Save Our Beloved Sea
Published in VallartaTribune
By Christie Seeley
vallartasounds.com
The sound of the sea is music to our ears. It carries our minds to far off places lending a tranquility difficult to find elsewhere in today’s hectic life. We imagine the abundance of fierce as well as gentle creatures that live in the immense waters and provide us with sustenance.
What if that sea and the creatures that inhabit it were not there? Impossible? No, unfortunately not. Research is telling us that our careless and excessive use of plastics is threatening our oceans, rivers and wildlife on a scale never before imagined and that moderate efforts to stop that damage are just plain not a drop in the bucket. We simply must change our thinking and our habits dramatically. Making changes can be upsetting, but every little change we make to correct this situation is a change for our lives and that of our children and grandchildren. For the world.
Imagine this. All those beautiful bags and baskets made by our local people would be lovely containers for your groceries and other purchases and you don’t need a plastic bag covering everything. If each of us begins to make an effort, we can make a difference. It is easy to think a little effort is not worthwhile but that combined with a voice in our communities to encourage others to follow suit can snowball into a great effort.
As Leonard Cohen taught us “Ring the bell you still can ring...” that may be as easy as giving up a harmful substance that takes centuries to disappear and destroys our sea and our land making its way back through the food chain into our bodies to our detriment as human beings.
Published in VallartaTribune
By Christie Seeley
vallartasounds.com
The sound of the sea is music to our ears. It carries our minds to far off places lending a tranquility difficult to find elsewhere in today’s hectic life. We imagine the abundance of fierce as well as gentle creatures that live in the immense waters and provide us with sustenance.
What if that sea and the creatures that inhabit it were not there? Impossible? No, unfortunately not. Research is telling us that our careless and excessive use of plastics is threatening our oceans, rivers and wildlife on a scale never before imagined and that moderate efforts to stop that damage are just plain not a drop in the bucket. We simply must change our thinking and our habits dramatically. Making changes can be upsetting, but every little change we make to correct this situation is a change for our lives and that of our children and grandchildren. For the world.
Imagine this. All those beautiful bags and baskets made by our local people would be lovely containers for your groceries and other purchases and you don’t need a plastic bag covering everything. If each of us begins to make an effort, we can make a difference. It is easy to think a little effort is not worthwhile but that combined with a voice in our communities to encourage others to follow suit can snowball into a great effort.
As Leonard Cohen taught us “Ring the bell you still can ring...” that may be as easy as giving up a harmful substance that takes centuries to disappear and destroys our sea and our land making its way back through the food chain into our bodies to our detriment as human beings.