1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,480 What am I looking for again? Ah, yes. 2 00:00:02,480 --> 00:00:03,480 Frenzy Mini. 3 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:04,480 Frenzy Mini. 4 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:09,520 You know, I don't actually recall the last time I updated this, but I'm gonna be about 5 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:14,960 as surprised as you. How are we feeling today? How am I feeling? That's an important question. 6 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:18,320 I feel like I will go by how I'm feeling today. 7 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:19,960 Nobody has asked how you're feeling in a while. 8 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:20,960 Is that a rhyme? 9 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:22,240 I don't know. I wasn't paying attention. 10 00:00:22,240 --> 00:00:26,040 I feel like that was so Dr. Seuss of me. I'm feeling... 11 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:30,680 Oh, I learned something yesterday that I feel like I didn't know before, but it makes sense. 12 00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:31,680 What was it? 13 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:35,000 We were watching how the Grinch stole Christmas, like the original cartoon version. 14 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:36,520 It's too early for that. 15 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:40,640 I thought so too, but I bought it last year instead of renting it because I wanted to 16 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:41,640 make sure... 17 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:42,640 I felt like we'd watch it more than once. 18 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:43,640 Okay, okay. 19 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:47,040 It was worth it. And I wanted to get my money out of it. So I actually watched the opening 20 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:50,360 credits. I did not know Dr. Seuss wrote the songs for that. 21 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:51,360 Or did he just... 22 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:52,360 No, he wrote it. 23 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:53,360 Okay. 24 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:57,880 And by Dr. Seuss, to me, it was like, wow, it makes sense. But I don't know. I always 25 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:02,360 picture him even older than the cartoons for some reason. And by cartoons, I mean that 26 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:03,360 one. 27 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:07,000 Like he died like thousands of years before the cartoons were ever around. 28 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:11,360 Well, because he wrote during World War II. Like he did comics for World War II against 29 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:12,360 fascism. 30 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:13,360 Really? 31 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:15,360 Yeah, that's a whole other thing. Anyhow, what's your friend Jiminy Chelsea? 32 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:22,600 Well, I got distracted by that. Well, now I'm feeling bad. So let's all feel bad together. 33 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:27,600 Well, we're already all feeling bad after that news. This is from Fizz.org. Hey, you've 34 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:29,080 used this one before. 35 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:38,040 Yeah, Fizz.org. It's a science paper. Fizz is in like PHYS, right? Not F-I-Z-Z. Okay. 36 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:43,400 And it's not iPhone something.ca. Oh, right here. I have it open. iPhone began to not 37 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:51,360 see. I have it open. It's on one of my open tabs. I can never have so many open tabs. Oh, 38 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:58,440 no, I lost my article. This is taking way too long. There's too many tabs. I found it 39 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:05,560 and there was not too many tabs. Scientists make disturbing in quotes find on remote island 40 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:12,840 plastic rocks by Joshua Huitberger, March 21st, 2023, Fizz.org. There are a few places 41 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:19,120 on earth so isolated as Trinidad Island. It's not Trinidad. I was just going to ask that 42 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:23,840 actually. Well done. How do you- Because Trinidad is not that far off the coast of South America. 43 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:28,160 Either somebody put an E on there by accident. Oh, no, I lost it again. Here it is. I'm going 44 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:35,960 to move it to the start. It's Trinidad. Volcanic outcrop, a three to four day boat trip off 45 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:44,280 the coast of Brazil. Geologist for- Who wrote this article? So geologist Fernanda Avalokir-Santos 46 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:50,520 was startled to find an unsettling sign of human impact on the otherwise untouched landscape. 