i grew up in marfa. i was born in 1950. i'm 67.ve seen the lights and i've heard about them all my life. we show the lights regularly to people from our ranch. today we're in front of the viewing centre which is on the road between martha and alpine. it does cause some confusion because of the way it's pointed. the orientation points you to where it's easy to be misled by automobile lights, which are coming up from presidio and ojinaga. not very many people know that from right here, there is a mesquite tree right there, and if you stand about ten yards from the mesquite tree and look straight ahead, there's a bush, there's another green bush, and you'lljust see a line, if you really look, of little green bushes that form a line out to a tree, and that tree is about a mile and a half away. right over the tree is where the lights are. i don't remember a single time that someone didn't say, have you seen the marfa lights? so now when people ask if i've seen the lights, i say, have you seen the lights? and most of them haven't. but th

attenborough has been sharing his views on plastic, brexit and tv fakery, in an interview with the bbc‘s marfa overwhelmed with plastic. but at the moment we are using plastic in a completely functional sway. it baffles me. people sent me letters, and then they put them in a plastic envelope, and then put that in another envelope. why? i can't understand. i meani envelope. why? i can't understand. i mean i make it look precious or something, but it is quite functional as, and we use plastic or have done until now with total abandon, without any care or concern about where it is going to go or what it might do. and if we can pull ourselves together and recognise that actually it is a major danger, particularly in the sea, we are stepping in the right direction. an awful lot of people now are working on ways in which you can deal with plastic waste. one of the problem is of course is that plastic is not just plastic, there are lots of different kinds of plastic, chemically. so what works for one kind of plastic is not a reworking for another. those are the problems they are wrestling over the mo