I can't help but quote Walt Kelley, he wrote probably the most profound
line to appear in a comic strip. When Pogo and the gang came home and found
the swamp filled with trash, someone, probably Pogo said:

"We have met the enemy and they is us."

A bit of a paraphrase, I'm sure.

Cliff Drake
Seattle, WA

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eugene Kridler" <ekridler at olympus.net>
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 1:13 PM
Subject: Earth Day - Filthy Oceans


> Pictured are the Laysan Albatross of which I banded one or two and had
> them grab me a time or two when I managed the Hawaiian Islands
> N.W.Refuge.
>
> The divers for the Coast Guard would tell us that they could tell ship
> lanes by the amount of garbage and trash on the bottom of the oceans.
> It's amazing the trash thrown off the fantails of ships. Humans use the
> seas as gigantic garbage cans. It's criminal. Out of sight - out of
> mind. Just look at the sides of our highways, also.
>
> Pigs is not pigs. Peoples is pigs.
>
> Gene Kridler
> Sequim, WA
>
>