47 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:55,840 Rocks formed from the glut of plastic pollution floating in the ocean. Santos first found 48 00:02:55,840 --> 00:03:01,400 the plastic rocks in 2019 when she traveled to the island to research her doctoral thesis 49 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:07,160 on a completely different topic, landslides erosion and other geological risks. She was 50 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:11,720 working near a protected nature reserve known as Turtle Beach, the world's largest breeding 51 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:16,800 ground for the endangered green turtle when she came across a large outcrop of the peculiar 52 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:23,680 looking blue-green rocks. Intrigued, she took some back to her lab after her two month expedition. 53 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:27,800 Analyzing them, she and her team identified the specimens as the new kind of geological 54 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:33,520 formation, merging the materials and processes the earth has used to form rocks for billions 55 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:38,640 of years with a new ingredient, plastic trash. Quote, we concluded that human beings are 56 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:43,920 now acting as a geological agent, influencing processes that were previously completely 57 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:49,880 natural like rock formation. Quote, she told AFP. Quote again, it fits in with the idea 58 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:56,520 of the Anthropocene. Oh, that we're in the plastic age, yeah. 59 00:03:56,520 --> 00:04:01,840 Oh, that's what that is? Yeah, because we went on from the Triassic 60 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:08,240 to the Anthropocene. That is disturbing. It's where plastic actually forms a layer. 61 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:11,920 You can see it, if you were to dig in 10,000 years you would see a layer and they call 62 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:17,120 it the Anthropocene. That's crazy. I didn't know that. That is so crazy. 63 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:22,840 What you just blew my mind. Which scientists are talking about a lot these days. A geological 64 00:04:22,840 --> 00:04:27,760 era of human beings influencing the planet's natural processes. This type of rock like 65 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:32,440 plastic will be preserved in the geological record and mark the Anthropocene, which is 66 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:38,440 what Taylor just said, but way better. The finding left her disturbed and upset said 67 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:44,400 Santos, a professor at the Federal University of Carona in South Brazil. She describes Trinidad 68 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:49,760 as like paradise, a beautiful tropical island whose remoteness has made it a refuge for 69 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:55,080 all sorts of species. Sea birds, fish found only there, nearly extinct crabs, and the 70 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:58,400 green turtle. The only human. And Chelsea, just going to share my screen 71 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:04,400 so that you can see how remote this is. I want to. So I don't know why I'm on the 72 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:09,400 map. I'm looking at a map. Google Maps. Anyhow, it's really throwing me off how it has decided 73 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:14,040 to cut up Brazil like that on South America. I don't know what's going on there. Anyhow. 74 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:18,720 It looks like it's in all its provinces, maybe. This appears to be the island of Trinidad 75 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:24,160 right here. Okay. Yeah. Which is like. I like how Trinidad and Tobago. Yeah, that's where 76 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:31,920 it first sent me. I would say it's about a fifth of the way across from Brazil towards 77 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:36,920 Namibia. And it seems like it is literally like there's nothing there. And it is a territory 78 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:42,000 of Brazil. So I learned something today. It's fairly off the coast of Rio. We're all learning 79 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:46,240 new things right now during this mini. Hopefully you don't have a maximum things you're allowed 80 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:51,280 to learn for the week because you're just about at them. If not already at your quota. 81 00:05:51,280 --> 00:05:56,160 The only human presence on the South Atlantic Island is a small Brazilian military base 82 00:05:56,160 --> 00:06:01,280 and scientific research center. It's marvelous. She said in this link to you still you can 83 00:06:01,280 --> 00:06:06,040 the military base military base. Okay, I'm going to send this to you in general just 84 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:10,160 so you can open the article and see these rocks and the landscape that we're looking 85 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:15,720 at. Oh, that is a rock. Yeah, you can open it and see more pictures that to perfectly 86 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:20,680 set the actual picture I was referring to quote. So it was all the more horrifying to 87 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:25,760 find something like this and on one of the most ecologically important beaches and that 88 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:31,120 being probably untouched by humans where the plastic is popping up. There's no humans 89 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:35,080 littering. She returned to the island late last year to collect more specimens and dig 90 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:39,680 deeper into the phenomenon. Continuing her research, she