Another day out snorkeling today. It’s amazing the amount of junk in the sea around here. People in this neighborhood still throw trash in the ocean, and everyday the river that feeds into the sea from here brings in all sorts of garbage from the markets. Then you have the boats and ships that pass by here and throw their trash into the ocean. And some of the small hotels here dump sewage directly in the Bali Sea. And, that’s where all this garbage comes from.
A few years ago, I took a rubber dinghy along the north coast and down the west coast. While I was on this two day trip, I went past little islands of garbage floating in the water: bottles, plastic sandals, plastic bags filled with trash, old clothes, rubber pellets, and a mass of other odds and ends.
Yesterday, I came across a few articles on the internet about this terrible problem and what it is doing to our oceans. What do we do about this one?
1 comment:
Hi Bruce
This environmental problem is one of education I think. There is plenty of knowledge about the long term negative effects of dumping ... on life in the ocean and on land.
Many documentaries point to the children of a culture as the place to begin the process of change. Through education in schools they begin to implement the solutions to protect the environment and turn around the damamge.
Local animal sanctuaries have management that may be open to this idea. Local interest groups can be formed to begin an advocacy process to instill a new thinking and new habits and processes.... ones that we take for granted i.e. municipal garbage collection operations, garbage cans at the markets and on the streets and beach areas.
As a local political advocate I have come to understand that imposition is not the way to get things done. The "buy in" approach is always more successful.
Felix in Sarasota, Florida
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