The images of this diver filming himself swimming in a sea that’s filled with plastic garbage is just as saddening as it is disgusting. To think that that this much waste is being dumped into the sea is appalling really, and that the marine life has to cope with it is even worse. The current that continually moves the floating junk makes it look as though the surface of the water is nothing but garbage, which it could very well be in some regions. This kind of thing has got to stop, but saying it is easy, doing it is something else.
Throughout history it’s been proven that mankind is the only animal that will severely alter their surroundings in ways that will not give back to the land but will continually take. None of us are innocent in this no matter how clean those of us who are environmentally-conscious want to believe we are. The continual dumping of garbage into the world’s oceans and the accumulation is seen in this video leading to a disaster of epic levels. It might not affect the current generation but what that means is that we’re leaving a planet that’s already wrecked for those that come after us. From the ages of abundance and forward our race has despoiled the land continually, forgetting how to live with the environment in favor of subjugating it to our needs. At this point if humanity was to change and go back to their roots many people would be unable. Several would perish before equilibrium could be found and a lot of people would simply refuse and the buildup would continue.
At some point, and some would argue that this has already happened, the planet will say in it’s own way that this is enough, that it can’t take any more, and that it’s time for a radical shift. What happens after that is something only the scientists can guess at since a lot of them have been crunching the numbers and doing whatever they can to see what might be possible when it comes salvaging this world. The sad part about is that in order for the world to be salvaged it might have to go back to square one and start over. That’s one of the most extreme situations of course and one that we wouldn’t want, but in light of these kind of sights those words are upon the lips of many people when talk of how we set this right comes up.
No one wants the world to end, no one wants to even suggest it might happen, but the reality of what humanity is doing to the world, starting with the oceans, is just too blatant to be unseen. Overpopulation and overconsumption have come to define our race no matter where we reside or how crowded our cities become. The epidemic of waste came long ago and has been continually building ever since. The saddest part is that we’re not the ones paying for it initially, it’s the world we depend on for our survival that’s feeling the pinch.
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