“The California Coastal Commission in San Francisco has given up hopes of attempting to clean up a huge island of garbage twice the size of Texas that remains floating in the Pacific Ocean somewhere between Hawaii and California. Dubbed the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” the commission believes the trash patch weighs more than 3.5 million tons and contains about 80 percent plastic. The island has grown rapidly since the 1950’s and no plans exist to open it up as an adventure travel location. – trumors”

Luckily paddling adventurers will never run out of islands.

Now if that’s not enough to get your brain spinning, how about this recent revelation; World shipping produces double the amount of Co2 in the atmosphere as the airlines. Read this interesting article in the Guardian. That’s the problem with popular environmentalism. There is just so much more out there than the average person can possibly get a handle on. While we rage on about the “concern of the day”, there is always another wolf at the door. Often it’s bigger than the last one.

You know, that’s the thing about environmentalism in the modern age. There are so many bloody holes in the dam we can’t even begin to address them all. I have very little doubt that we are caught in a cascading effect that all the activism in the world will not be able to stop.

Now if you really want to drive yourself into fits imagine the extra amount of CO2 released into the air if a Chinese cargo ship full of kayaks, while on it’s way to the states is diverted around a garbage island twice the size of Texas!! What a world!