to be treated differently, and not always in a good way. I wasn't too sure what was fully going on as well. Though I didn't really care for the story, it did show me a little bit of what to expect when I do go out there, so in that way I found it interesting, but other than that, it was boring, and pointless.

Garbage Continent

The huge mass of garbage in the middle of the Pacific ocean is really sad to me. I find it disgusting that we are the main cause of this pollution. The trash is mistaken for phytoplankton, and as most of you know, plankton is at the bottom of the food chain. This means that this trash is infecting tons of animals, and is effecting more than just the animals that eat it mistaking it for food. The garbage is killing hundreds of thousands of birds and other animals every year, and although we may not be witnessing many threatening short-term effects, the long-term effects are probably going to be a lot worse, and we should try our hardest to prevent it from getting worse, while we can. It's not that hard to go and recycle your trash, and you would be surprised at how much it would help if more people were doing it.

Recycling + You = No trash

Reading about these two giant masses of floating garbage in the middle of the Pacific Ocean is somewhat shocking to me. While reading about it all that was going threw my mind was "Well why isn't anyone doing something about it." If we as humans are producing these grotesque masses of harmful waste, we should solve this issue, by either limiting our disposal of plastic or learning how to recycling our plastic materials. Earth, itself is a very delicate ecosystem. By having all of these unnatural factors affecting it, in the end our future generations are going to be seeing and having to deal with the mess we created. I think that if 200 billion pounds of plastic is being produced every year, then as a community we should work together to reduce the amount of Recyclable plastic being thrown away every year. I do think that we have become more aware in these past few years of the benefits of recycling and keeping our ecosystem healthy, and I think that the more people that are aware of these problems. The more help we can get to solve the recycling and ecosystem problems of today.

“The great pacific garbage patch”

Colbert has an interesting way of humor. Kind of a random sarcasm comedy, like really makes you think, what the hell is he thinking. He has a good show i watch it when ever its on especially at time like this; election. This show and the daily show; hilarious. I think Colbert's going be around for awhile, he even has his own ice cream. Some times he makes fun of some serious topics in the world, it's kind of messed up if you think about it but sometimes all you can do is laugh.

plastic sea

Hawaii is always portrayed as being such a paradise, right? The one thing that stands out to most people when they come to a place like Hawaii are the beautiful beaches. How long will our beaches hold its beautiful standard with all of the garbage that ends up in the ocean. Seeing all of that plastic in the ocean was discusting. It is very sad and unfortunate to see all of that plastic polluting the ocean; how long will it be before our beaches become completely covered with plastic and too dirty for anyone to enjoy. Although people make such a big deal about recycling and such, what about the trash and plastic and things that are already polluting our oceans. I think it is very good to influence recycling and things like that, but its sad that majority of the people I know only recycle aluminum cans and plastic because by redeeming those items, you receive money. I don't think that people do it for the benefit of our environment anymore as much as they do it for the money. I remember going to elementary school and learning to recycle bottles and cans to help keep the land clean. I remember being taught that everyone should do their part to help even if it means picking up a piece of trash that isn't yours and throwing it away. I recently went to the beach and saw a group of people who were drinking beer on the beach and then left their pile of bottles in the sand. My cousins and I gathered all the bottles and discarded them. I think that people need to start pulling their weight before our beautiful beaches and oceans become as unbearable as our landfill here on Maui. The generations to come may never experience the beautiful beaches that I enjoyed as a child and that would be tragic. Our ocean is also a great part of our food source here on Maui. It would be very unfortunate to see all of that diminish all because of careless acts of people.

The Eighth Continent

It seems we don't have to wait for a underwater volcano to push the earth's crust above the surface of the water anymore, but instead continue to manufacture and improperly dispose of plastic products and wait for them to collect onto the what is called "The Great Pacific Garbage Patch". This floating mass consists of mostly plastic that has been discarded and cannot break down naturally. To top off the problem, there is huge health concerns for not only the ocean's ecosystem, but for ourselves as well. The small bits of plastic attract poisons such as DDTs. In turn, the fish, birds, and other species eat these small bits of plastics, which kills them due to poisoning, or intestinal blockage. It's terrible that we are in this problematic state with all our knowledge, and still even with this knowledge, we as a race continue in our ridiculous ways, such as cruise ships dumping their garbage and raw sewage just a few miles offshore instead of properly disposing the garbage at a landfill, (which still sucks), and their sewage at a treatment plant.

The Great Irresponsible Patch

I Think that garbage patch floating in the pacific is not only irresponsible, but its imbarissing on behalf of the people of earth. How could living breathing people be so iggnerant and destroy the one thing that keeps us alive? I got the answer= from generations of mony hungry people with no consideration for the inviorment. All they care about is how to make that quick cash. In this society, its all about the mony baby. people have been brainwased into belive that earth and its resorces are for the taking. This is wong. we need to coexist with the earth or we wont exist much longer at all.

Garbage Attack

Right now there is a floating toxic garbage in between Hawaii and California which I think is twice as big as Texas. Seriously, that is way bigger than Hawaii. It is going to affect us and do some serious damage. It's like swimming in a pool of garbage and we are swimming in it if you think about it because it's sitting in the same ocean where we go swimming at the beach here in Hawaii. I don't want this Earth to turn into a rot. We should definitely take a consideration on keeping this Earth clean. They started to ban plastic bags in California and use brown paper bags instead. Anything we can do to help this world of ours clean would be great but no one seems to really care not until something really bad happens. I admit I'm being hyprocritical right now because I didn't even realize we had this floating island of garbage near our islands.

