19-Year-Old Develops Ocean Cleanup Array That Could Remove 7,250,000 Tons Of Plastic From Oceans

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61. "TPTB?" Don't kid yourself, PEOPLE don't care

it's not some evil cabal of smirking slimy assholes sniffing their wallets. It's the horde of seven billion completely apathetic motherfuckers carpeting the world. Okay, okay, not completely apathetic, but very, very bubbled. Most of the human beings on this planet are looking towards the end of today, what they can bring home for their families, and what they have to have ready by tomorrow morning. That's it. And that's the problem with these huge world-threatening problems. They're so big and so long-term that most people can't see them, and people who are informed are simply overwhelmed by the size of the issue, and so they ignore it because it's easier. And let's not pretend that we're any different because we talk about it - I'm not scooping plastic out of the pacific or inventing some way to bond mercury from mine tailings into a harmless resin, are you? No, we're just here talking, two more apes in the herd who see the problem and can't do much more than hoot. And so long as we're just hooting, the people at the head of the herd aren't going to care either.