無法容忍的美麗:塑膠垃圾殺死信天翁

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每年,成千上萬的信天翁幼鳥因飢餓、中毒和窒息死在中途島。罪魁禍首是:塑膠垃圾,這些垃圾堆積在被稱為太平洋垃圾帶的廣闊海域。在那個偏遠小島上築巢的幼鳥,被它們的父母餵食了滿肚子的塑膠,它們的父母翱翔在被汙染的水域上,收集它們認為的食物。

攝影藝術家和文化活動家克里斯·喬丹最近拍攝了信天翁的命運。他說,為了讓人們真正受到啟發去清理地球,有時我們必須停下來,為每天正在失去的東西感到悲痛。

喬丹將他美麗而可怕的照片做成了影片幻燈片,您可以在下面觀看。在開始之前,請調高電腦的聲音,以聽到原始音軌,這將增強一種令人震撼的敬畏、不安——或許還有啟發的感覺。藝術家的更多作品可以在 www.chrisjordan.com 上看到。

Mark Fischetti has been a senior editor at 大眾科學 for 17 years and has covered sustainability issues, including climate, weather, environment, energy, food, water, biodiversity, population, and more. He assigns and edits feature articles, commentaries and news by journalists and scientists and also writes in those formats. He edits History, the magazine's department looking at science advances throughout time. He was founding managing editor of two spinoff magazines: 大眾科學 Mind and 大眾科學 Earth 3.0. His 2001 freelance article for the magazine, "Drowning New Orleans," predicted the widespread disaster that a storm like Hurricane Katrina would impose on the city. His video What Happens to Your Body after You Die?, has more than 12 million views on YouTube. Fischetti has written freelance articles for the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian, Technology Review, Fast Company, and many others. He co-authored the book Weaving the Web with Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, which tells the real story of how the Web was created. He also co-authored The New Killer Diseases with microbiologist Elinor Levy. Fischetti is a former managing editor of IEEE Spectrum Magazine and of Family Business Magazine. He has a physics degree and has twice served as the Attaway Fellow in Civic Culture at Centenary College of Louisiana, which awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 2021 he received the American Geophysical Union's Robert C. Cowen Award for Sustained Achievement in Science Journalism, which celebrates a career of outstanding reporting on the Earth and space sciences. He has appeared on NBC's Meet the Press, CNN, the History Channel, NPR News and many news radio stations. Follow Fischetti on X (formerly Twitter) @markfischetti

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