The Little Landlord

I thought that this video was clever, funny, and something most can relate to their lives. I can see why someone would find this offensive with the little landlord swearing but I also believe that they should lighten up a little. Sometimes it seems when people are bored they just find something to complain about. If a video means no harm and does no harm then i do not see whats the bigge! I also think kids spend way to much time on youtube and other video sites, i mean its funny once in a while but i hear some kids up at my high high school talk about this kind of stuff everyday. But i guess people dont bust on my hobbnies so i wont bust on theirs.

The Landlord

How do you know what is funny?
I believe that you are shaped by your surroundings. Your ideas and thoughts and the things you feel are right and wrong are usually taught by your family and friends and of course the media. There are cases of people being the complete 180 from their family and friends but the majority of the way you take things in and comprehend them is from how you grew up. I found the Landlord hilarious but i could see how others may find it wrong or cruel maybe even a little offensive for a little girl to be swearing and holding a beer. I'm not saying that it was right but it was funny. I couldn't watch that without laughing but I'm sure there were people doing so. I showed it to my dad just to see his response and he thought it was funny as well but maybe just a little shocking. I feel as if i showed this to my mom she wouldn't think of it to highly. Maybe she would get a little laugh about it but probably would take it a little more seriously. I thought of it as a joke, jokes are usually funny so if you take it lightly and have a mindset of it not being real then it seems a lot funnier, the way it was made to be. They wouldn't try and make a skit with it harming or even forcing a child to do those things and put it on national television or the Internet.

Funny ass landlady clip

Yeaheah! That was real damn funny. You thought that it was gonna be some land lady right? But it was this kid who was all foul mouthed, and she was all "I gotta get my drink on!" Reminds me of my girfriend. Oh yeah, who dosn't love to see little kids curse? But you know what? I had a landlady like that once. She would always come knockin late at night, we'd be all partying, and she'd run off this blue streak about rent money or somethin', who knew what the hell she was talking about 'cause noone couldever understand what she was saying. So we'd all bust up laughing and then slam the door in her face. Good times!

AQUA C.

I thought this clip was really hilarious and witty. They pointed out the ironic destruction from producing and supporting by consuming bottled water. This clip obviously fully exaggerated the negative effects. I really enjoyed the clip's extreme but creative ways to condemn our American ways in wasting water. I think that this video is not just about wasting and producing bottled water, but about all the way we take things for granted, destroy and waste our natural resources, and how ugly we Americans really are.

Boredom at its finest?

How do we decide what is funny and what isn't?

The first question that came to mind, related to the prompt, was: What did that have to do with anything?
Than I thought about it, and I realized there are actually numerous reasons as to why someone would post such a thing.
There's the chance that these people were bored, and in a small attempt to entertain themselves, as well as kill time, filmed this video. There's the possibility of them being in a similar situation, and are in need of venting. Or maybe, they're really just poking fun at stereotypical landowners.
Maybe they feel like their landowner is an incompetent alcoholic who doesn't understand anything.
But really, it's not that I'm offended by the video or anything. I just feel like it was pointless ( not even funny) and were it my choice, I would've quit it, and 'you-tubed' something else.

Garbage Society

It makes me sick of my stomach just to think that something like that is floating on the pacific. Unfortunately, I have also found out that there are more than one garbage island sitting on the oceans. I have been watching a lot of CNBC as well as CNN lately looking for an answer for the economic recession, its funny to think that people are so involved on capital and money, and they end up forgetting about the environment. In addition, most of people, like me, don’t even know about the existence of such a terrible thing. The answer for that is education, if we are aware of the effects that we cause on Mother Nature, we sure would be more cautious about littering and wasting. Our children are going to suffer the consequences of a environmentally irresponsible generation if we don’t change our point of view now.

Garbage Video Clip

Watching this clip was interesting, it brought to mind the fact we all have been taught since kindergarten plastic is harmful to the environment. Seeing how much trash and plastic has accumulated over a short amount of time is disturbing and what it comes down to in the end is that for the most part we live in a consumer absorbed world and nation. We can buy many things with money today but it will not buy back a healthy environment. It is our job to take care of what we have but unfortunately with all the technology in the world today we are still unable to utilize the plastic in order to create products that are loved and used by the modern family. Finally I do feel that with in this last year people have started to become more aware of how plastic is affecting the environment, but this is just the beginning to what should be a long term commitment.

Respond of the garbage pacific patch

I feel so gross about the plastic garbage in the ocean. I also do not like people wasting plastic and resources. In Korea, people started recycling fifteen years ago what I remember my school started students encouraging recycling or more than that. When I first came to Maui, it did not have a recycling system. Therefore, people just threw garbage which could recycle. Now, on Maui it has a recycling system, but some people still throw plastics, glasses, and paper. If we recycle all those resources, we can save money and resources. This video shows me how people waste resources without concerning natures and animals and how people are selfish. It also tells me that plastic produces over 7 billion pounds a year which is not recyclable. Some people might change their mind about throwing garbage or recycling because it affects the ocean’s food chain. In the video, a research found out that every person has this plastic chemical in his or her body. It affects women not to pregnant. People are how greed, and they don’t care about environments and natures.