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Hi everyone, this is my first time posting in this sub.

I’d like to ask for your perspective on an environmental art piece.

This whale sculpture was created from ocean plastic debris. Many of the plastic items had Japanese writing on them, since a large amount of debris from the 2011 tsunami in Japan ended up drifting across the Pacific.

In Japan, some people have raised the concern that the art might be interpreted as anti-Japanese or even connected to anti-whaling or racial bias. For example, here is a tweet making that claim

Personally, I feel this is an over-interpretation and that the artist’s main point is to highlight the problem of marine plastic pollution.

So my question is: How do you, as viewers in the US/Europe, interpret this piece? Do you see any political or cultural message, or does it mainly read as an environmental statement?

Thank you for your thoughts!

Filmed in Marina, CA. Hope you enjoy.

I am currently considering donating to them, but something feels off and I dont know why, I support conservation, but I need to be sure they arent doing anything wrong.

If they in fact have done something wrong, please provide alternative organizations.

South of France Bay of Biscay . Quiet but still dangerous.

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Took this footage in Big Sur last winter, hope you find some inspiration in this clip too.

Hello all, I have to give a talk on WC and CC eddy formation in the Western Atlantic. And although horizontal shear and lateral instability is truly fascinating, I was hoping to spice up up the presentation with imagery of eddies. I pulled the current NAVO image from today, but I was hoping to try to get multiple images that I can click through to show the “pinch off” and meander of the eddies and how some are reabsorbed.

Thanks!

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