"It’s unfathomable how much garbage is in the ocean.”
Ain’t no surprise that Bali, once the prettiest island on earth, has crumbled under the burden of millions of tourists, its third-world infrastructure overwhelmed by the waste of four thousand hotels and innumerable villas, homes and whatever else.
I first went to the joint as a kid in the eighties when there were still lingering vestiges of its Morning of the Earth idyll, the water out there on the Bukit so vividly green it was impossible to catch on film; and the water around Canggu, then a series of untouched rice paddies, was free from any sort of plastic drinking vessel.
Yeah, well, Bali in 2022 is a whole new thing.
The food is better than its ever been, yoga studios, wellness centres, spas have pushed out the grimy singlet and pirate perfume stores and the well-manicured sip twenty buck cocktails amid some of the most awe-inspiring architecture on earth.
But, the water? Ain’t a place like it on earth.
Kelly Slater knows.
He was there for three months earlier this year and has described his horror at the rivers of waste floating through the lineups, at one point even being unable to surf ‘cause of the garbage.
“You couldn’t surf. It’s the first time I’ve ever had to get out of the water anywhere in the world and stop surfing because of garbage… it’s unfathomable how much garbage is in the ocean.”
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Last week, a video of a VAL consumed by garbage while learning to surf near Canggu was a huge hit on socials, the wretched woman appearing to scream as she flees the filth.
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Did the government tell you that?
The NYT?
Steven Colbert?
Which clown show was it?
Clearly more than you because I know the whole “vaccine” program is a complete scam.
And a deadly scam, at that.
another reason to buy American made goods. The only real “fair trade” in thw world, no slaves, proper environmental restrictions and a proper price point so you just don’t throw it all away…….
I remember when wed just throw trash out of the car window.
Happy days.
Just beginning the northwest monsoon season in Indonesia, which in many situations like the southern coast 0f Bali, the wind will blow massive rafts of trash onto the beaches.
Massive floating rafts of trash produced by ignorant locals, as they leave their rubbish in rivers and streams all over Bali and the rest of Indonesia, which is flushed into the ocean during the rainy season.
It’s not international tourists, randomly throwing their rubbish everywhere – 99% of the problem of rubbish in the ocean in Indonesia is the traditional practice of the locals.
Surely Ke11y would’ve seen the business upside to this: more high-end Routerknown garments from “recycled” green-washed garbage. Win-win
Don’t forget about Kelly’s recycled floating fins.
Can you blame the Chinese – as I recall from yearly short visits up until covid, the Japanese have a fetish for wrapping every fucking thing in neat little plastic bags/ boxes etc
Hehe. I don’t like it
I remember a school group turning up at Lakey in a big dump truck. They spent the day there and left behind mountains of rubbish, despite their transport essentially being a rubbish truck. A group of us picked it all up and took it back to the place we were staying. Later saw the manager throw it all over a fence into the vacant property next door.
Musta been a white person involved somehow.
I proposed ealier that Santa Cruz, Cali…could be deposed to Alaska and form a surf team separate from the mainland USA…Hawaii tried…But if this story doesn’t drive some of their fishermen nutso to protest, nothing will…
buy tickets via Alaskan Air or power up the engines and head to Siska!
Snow crab season in Alaska canceled
The snow crab population is starting to plummet in Alaska, resulting
in crabbing season being put on hold for the first time in history.
Hundreds of Alaskan crabbers will be sidelined for at least a year
and a half while agencies investigate what is behind the decline, Fox Weather reports. The crabbing season was supposed to start in a few days.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries is
reported to have found a lack of adult crabs available for harvest.
“We use those numbers in an assessment model that get plugged into
harvest strategy that annually determines the amount of crowd that can
get harvested,” explained Miranda Westphal, a biologist with Alaska’s
Department of Fish and Game.
According to Westphal, one reason for the decline of the snow crab population is possible starvation.
“Their metabolic demands were increased because they were in warmer
water, and many likely starved to death. They were also likely impacted
by predators and disease,” Westphal explained.
Fox News reports that the crabbing industry believes members of the
Alaskan fleet will face bankruptcy and face a total of $1 billion in
overall losses.
This is major news. Big implications to the crabbing communities and industry up there. Good you provided some real journalism and current events that matter.
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Wonder if old man-goat wasn’t taken out of context and was actually referring to human garbage, floating about.
NonJohn likes to burn his trash. Smells good too.
100% – Cheap labor is EXACTLY where we place value. Capitalism 101
Steve Jobs and now Tim Cooke are Lefties.
Phil Knight used to be a Leftie but now he’s seeing the light and donating to Oregon Republicans.
Bezos…Lefty.
Gates…Eugenical Lefty.
Anyone else I missed?
DT loves the cheap keep America great swag he gets from the red dragon.
Like what?
