Pictures really show how locally dependent these problems are. Take for example the picture from Haiti, where all the threes are cut down and at the very same time, in Dominican Republic the situation is completely opposite. By looking these pictures, it makes me wonder, how things have gotten this far in the first place.

The plastic field floating in the Atlantic is a size bigger than the one in the Pacific. Man has become a geological force bigger than nature.

Sek sorry, but no way. Man has a terrible EGO and may believe he can tame the forces of nature. As an example we should just look back at the string of natural disasters that have happened in the past years:
volvanic eruptions, inundations, fires, earthquakes, you name it. Man has remained completely powerless.
We sure have reached a level were we can have an impact, I mean to have just nature notice we are there, but the ratio of forces is multiple orders of magnitudes in favor of nature. This means that when you reach the level were you can move the equilibrium point, you get a backlash. Nature will allways reach an equilibrium, probably different, and the forces in play then are out of our hands. Humankind is probably just a insignificant transitorial glitch, and nowhere it is written that we are part of the new equilibrium.

Just to put things in perspective, extremely small, insignificant cosmological events can wipe out humankind and it's EGO in the blink of an eye. It takes just a minuscule pebble of rock a few miles in diameter to annhilate us, or for the sun to have a small hiccup, etc. etc.

Dinosaurs were an extremely successfull form of life. They managed to roam the earth for more than 200 Million years (in harmony with nature) and they got grossly wiped out. We are very far from equaling such a simple feat.