Book details

  • Genre:science
  • Sub-genre:Environmental Science
  • Language:English
  • Pages:92
  • Paperback ISBN:9798317837891

STRIVING FOR A LOOP:

EXPPRESSING THE POLYMER CRISIS

By J. Lockwood White

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Overview

Endocrine disruption aside, here are some soft and minimal, tentative remedies for a real plastics crisis to remind us to do something now. This small book reminds us to pay attention to the prominence and prevalence of an environmental take-over that humans can't seem to grasp with any urgency at all. Wildlife and humans are literally drowning, inside and out, in soft, hard, floating, flying, incongruous matter. An island in Hawaii has so much trash on a beach with volcanic activity that scientists are getting ready to coin a new phrase: plastiglomerate. Aliens will surely do a fly-by when they detect this inability for action. Author, Joanne Lockwood White tries to lighten the gloom with an interesting slant.
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Description

TRASH supersedes any attempt of a celestial body to exercise a balancing act. Relative equilibrium is a complex achievable action in average conditions. The celestial body in reference is quite a lively one with a Biosphere, Lithosphere, Atmosphere and Hydrosphere complete with complex synchronicity and resilience. In respect for these four categories, it has been performing for over 2 billion years with remarkable capacity, contingency and function. The choking point of trash has arrived and the stunning rhythm of organisms with relationships and cycles is ending a spectacular dance. I might add that a beautiful but minimalist celestial body such as our Moon could also be degraded unmercifully with trash as is our stratosphere currently strewn with thousands of working, obsolete and broken satelites. Take a literary stroll through STRIVING For a LOOP as a kind wake up call to the crisis and thoughts of prevention
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About The Author

Joanne Lockwood White is a science teacher, adjunct professor, wild edible forager, universe gazer, teacher trainer, homeschool helper, preschool founder, amateur fossil hunter, kayaker, neighborhood biker, skier, obvious bragger, citizen scientist and cranky critic of mediocre school settings. She hopes that this book will cause people to snap out of the hollowness of a rut. Human children and all living things deserve blissful or productive experiences as a mandate, on a healthy planet. She is surrounded by a jovial and supportive, large extended family, wonderful friends, neighbors, co-workers, siblings, enchanting offspring, devoted husband, memories of her parents and Nature.....Previous books include: SPROUTING THE CURRICULUM: PERVERSELY LOGICAL THOUGHTS AND ESSAYS ON IMPROVING AMERICAN EDUCATION; MOMENTUM: THOUGHTS ON A HOMESCHOOLING STATE OF MIND, and OUTDOOR SHOWER: ODE TO AN UNREPENTANT INVIGORATING LUXURY. Look for her authentic learning on Facebook and Instagram: JLockwoodWhite
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