What do you think when you take a look at these two images? Do you see any connection? Maybe, maybe not. We will talk about it later. Now look at this picture. My dad keeps watching a lot of movies of this man.

  And he has his own version of a very famous dialogue from one of his movies. There are two kinds of people in the world. The ones who create problems and the ones who solve them. I want to be in the latter（(两者中)后者的） category. Now, let me tell you what I really want to do besides（而且prep除…之外） showing simple correlational pictures. I want to solve a problem, a very big problem.

  A five trillion（万亿） piece problem that's plaguing（折磨） us today. The problem of what we throw into our oceans. Did you know by 2050, we will have the same or maybe more plastic in the ocean than fish? Or if we were to take all the plastic on the ocean surface and pile（堆叠） it up. Do you know how far a distance it would cover? Take a guess.

  It will be enough to stack（堆积） two liter bottles from here to the moon and back, twice. That's one long walk. To put into perspective（透视画法）, the ocean pollution, as you can imagine, is a very, very big problem. While these statistics are huge and mind boggling, what really moved me was the impact that this waste has on life. I learned something about whales recently. On July 2013, this young whale ended upon the shores（滨） of northern Netherlands（荷兰（西欧国家））.

  The people were very surprised to find（找到） an unusually bloated stomach. When they opened it up, they found, among other things, two hose（软管） pipes, nine meter rope, and 37 pounds of plastic. This cause of death, intestinal（肠的） blockage（ 障碍物）. What emotions run within you when you see this helpless seal（封蜡）, entangled（使缠上） within this net, anger（怒）, pain, or perhaps even shame（ 遗憾的事）? There are many more horrifying pictures I have seen, which I found extremely disturbing（ 令人不安的）. Every time I see people eating fish, I feel that we're not just feeding plastic to fish.

  We are feeding it to ourselves as well. The plastic we dispose（去掉）, which ends up in the ocean, gets consumed by small organisms, which are later eaten by bigger fish, which just might be the fish that ends up on our plate. Talk about the vicious（恶的） skamic cycle. All this while, we're trying to find water and life on other planets, and I think and smile. If we cannot do justice（正义） to life and water on our planet, what are we trying to achieve by searching it outside our Earth?