Message from the Gyre

Horrible pictures, made by photographer Chris Jordan, of dead albatross youngsters made this month at the Midway Atoll [Wikipedia], a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. Their bellies are full of plastic caused by feeding. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.

To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way.

See the entire serie here.

Comments

So sad and sickening.

Very sad. What’s wrong with us?

It makes me wish mother earth would hurry up and get on with it…with the process of eliminating our species (like a bad case of mange) from her itchy back.