Sexy Mission, Sexy Boats, Sexy Crews Aim to Clean the Ocean by 2040
Sexy, Sexy Beasts of the Ocean
I admit it. I am horny for these sleek, massive ocean beasts — and the project, THE OCEAN CLEANUP, a non-profit organization that has taken on the massive challenge of cleaning up ALL the ocean’s plastic by 2040. What is making me feel frisky is that they will likely succeed.
After years of doomscrolling bad news about the environment, I felt dead inside. I haven’t had an orgasm since 2012. Sex is for people who have a future, right? Why have sex ever again? We are all going to die from plastic poisoning anyway, I figured. I threw away my vibrator, because I worried that it was leaving microplastic inside me. Talk about the enemy within!
The OCEAN CLEANUP (photo gallery link) deserves the all-caps in their name, because to date they have cleaned up 4,952,127 kilograms of garbage, concentrating on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. They quickly expanded to intercepting plastic out of rivers all over the world, to stop plastic before it reached the ocean.
I discovered THE OCEAN CLEANUP (dot com link) through hypnotizing shorts that popped up in my feed on YouTube. I began watching massive amounts of plastic being scooped up and hauled away in ships, in methodical, slow scoops with the soothing sound of the…