The LA company that makes his hats say they are made in the US.
That is just where they remove tags.
Not sure what this is supposed to mean. This is about capitalism. We get it, only the right is right in JH world. Can you move on please?
You’re taking an ideological beating this weekend.
Next you’re going to tell me that inflation is transitory, two quarters of negative GDP is not a recession and that higher gas prices ain’t Joe’s fault.
Like I said…STOP digging.
Ha ha. Okay Skippy. Time for you to move on. You have yet to realize you are one of the crazies…
How many useless boosters have you had?
Bali garbage caused by a dead Leftie Steve Jobs? The problem is not lefties or righties, it’s humans are idiots. I’m sure JH aka Covidiots Rule buys everything at Walmart and closest is full of red made in China hats
also too many people on the planet — use birth control
This
And or covid vaxx
I’m arguing with myself?
Are you sure?
Arguing implies your repackaged right wing propaganda points are worth the effort to engage with. Maybe turn off Fox and paddle out?
The Covid narrative has completely collapsed on its own.
Only retards believe anything else.
Consider yourself luck you’ve not had family members get it and die from it, asshole.
Whether or not I’m an asshole is irrelevant.
The fact is that the long term damage of failed Covid policies will be far worse than the pandemic itself.
And yes, that includes loss of life.
Nah, it is; and you proved it again.
Almost everything you were told by your government and media deities was wrong.
And the fact that you can’t admit it makes you the bigger asshole.
Left is the new right…or something like that.
Right! Or is it Left?
Exactly!
Not to be a republicain at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head.*
* (unless you’re filthy filthy rich)
Tyler Wright is left
*technically my upvote is really a downvote. Sooo fucked.
I can assure you the tourists aren’t the one dumping tons of trash into the ocean
They create the trash Einstein.
Can absolutely, 100% confirm.
During our first trip to Bali in 2011 we had drinks with the hotel manager (The Bale in Nusa Dua which was amazing) and he explained that the hotels were teaching staff that plastic doesn’t decompose like banana leaves.
When we went back in 2017 it wasn’t much better.
It’s a local cultural issue not a tourism issue.
bali trash people to make us all feel betta ’bout ourselves…
https://i0.wp.com/news.bali…
Tons of tourists = tons of trash. And that’s a global rule of thumb, not just Bali.
I can assure you the trash would be reduced by 99% if the tourists weren’t there.
That’s utter nonsense mate. Dunno how much you’ve travelled/lived/worked in developing countries but it’s lack of infrastructure and education that are the biggest reasons for trash accumulation.
I lived in Samoa for 6 months in ‘99. They dumped trash everywhere. Then lived in Thailand for 18 months in 00/01, and travelled through SE Asia for 2 solid years. Some of the most backwater places that had barely ever seen a tourist were absolutely filthy. Like holy fuck filthy. Why? Coz no infrastructure, trash collection, roads, trucks, sewage systems etc.
Don’t even start on India.
Tourists have got sweet fuck all to do with the trash problems in comparison with low level infrastructure and education in poorer countries.
We’re talking about Bali in this instance. One of the biggest attractions for Tourists is that it’s dirt cheap.
Infrastructure and education costs money and in a corrupt political culture it’s far from being a priority.
Most Tourists will moan about the trash but at the same time are haggling over 5 cents for a wooden cock bottle opener.
The West and capitalism has a lot to answer for.
Not dirt cheap anymore. Was actually surprised at some of the prices.
Takes knee.
Solved!!
ye. mike thompson…
satryionic…
“how did you wash down the coke/”
asks Chuckie/
Exactly. Infrastructure and education costs money. Poor countries don’t have money. Thus, they’re polluted. You just said it yourself…
On another note, countries like Indo/Cambodia/Thailand etc makes mega-millions/billions from tourist dollars every year (pre-pandemic). What the fuck are they doing with all that tourist dosh? They sure as shit ain’t spending it on infrastructure and education, are they?
It ain’t the tourists throwing plastic bottles and trash in the rivers and waters…if they have the hotels, the bars, the booze, and the day spas, and they’re happy to campaign for tourists to come and spend their hard-earned, then do something about waste fucking management
This is spot on.
Single use plastic (bottles, bags) clearly a major problem which is not being addressed. How is a small plastic coke bottle still legal? Why not cans only? Clearly the $ from cola is more important than clean planet..
Demand demands it.
So suppliers supply it.
Millions and millions of barrells of oil consumed every day. By climate crybabies.
need squid?
DR, I’m 50 pages into Ghosh’s The Nutmeg’s Curse…may be worth your time.
He’s re-reading Lady Chatterley’s Lover!
Penthouse Letters had a story exactly like this one in Bali
Nice bits!
Chiba prefecture gets a nice Pacific cleaning, but still has pollution.
Well stop fucken going there Slater it’s pretty fucken simple.