Forget the old poem, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” Look deep in that glittering eye of the the old man. Let it hypnotize you with his message. He has come to you to say, “Clean up the world, goddamnit.”
Taken on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking. To see more of the series click the photo or follow this link

Republican solution: garbage that sinks