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Multi-Oceanic Garbage Patch Treaty (MOGPT)


The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient.
One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach — waiting for a gift from the sea.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The sea is the conscience of our civilization.
- Phillipe Cousteau

Always, then, in this flotsam and jetsam of the tide lines, we are reminded that a strange and different world lies offshore.
- Rachel Carson, The Edge of The Sea


The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, for which many leaders of nations in the past signed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Treaty, is a lot worse than originally thought.

According to Ariel Schwartz, "at least 1,700 miles of plastic trash is floating in what is commonly known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch."

Moreover, if you thought the Great Pacific Garbage Patch was a nightmare, things are actually a lot worse — the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has a twin.

Scientists have found a matching patch in the Atlantic Ocean that stretches for thousands of square miles. The Great Atlantic Garbage Patch covers thousands of square miles between Bermuda and the Azores islands.
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Great Atlantic Garbage Patch...

And the bad news doesn't stop there — scientists warn the phenomenon is likely to exist in still more places around the globe. Ocean currents determine the precise gathering of the junk, and the patch lies in the middle of a giant ocean gyre, or vortex in the sea. There are five major gyres in the world's oceans, and one group, 5 Gyres, is determined to search the remaining 4 for evidence of similar plastic island gatherings.

We, the (largely) unrecognised nations and micronations of the world, now need to claim the physical body of all that is bad. In the past we have claimed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Treaty, but we now need to extend these claims, based on the new scientific findings.

We, the (largely) unrecognised nations and micronations of the world, now need to claim the unclaimed body called the Multi-Oceanic Garbage Patch (MOGP), which includes the garbage of all the major and minor gyres in the world's oceans. None of the arrogant states of the UN, or the UN itself will claim that this is, in fact, their garbage, and that it truly spans the entire globe, so we shall claim all this garbage.

I the Underwritten, and Governor of the United Micronations Multi-Oceanic Archipelago (UMMOA), invite all landless and sealess leaders of nations to claim their 'lawless' and 'sinful' piece of the Multi-Oceanic Garbage Patch (MOGP), and to add their signature to the Multi-Oceanic Garbage Patch Treaty (MOGPT), whose three sole treaty articles shall state that
  1. the claims of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Treaty (GPGPT) are extended to all major and minor ocean gyres;
  2. the MOGPT does recognise and establish eschatological sovereignty claims ('end of time' claims); and
  3. all new claims shall be asserted while the MOGPT is in force, for as long as all the garbage remains without claimants (garbage 'potentates').
    4.
In essence, all signatories to this treaty uniquivocally state that, "This patch is your patch, this patch is my patch, from California, back to California..." All leaders shall publicise this claim to the best of their abilities, and this website shall make the claim public.

All nations without land or sea ('good'), or without full control of any land or sea, are invited to be signatories to this treaty, so long they are serious nations, have a decent website, and lawfully represent seven or more real, unrelated human beings, who feel unrepresented or underrepresented by UN member states. By the way, leaders of UN member states may also sign this treaty, seriously claim part of the MOGP, and publish/publicise this endeavour as they see it fit. We welcome all men and women of good will.

As soon as we have enough signatories, we shall send the signatures and claim to the United Nations, the claimants 'without sin', who judge all others outside of their 'club of righteousness' to be sinful.


SIGNATORIES




REFERENCES

Space Debris Treaty