The Ocean
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The plastic barrier with a tapered foot-deep 3-meter-deep screen is intended to act like a coastline, trapping some of the 1. Slat said he is not deterred by the setback because engineers expected to make tweaks to the system. So, of course we were expecting to still need to fix a few things before it becomes fully operational," he said of the system created by the Ocean Cleanup, an organization he founded.
Fitted with solar-powered lights, cameras, sensors and satellite antennas, the device intends to communicate its position at all times, allowing a support vessel to fish out the collected plastic every few months and transport it to dry land for recycling.
Floating device designed to collect island of plastic in the Pacific Ocean fails to work
Slat said he expects shipping containers filled with fishing nets, plastic bottles, laundry baskets and other plastic trash scooped up by the system to be back on land within a year. Among those skeptical of the Ocean Cleanup is George Leonard, chief scientist of the Ocean Conservancy, a non-profit environmental advocacy group.
Leonard says that even if plastic trash can be taken out of the ocean, a lot more is pouring in each year. Leonard said a solution must include a multipronged approach, including stopping plastic from reaching the ocean and educating people to reduce consumption of single-use plastic containers and bottles. Slat agreed that preventing more plastic from entering the ocean is part of the solution but said something needs to be done about what's already there. Life-sized blue whale made of plastic highlights severity of ocean pollution.
Huge barrier isn't trapping plastic waste in Pacific Ocean
EU countries back single-use plastics ban, a major source of ocean waste. Beached whale had plastic cups in its stomach.
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With analog synths merging with the heavy guitars, the addition of Peter Voigtmann to the band's ranks has made a marked difference. After years of handling the spectacular lighting design at The Ocean 's live shows, essentially " playing drums on the lighting console every night " as Staps puts it, he now brings a bevy of angry, dystopian sounds to the songs. As with all of The Ocean 's releases, the music is only one piece of the puzzle.
The collective has always been known for lyrics that are poignant and thought-provoking, and Phanerozoic is no exception. The central idea upon which the lyrics are premised is that of 'eternal recurrence', " Nietzsche's concept that everything happens over and over again, an infinite amount of times throughout infinite time and space ", Staps explains.
It is about coming to terms with the fact that there are things in life which will recur and which we cannot change and finding ways of dealing with that ". Methane is a strong greenhouse gas and caused further warming in a loop effect.
The same increase in global temperatures which happened at the end of the Permian over the course of several hundreds of thousands of years, is very likely to happen in just over years now. It is true however that none of the 5 mass extinction events during the Phanerozoic were caused by human behavior, all occurred long before humanity appeared on the map.
Literally everything died at the end of the Permian, even insects didn't survive.
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The immediacy of Phanerozoic can be attributed to the band working out every detail and testing every song live in the rehearsal room prior to heading into the studio, a different approach as compared to their previous releases. The process of laying down tracks began in Iceland, with the drums being tracked at Sigur Ros' own Sundlaugin Studios with long-time friend and producer Julien Fehlmann.
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A big drum room with great natural reverb located in a bleak and beautiful place surrounded by nature provided the perfect location for the initiation of this record. The remainder of the album was tracked in Berlin. A brass section was recorded, and previous collaborators Vincent Membrez piano and longtime live cellist Dalai Theofilopoulou are featured. Katatonia vocalist Jonas Renkse delivers a stunning performance on the 11 minute track "Devonian".