Clarke and Dawe - The Front Fell Off

[this video] [Interviewer:] So what do you do to protect the environment in cases like this? [Senator Collins:] Well, the ship was towed outside the environment. [Interviewer:] Into another environment…. [Senator Collins:] No, no, no. it’s been towed beyond the environment, it’s not in the environment [Interviewer:] Yeah, but from one environment to another environment. [Senator Collins:] No, it’s beyond the environment, it’s not in an environment. It has been towed beyond the environment. [Interviewer:] Well, what’s out there? [Senator Collins:] Nothing’s out there… [Interviewer:] Well there must be something out there [Senator Collins:] There is nothing out there… all there is …. is sea …and birds ….and fish [Interviewer:] And? [Senator Collins:] And 20,000 tons of crude oil [Interviewer:] And what else? [Senator Collins:] And a fire [Interviewer:] And anything else? [Senator Collins:] And the part of the ship that the front fell off, but there’s nothing else out there.

[this video] [Interviewer:] Well, if this wasn’t safe, why did it have 80,000 tonnes of oil on it? [Senator Collins:] Well, I’m not saying it wasn’t safe, it’s just perhaps not quite as safe as some of the other ones. [Interviewer:] Why? [Senator Collins:] Well, some of them are built so the front doesn’t fall off at all. [Interviewer:] Wasn’t this built so the front wouldn’t fall off? [Senator Collins:] Well, obviously not. [Interviewer:] “How do you know?” [Senator Collins:] Well, ‘cause the front fell off, and 20,000 tons of crude oil spilled into the sea, caught fire. It’s a bit of a give-away.” I would just like to make the point that that is not normal. [Interviewer:] Well, what sort of standards are these oil tankers built to? [Senator Collins:] Oh, very rigorous … maritime engineering standards. [Interviewer:] What sort of things? [Senator Collins:] Well the front’s not supposed to fall off, for a start.

I'm starting to suspect I might be cynical. I was pretty impressed at the "1,000,000 cigarette butts that I removed from the environment" but I couldn't help but think "moved into what?" which brought this ( [this video] ) to mind: [Interviewer:] Into another environment…. [Senator Collins:] No, no, no. it’s been towed beyond the environment, it’s not in the environment [Interviewer:] Yeah, but from one environment to another environment. [Senator Collins:] No, it’s beyond the environment, it’s not in an environment. It has been towed beyond the environment. [Interviewer:] Well, what’s out there? [Senator Collins:] Nothing’s out there… Also, I couldn't help but wonder if he was removing trash at a faster rate than it was being added. Picking up litter is a good thing certainly, but we really need to get people to stop creating it in the first place. Even properly disposed of all that trash is a massive problem, but I'd love to see more effort getting people to clean up after themselves. A very long time ago I'd see PSAs with owls imploring us to "Give a hoot" and fake indians crying. Was that helpful? Does that kind of thing even exist today? Now that nobody watches TV are they pushed at kids on tiktok?