Plastic the Post-Apocalyptic Effect

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The other day I mused about the things I have read in particular that we will have more plastic in the oceans than fish by 2050 according to the reports. However the oil companies want to produce 40% more plastic in the next 10 years (madness as we are trying to get rid of it), this means that the above statement of more plastic than fish in the sea will reduce probably by 8-10 years. This is now a scary thought. The year is now 2040 ish.

So If the fish stocks are not enough to sustain life this is a serious hole in our food chain and those 30 -40 years will dispensary in a blink of any eye (1 generation). So of the fish stock die, we start to die to to the lack of one major food source, plus all the contamination of plastics in the general food chain, so we are dying out at a faster rate than is what could be considered “normal”.

So what happens when life on earth does not exist as we know it today? Well this series of photographs I did the other day, may look odd, but in a Plastic Post-Apocalyptic world, who is there to take care of the buildings if we are not here?. This is where nature starts to reclaim the earth as it’s own and over time probably 500-1000 years will look beautiful again as man kind has not been there to ruin a beautiful planet.

 

So please think before your use plastic in your every day life, as this Plastic Post-Apocalyptic effect could come sooner than you expect if we go on as we are today.

For more on this series please read the whole blog at and the complete series of photos.

I am a passionate photographer who’s mission is to photograph the worlds ocean, lakes, & rivers showing their magnificent beauty and their bad side of being near mankind, e.g. rubbish and pollution that affects us all. It is not man made wars that will kill us, but the plastic in our wildlife, birds, fish and other creatures that we rely on to live e.g.”The Food Chain” this is poisoning our everyday lives if we continue as we are. It is happening silently without us realizing it.

Michael Crawford-Hick



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This piece was edited and posted onto SEVENSEAS Media by: Bharamee Thamrongmas.