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“Alive we thought beyond our lives to give our bodies as a book for you to read.”
― Tom Phillips

“Perhaps our most impressive piece of work is the Great Pacific Trash Vortex. It's almost poetic that in the middle of the ocean there's a vast, swirling rubbish dump of crap we've casually disposed of - an area the size of Texas where the ocean currents of the North Pacific Gyre keep our waste products endlessly circling around the sea. Mostly made from microscopic particles of plastic and fragments of discarded fishing equipment, it's invisible to the naked eye, but for marine life it's a very real thing.”
― Tom Phillips, Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up