5 Gyres - Understanding Plastic Pollution Through Exploration, Education, and Action

"Dear lord as we come here today in the presence of a learning community, I would like to thank you for helping us to get here to learn, we hope to learn as much as we can today before we leave, I hope we can change the way plastic is inside our world and just change our way of living.  In Jesus name, Amen."
This student from Deep Creek Middle School on the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas led the class in a prayer. 
It will be through belief, personal conviction, that a conservation ethic about our oceans will thrive.  In E.O. Wilson's book, "The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth," he returns to his Alabama roots to give a message to Baptist ministers to join his Alliance for Life.  His appeal is that human beings have a moral responsibility to curtail the mass extinction being caused by our exploitation of the land and sea.  The fate of creation is the same as the fate of our species.  All systems of belief, in all cultures, share this ethos in their text and religious philosophy.  What he says to the Christian, "God wants you to save Eden."
And Charles Darwin, in the "Origin of Species" explained with equal eloquence, "There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that...from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."