I went to Siesta Key over the weekend. This is consistently rated one of the ten most beautiful beaches in the world. The picture above which I took is all you need to see why it is a favorite among vacationers. White sand, sparkling blue and green water, it really is a gorgeous site. I enjoyed my visit but for me, looking out at the ocean brought other thoughts and worries.
If you have read up on the current oil crisis in the Gulf of Mexico, you know that this oil leak is spilling in excess of 5,000 gallons of nasty crude tar like oil into our oceans. There is no way to clean this up completely. This is going to mix into the waters, and work its way into the food chain from the bottom up. This doesn’t just have lasting effects for OUR food, but for all kinds of species. What kind of genetic damage is this going to do? We already poison the waters with Mercury and other contaminates as well as dump tons of plastic and garbage into the ocean, most of which is swirling as we speak off the Pacific Coast and it’s about the size of Texas. It’s called the great pacific garbage patch and it’s implications are huge. Like the oil “leak”, this is something that is going to work it’s way into everything, on a cellular level. It’s almost as if we won’t be content until we have killed ourselves from the inside, out. Forget about terrorism, we are our biggest threat. We don’t need to worry about someone else coming and killing us, because we are slowly but surely doing it to ourselves.
I personally think that the effects of this are going to be devastating and I think that if it doesn’t visually affect the beaches we covet, it might become a case of “out of sight, out of mind” and that would be an even bigger tragedy. We need to stop being complacent and just because we see a beautiful beach, it doesn’t mean everything is ok. It’s almost like we walk around, and if everything appears to look good, no one is motivated to action. It’s only when things look bad, when disaster strikes that the majority of people get off their butts and try to do something. I have read more than once about how humans really are just a virus, invading, taking over, ruining what’s in their path. That’s all we seem to do, take take take and then when it’s exhausted, move on and take something else. The only problem with this? There isn’t much left to take.
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