found similar rock like plastic 91 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:44,280 formations had previously been reported in places including Hawaii, Britain, Italy and 92 00:06:44,280 --> 00:06:52,760 Japan since 2014. But that's notably where humans live. Yes. Yeah. I'm catching on here. 93 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:57,880 See that would make sense. But I think it's the remoteness that is shocking. Trinidad 94 00:06:57,880 --> 00:07:04,120 Island is the remotest place on the planet. They have been able to find so far. She said 95 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:09,680 she fears that as the world plastic right. Yeah, because we have we have more remote 96 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:13,520 areas that I think it's called like point Nemo is the place where if you go into it 97 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:18,440 on the planet, you're the furthest away from any human anywhere. Really? Yeah, you're closer 98 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:23,040 to people on the International Space Station when it flies over than anyone else. That's 99 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:26,920 cool. But it's it's in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Oh yeah, there it is. Oh yeah, that's 100 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:32,160 pretty far away. I'd hate that. That's terrifying. Okay, lost my tab again. Here we go. Continuing 101 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:36,840 her research, she found similar rock like plastic for me. Oh yeah, I read that she fears that 102 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:41,600 as the rocks erode, they will lead to micro plastics into the environment and further 103 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:48,600 contaminate the island's food chain. She thinks that hasn't happened yet. Yeah, that's what 104 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:53,600 I was just about to say. It seems like it's already. It's a good thing all the plastic 105 00:07:53,600 --> 00:08:01,040 is just stuck together and not going anywhere else. Okay, anyhow, there's a little bit more 106 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:06,240 and the next part's called Paradigm Shift, but I think we are fairly familiar with the 107 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:11,600 Paradigm Shift that probably needs to happen as a result of finding this out. It had to 108 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:16,240 happen long before she found this out and is worried that it will lead you into the 109 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:22,160 island. Yeah. But the effects are already here. I find it hard to believe that this is 110 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:26,200 surprising. Like we've known about Garbage Island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean 111 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:31,560 for what, like 20 years now? And it's like twice the size of Texas. So we know that they 112 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:36,760 get to remote places. Would it not be like the size of like North America by now? It's 113 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:42,440 been happening for a lot of years. Plastic doesn't break down, but it does disintegrate 114 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:47,840 down to very minute particles, which it's doing in that area because like it will break 115 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:51,760 down. It's just not the way we really want it. So then it just breaks down so that you 116 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:58,040 don't notice it. So the ocean is pretty much plastic and then we replace it. Yeah. Yeah. 117 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:01,960 And then we replace it with more plastic. So it's not getting like bigger per se. At 118 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:05,240 least I don't know. I haven't looked in on it in a while. Well, technically it is because 119 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:11,640 the water is just becoming plastic. Yeah. So that was really feel bad episode. I wonder 120 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:16,600 if this I would love to hear from an oceanographer or somebody who studies ocean currents and 121 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:21,120 see if we can learn anything from like all this plastic washing up here and see if like 122 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:25,320 it's changed anything. How they view ocean currents because that probably means there's 123 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:30,120 a direct current from somewhere that's heavily populated with people polluting to there. Or 124 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:33,680 maybe I don't know it's fishnets or something like that. Yeah. And you would think it would 125 00:09:33,680 --> 00:09:38,440 be a first world country because I don't know that they have as much plastic to throw. Oh 126 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:43,720 no, they have lots of plastic in the third world. Okay. Well, sounds like no, it doesn't. 127 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:46,920 We don't need to. And they don't really know what to do with the plastic in the third world. 128 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:51,280 Okay. Okay. There's something to ponder, I guess, for the next 48 hours. But hey, it's 129 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:56,280 educational. I'm feeling uncomfortable. I want out of this episode. And I hope we all 130 00:09:56,280 --> 00:10:21,280 feel uncomfortably smart now. Anyhow, bye.