There is a lot of talk about global warming. If it is not the cars, it is the cows. If it is neither, it is man made gasses put out by factories. Perhaps it is all three, plus some!
Pollution is man made, or is it?
Whether it comes out of a chimney or a cow, it is still pollution. It still harms the atmosphere, but what harms us the most is man made objects. Now, a plastic stool is handy, light, easy to store and simply move around.
Very convenient!
However when that plastic chair and a million other useful objects are no longer usable, they are discarded improperly. If we don’t see them anymore, they must have dissolved into thin air.
Lately, there have been lot of talk about the Pacific garbage patch. As awful as that is, there is little attention paid to beaches around the world, especially beaches of the Caribbean, which are in a straight line with the Atlantic Ocean and receiving whatever “falls” into the ocean on the other side of the world.
Not to forget that plastic cup that flew off the table and lands in the water out of reach to be rescued, circles around the island and ends up on another beach on the same or another island.
Who cleans and take care of these beaches?
Beaches famous to tourists are usually taken care off by the government.
Where as the lesser known beaches must relay on visitors and locals alike. However, unless they frequent such a beach, that stretch of sand will remain untouched. For how long, nobody knows.
But if each person walking along that stretch of sand would pick up just one item, what a difference it would make.
We decided to work about 1 to 2 hours per day to clean “Pebble Beach” and we accomplished this in five days.
Beach clean.
It’s a nice feeling when at the end of the day, sitting with a French Bordeaux in hand, knowing we have indeed accomplished an environmental impact but also made the world a better place to live.
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Construction is progressing at Orient Bay. But new rules and restrictions are limiting the size of the new bars and restaurants. I am not sure this was a good idea to put such restrictions on new development. Orient Bay is the livelihood of the French side of the island as well as a major attraction for cruise customers. Hope they all will be up and running by Christmas 2018!
I hope the Fellini couple picked up their plastic water bottle and took it home. Nice post, Jorgen!