“There Goes the Entire Neighborhood”
When Herblock used the trash-laden globe as a metaphor for world pollution, he conveyed the overwhelming nature of the problem. In February 1973, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued a report about water pollution covering an estimated 700,000 square miles of ocean just off the continental United States. NOAA reported finding “globs of oil” and plastic waste in the part of the Atlantic Ocean called the Sargasso Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.
When Herblock used the trash-laden globe as a metaphor for world pollution, he conveyed the overwhelming nature of the problem. In February 1973, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued a report about water pollution covering an estimated 700,000 square miles of ocean just off the continental United States. NOAA reported finding “globs of oil” and plastic waste in the part of the Atlantic Ocean called the Sargasso Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.