Op-Ed: Sound Pollution, or not... the choice is ours to make
Monday, April 21, 2014
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| Garbage removed from water by Edmonds Marine Photo copyright Marc Weinberg |
Text and photos, Marc Weinberg
Over the past week I've seen two startling examples of pollution. Both were so dramatic and startling that I could not let them be in
the background of my mind.
I was told that a high school sponsored a dive at the Edmonds Marine
to collect things off the bottom of one small area near the walkway
to the fishing pier and the first set of boat slips near by. The
haul that surfaced can speak for itself. The cell phones that were
collected are obviously the result of an accidental mishap, but the
rest was intentionally thrown into the water. What were they
thinking .... obviously they were not, or worse yet didn't care.
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| A rainbow river down the drain Photo copyright Marc Weinberg |
Saturday I went to Ballinger Village for an item and was further
reminded about how important it is to protect our environment and
Puget Sound. If more people cared it would help. If more people
took action, scenes like this would not exist. In the meantime
Shoreline and other cities are left with the task of monitoring and
cleaning surface water runoff, if indeed they can and do. I know it
probably isn't in the budget, but it surely should be. Cleaning up
our neighborhood is every person's job. Let's get to work!
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Thank you Marc Weinberg for this stark reminder of what we collectively and what our governments should do to protect OUR environment!
I hope everyone views the excellent environmental documentary with Jeremy Irons, "Trashed," at www.Trashedfilm(dot)com. It is unfathomable what is happening to the planet's oceans from plastic waste. The horrific plight of marine life daunts one by the severity of it to the point the more one knows about it, the more despair one may experience. There is hope in that more people know of the problem and we must continually advocate for shoreline and river mouth cleanup before it hits the oceans. We must all advocate for a new political system and economic system that first honors the biosphere we all share and recognizes that we can not continue business as usual. To ultimately solve the problem of plastics and waste in the oceans (includes shorelines, Puget Sound, rivers), is to know there is no place to throw away anything. The waste stream needs to change to one of no waste by total recycle and products that do not linger in the biosphere. It can be and must be done.
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