Camouflaged Catastrophe in "An ocean Plastics Field Trip for Corporate Executives" by Rowan Jacobsen

In "An ocean Plastics Field Trip for Corporate Executives," the author uses significant amounts of imagery to depict the grand scale of the ocean plastics issue. One such example of this is the phrase, "At first, all I see is sand and seaweed. But then, at the high-tide line, something blue catches my eye. Then something pink. I kneel to get a better look, and -impossible - the shell bits resolve themselves into a confetti of colors, half the flecks I thought were pieces of shell are actually bleached plastic." (Jacobsen 3) The author's use of imagery demonstrates how the issue at hand is…