the lunacy blog: W.O.D.

... as in ''WOD? WOD?!?

WHAAAAAAT???

ANOTHER *WORLD OCEANS DAY* GOES BY

AND NOT A WORD OF IT FROM...

1) AQUAMAN

2) CAPTAIN NEMO

3) ARIEL - THE MERMAID, NOT THE ANGEL

(...)

999) sub-mariner ... not that anyone ever wants to hear from him! LOL

YOU GET THE DRIFT!!!

Considering the abysmal state of our oceans nowadays, the constant hazards faced by its seafaring denizens, the threats to entire ecosystems, the deterioration of the all-important coral barrier reefs, the depletion of the fish stock and sea mammal population, the sadistic usage of the seas as a dumping ground by countless toxic industries AND several parts of the oceans having become a death trap with the dubious consistence of a soup of plastics WHICH WAS PROVEN TO BE THE CAUSE OF DEATH OF A WHALE, RECENTLY... well, it sucks that all of those sea heroes and ocean defenders are simply not in the mood to talk about it - ever - and not even on WORLD OCEANS DAY...!!!

THE BLOOD OF COUNTLESS SEA CREATURES

IS ON YOUR HANDS --- ALL OF YOU!!!

THIS CANNOT CONTINUE ---

IT SIMPLY CANNOT CONTINUE LIKE THIS

Banning plastics is a start... a very necessary one.

The question is... is it too late, already?

The industrial age brought about the revolution of plastics - they replaced virtually everything that used to be made with other materials. They were good, cheap, reliable. But then their volatile (e.g. disposable) nature and easy-to-throwaway ''quality'' soon turned into a nightmare as these plastics started to show up ---resurface--- virtually everywhere in nature. Everywhere they shouldn't be present, most particularly in the oceans; and in cataclysmic quantities, at that. This has got to stop. But doubt lingers on many minds that such an AQUAPOCALYPTIC trend can be reversed now, this late into its very visible effects...