As our oceans
become more polluted with plastic and other waste, we must make our voices
heard in protest and show an example of what we buy and how we dispose safely
of our own waste.
The oceans of the
world are just as much our responsibility as the land and may hold a greater
part in our future than we can imagine.
Certainly, there are vast food resources that will be needed to feed
this expanding world population.
There is a cult that
in our throwaway society nothing matters, as long as we dispose of our rubbish
away from us. Anybody who drives
regularly will have seen how many discard their finished with items out of the
windows, instead of taking them home.
How can we pretend
to be civilised, when we drop our litter in the street for others to clean up
and ignore litter bins on the side walk?
Graffiti is common place around the world and the message is to keep our
part of this world clean and wholesome for others to enjoy.
Recycling centres
have become a part of our lives and need to be used for the greater good and
where unbroken items are continued to be used rather than to buy new again.
It costs much more
to make new than it does to keep the older ones going and resources are limited
in this world of demanding more of everything, just because they can.
This planet was made
to be beautiful and all that is good and successful is working in harmony to
keep it going through natural laws and good common sense.
It is Mankind that
makes it ugly and scarred by his greed and selfishness. Mankind continually disposes of his waste by
just leaving it behind! Does it cost so
much to clean up after you?
The paths to our
mountains are strewn with the unwanted litter of past climbers and their
teams. The space around our globe is
cluttered with the debris of space exploration.
It is high time that
we demanded a massive clean-up of our world for the betterment of us all. There are individual groups and organisation
that are doing just this, cleaning up, but we all need to address the cause if
we are to reduce this mountain of rubbish that is allowed to clutter the world
of land and sea.
There are many
tragic stories to tell of the painful death of whales and other ocean-going
animals and fish, how they have been found to contain stomachs full of garbage.
Some massive
problems have been dealt with, such as the pesticides in the food chains of the
sixties and seventies, but more needs to be done.
We need a humane
society, which cares about what we hold in trust for all generations including
our own and our children’s children. We
mustn’t always consider that cost is the only criterion for leading the way or not.
The cost to the
clear up is one thing, but we need to address the cost of allowing it to happen
in the first place and see what can be done at the very start to ensure that
there will not need to be any clean up.
We must take our
litter home and look to not buying wasteful packaging that is inconvenient and
often dangerous to species of life around this world.
Whether you believe
in a Higher Intelligence or not, you are still responsible for the decisions in
your own life and the actions and reactions that you cause.
Let us all be
mindful of our actions and send out positive thinking
for a better world and our part in it.
Jenny and Michael Ayers
Saturday, 4th November 2017
