Talk:Issues in Interdisciplinarity 2020-21/Evidence in The Plastic Continent

Brainstorming-20th Nov
On the 20th of November, our group of three organized an online meeting on Microsoft Teams. We spoke about the different ideas each of us had in mind. We thought about the Uighurs extermination, the rush for vaccines, the project of setting up a colony on Mars or even the evidence of an ancient worldwide flood. All of these projects seemed really interesting first, but then too much of an interdisciplinary Issue. Considering the short amount of words we had, we decided to go for The Plastic Continent in the North Pacific. It’s a subject that moves us all, because we are the next generation and without the Earth, we won’t have anything left. We have to take care of our planet and to inform its occupants of the big Issues especially the environmental ones such as the Plastic Continent. At the end of the meeting, we agreed to divide the parts of our projects, assigning all the different aspects that we were going to wright about. We also agreed to meet the week after to debrief and advise each other.

Brainstorming- 3rd December
On the 3rd of December we organised another meeting where we finalised the direction of our project. After our meeting with our seminar leader the previous week, we realised we need to focus on conflicting evidence. We decided to focus on two main aspectsː evidence relating to the impact of plastic on society, because many different disciplines observe the effect of oceanic plastic with different methods; and evidence used to determine who is responsible for oceanic plastic because there are different methods of doing this as well.