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Releasing bad chemicals into the atmosphere doesn't mean they stay up in the atmosphere. They condense into the ocean. Creatures in the ocean then take them into their bodies. That starts the biomagnification process. This is why the whales are having difficulty reproducing. They're the sentinel, They're the canaries in the coal mine, They're the harbingers of what's going to happen to us. There may only be a few, uh, generations before human beings won't be able to reproduce, and plastic floating on the ocean is nature's way of telling us to get after a problem
Releasing bad chemicals into the atmosphere doesn't mean they stay up in the atmosphere. They condense into the ocean. Creatures in the ocean then take them into their bodies. That starts the biomagnification process. This is why the whales are having difficulty reproducing. They're the sentinel, They're the canaries in the coal mine, They're the harbingers of what's going to happen to us. There may only be a few, uh, generations before human beings won't be able to reproduce, and plastic floating on the ocean is nature's way of telling us to get after a problem
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Releasing bad chemicals into the atmosphere
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Doesn't mean they stay up in the atmosphere
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They condense into the ocean creatures
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In the ocean then take them into their bodies
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That starts the biomagnification process
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This is why the whales are having
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Difficulty reproducing
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They're the sentinel they're the canaries
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In the coalmine they're the harbingers
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Of what's going to happen to us
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It may only be a few generations before
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Human beings won't be able to reproduce
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And plastic floating on the ocean is nature's way
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Of telling us to get after our problem
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Jeremy Irons sets out to discover the extent and effects of the global waste problem, as he travels around the world to beautiful destinations tainted by pollution. This is a meticulous, brave investigative journey that takes Iron...
