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Cleanup Group Says It's on Track to Eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (futurism.com)

submitted 3 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/world@quokk.au

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If it can get the necessary funds, that is. In a press release, the organization claimed that eliminating the patch once and for all would cost a whopping $7.5 billion

And good luck with that, won't happen, ever.

It's the cost of one or two huge stadiums, but politicians rather have large stadiums than wasting their hard earned cash on shit like the future of the planet

[–] Funky_Beak@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 months ago

You can put a plaque on a stadium. Bit hard on water.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 3 months ago

$7.5 bil is nothing. The Pentagon has literally lost (like actually lost track of) many times that