Today is World Oceans Day. For some us every day is.
Recently the GUARDIAN, the INDEPENDENT, and the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, among others, have run articles about plastic pollution. This is, of course, a disaster that has taken place entirely since 1950, within the lifetimes of many of us still living.
I thank Martin for reminding me about World Oceans Day and for providing a link to a new film about albatross which can be viewed in its entirety at: https://vimeo.com/264508490
I have not yet watched it. I will later today. But I have a good idea of what it will show and expect some of it will be tragic.
I have not yet watched it. I will later today. But I have a good idea of what it will show and expect some of it will be tragic.
I don’t know if any of you have read ISLAND. Published in 1944, James Norman Hall made the observation even then that our species was becoming a cancer to the planet. And like other cancers we are metastasizing at an ever increasing rate.
Martin, who was a merchant marine officer, observed that he who was on ships in the Southern Ocean and I who have sailed there are among the few who have seen in person the magnificent albatrosses in flight over those waters. And that we might well be the last.