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  • Del Mar Climate Presents The Perils of Plastics Youth art from the Sunset Market in Oceanside on Thursday evening! Today I’ll be at the Alta Vista Botanical Gardens Earth Festival in Vista from 10:00am-3:00pm — a fun-filled festival with interesting vendors, plants sales, activities for children, and more. You’ll find me at the @surfridersandiego booth by the upper pond. “Earthrise in the Anthropocene” was created using unmodified marine plastic collected from North County San Diego beaches, superimposed onto the original Earthrise image—the iconic photograph taken by William Anders during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968. Vintage Creap! Sea Enemy My lucky day? Whether oil is drilled for fuel or plastic, the impacts are urgent. Oil spills from wells are immediate, visually dramatic, and horrific. Plastic in the ocean has been compared to an oil spill because 99% of it is made from petroleum. Marine plastic is insidious because it’s less visible than an oil spill, but it also causes devastating harm. I recently had the opportunity to co-present at a conference for teachers in Los Angeles. After arriving at the hotel near LAX early, I decided to take a walk at nearby Dockweiler Beach. Almost immediately, I noticed bottle caps, straws, food wrappers, fast-food packaging, unidentifiable plastic bits, and much more scattered across the sand. I quickly filled two bags with colorful plastic items. This dinosaur won’t go extinct.
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