A BBC film crew has recorded heartbreaking footage of a once-beautiful coral reef in the Philippines choked with floating PPE equipment and discarded surgical masks.
Clearly, this is a serious and growing problem.
Today on BBC News… Divers find Philippine coral reef littered with blue surgical face masks (the single-use ones popular during the Covid-19 pandemic). https://t.co/eY8jqfHtGQ THREAD 1/10 pic.twitter.com/CPwQEJR0ah
— Howard Johnson (@Howardrjohnson) March 9, 2021
According to the BBC report:
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is washing up on coral reefs close to the Philippine capital, Manila. According to an estimate by the Asian Development Bank, during the peak of the Covid-19 outbreak, the city could have been generating up to 280 tonnes of extra medical waste per day.
Environmental groups are warning that the plastic inside face masks is breaking down and being consumed by marine wildlife. They’re urging the Philippine government to improve its handling of medical waste, to prevent further pollution of the seas.
Perhaps one day, we will hear whispery-voiced, gorilla-hugging Malthusian Sir David Attenborough talking wistfully about this threat to the marine environment on one of his politicized nature documentaries…
…but I’m not holding my breath.
That’s because I can’t help noticing a distinct correlation between eco-fascism and mask-fascism.
That is, those individuals and institutions — such as the BBC — which have been pushing for the most draconian responses to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic (masks, lockdowns, quarantines, etc) also happen to those which have been pushing hardest for an extreme environmentalist agenda.
Attenborough’s 2017 Blue Planet II series successfully generated much public hysteria about the plastic crisis facing the world’s oceans.
The then UK Environment Secretary Michael Gove pronounced himself ‘haunted’ by shocking footage, including a dead whale allegedly killed by plastic. The documentary prompted a global moral panic about the use of plastic.
In May 2019, surfing the wave of that Attenborough-generated anti-plastics moral panic, Gove pushed forward frivolous, virtue-signaling legislation banning plastic drinking straws, plastic drinks stirrers, and plastic-stemmed cotton buds.
I’d love to see Gove’s environmental conscience being similarly stirred by that horrifying mask-pollution footage from the Philippines. A ban on masks — all masks — forever. What a blessed relief that would be!
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Look at all those face Masks and this is Not off the West or east Coasts of America its not those Soda Straws either Hey Eco-Freaks why are you not demanding ban on face masks?
What do China, Indonesia and The Philippines have in common?
The answer could be lax or under-enforced environmental laws. Yet environmentalists usually target the countries with higher environmental standards, where they live, despite telling us constantly that there is only one planet. This may be seen in Australia in the killing off our forestry industry and replacing it with killing off orang utans in Indonesia.
Likewise, a hundred masks on the Great Barrier Reef would be a calamnity, while a hundred thousand masks on a much, much, much smaller reef in The Philippines would not be worth commenting on, if one cannot work out an angle whereby Donald Trump is to blame.