The Plastic - Climate Connection Runs Through Whales

Albert Bates
Nov 3 · 9 min read

One of the most memorable thrills of my lifetime — there have been too many to easily remember — was my first swim with Atlantic whale sharks off México, in the Straits of Cuba, in 2006. My guide on the boat deck motioned to me, treading water and scanning the horizon for any dorsal fins, to “dive, dive!” and I did, just in time to see a shark some 30 feet long, with an open mouth nearly 5 foot…

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Albert Bates

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Emergency Planetary Technician and Climate Science Wonk — using naturopathic remedies to recover the Holocene without geoengineering or ponzinomics.

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