无法容忍的美丽:塑料垃圾杀死信天翁

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每年,成千上万的信天翁幼鸟因饥饿、中毒和窒息死在中途岛。罪魁祸首是:塑料垃圾,这些垃圾堆积在被称为太平洋垃圾带的广阔海域。在那个偏远小岛上筑巢的幼鸟,被它们的父母喂食了满肚子的塑料,它们的父母翱翔在被污染的水域上,收集它们认为的食物。

摄影艺术家和文化活动家克里斯·乔丹最近拍摄了信天翁的命运。他说,为了让人们真正受到启发去清理地球,有时我们必须停下来,为每天正在失去的东西感到悲痛。

乔丹将他美丽而可怕的照片做成了视频幻灯片,您可以在下面观看。在开始之前,请调高电脑的声音,以听到原始音轨,这将增强一种令人震撼的敬畏、不安——或许还有启发的感觉。艺术家的更多作品可以在 www.chrisjordan.com 上看到。

Mark Fischetti has been a senior editor at 大众科学 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: 大众科学 Mind and 大众科学 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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