I agree - that's all well and good.
But I also understand that that whole area around there, including the Indonesian islands, is basically responsible for most of the huge Pacific Ocean garbage patch. Plastic. Untold tons of it, mostly broken down into little pieces all floating together because things floating tend to attract to each other.
I wish they wouldn't wantonly just pitch their garbage off into the world like that. I've read that they don't understand the problem - it's always been done this way. The tide comes in, the tide goes out, and all their garbage magically vanishes never to be seen again. How can this be bad, they wonder. What's the problem, they wonder. Crazy white people always trying to cause problems, they think...
I wonder if they actually saw all the birds found dead, dried up corpses, FULL of plastic pieces, thousands of them, if it would spark anything in their noggins. All the wildlife caught up in cast off fishing nets to drown or starve to death, etc. One could go on and on.
I'm no environmentalist or activist. I believe in using what our planet provides (in a responsible and sustainable manner), but I also think we need to take care of it better. There seems to be way too much of an "I don't give a rip" attitude across the entire planet.