Eco Blog - St. George's Berlin

 It is important to involve school-age people so that they understand the world they are inheriting. This work by Dougie Paynter comes with  strong recommendations by members of the Eco-Church group. Here is a LINK . Plastic is one of the threats to God's creation that we can all help to avoid with our own small choices. In the end, it is often the small choices we make during daily life that matter.

 The amount of plastic in the environment puts God's creation at risk. "The Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) explores the Arctic, Antarctic, and the seas and coastal regions of the  temperate latitudes, from the atmosphere to the deep sea. It has researched  plastic pollution in the ocean for 15 years and developed state-of-the-art methodologies for the standardised detection of small microplastics in different environments. The work aims to unveil the distribution of plastic pollutants as well as its impacts on marine life and trends over time to provide scientific data that are needed to combat plastic pollution in the oceans." ( Link ) "If entangled underwater, air-breathing animals cannot return to the sea surface to breathe and die of suffocation. But even gill-breathing animals are affected: if fish or invertebrates remain entangled for too long, they starve or are eaten. The odour of carcasses attracts further anima...