Beautiful photos of albatross chicks killed by being fed plastic

Watch this in HD full screen. The music is powerful too.



From Chris Jordan's YouTube page:

The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.

From the photographer's website, ChrisJordan.com:

The pervasiveness of our consumerism holds a seductive kind of mob mentality. Collectively we are committing a vast and unsustainable act of taking, but we each are anonymous and no one is in charge or accountable for the consequences. I fear that in this process we are doing irreparable harm to our planet and to our individual spirits.

The music for Midway. Message from the Gyre is "15 Aftermaths" from "Vol 1. : Battle Cry".

The long, complex journey that leads us home. This is the first song I ever wrote, when I was 15-years-old.

From MidwayJourney.com:

Midway Atoll, one of the remotest islands on earth, is a kaleidoscope of geography, culture, human history, and natural wonder. It also serves as a lens into one of the most profound and symbolic environmental tragedies of our time: the deaths by starvation of thousands of albatrosses who mistake floating plastic trash for food.

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Originally saw this at MNN.com.