Nature Killed by Plastic The most valuable parts of the world today from the tourism aspect are those areas untouched by development and where nature thrives.
The picturesque tree covered hills with nature walks and lots of animals, insects, flowers and plants to observe, photograph, admire and dream over are fast becoming a thing of the past.
One must now travel to some rather remote corners of the planet to get such a thrill as big money ploughs down the forests; development removes the food source of animals and insects, and species of flora and fauna become ever rarer.
Many are horrified when reports state how animals we grew up with and love are either on the brink of extinction, or have already expired.
Chief among these are the great apes, our closest cousins in evolutionary terms.
The Polar bears are threatened, as are many species of fish, the Orangutans of Sumatra, and the list goes on and is growing almost daily.
Climate change is another elephant in the room when it comes to species survival.
But plastic is a major cause of death among so many that it would be impossible to name them all here.
Tears fell when watching videos of dead birds, like albatross babies, who have been fed plastic instead of fish by their mothers who are confused by it.
Plastic cigarette lighters, pieces of plastic adornments, drink bottle tops and so on have the same colour as many of the ocean animal species that would be their normal food.
Their stomachs were crammed full with such things and it's happening right now worldwide.
The thickness of plastic particles floating on top of the oceans stops sunlight getting into the region below where animals depend on it for their health and where algae and krill should grow.
In some regions it is so thick that beaches are now covered with it to a depth of up to a meter or more.
Some Hawaiian beaches fall into this category.
The archipelago that Charles Darwin used for his theory of Evolution is in dire straits from the pollutants.
Turtles are found there with plastic bands wound tightly around their middle with the likelihood that it happened while they were small and got stuck in it.
Other dead ones have been found with it around their necks strangling them into slow death and starvation.
Many fish are suffering diseases never known in them before and plastic is one of the things scientists are leaning towards as a cause.
As fish stocks are dwindling from overfishing as well as the sophisticated radar and traps that allow huge hauls to be harvested, along with everything else caught up in the nets, the food resource of the sea is doomed.
Humans have but a short time to live because we don't care.
As a collective global society other priorities are far more important than conserving nature.
The big guys rule who are ripping it apart to make themselves richer and more important but in the end where will they be? They will be just as dead as the rest of us and their money may simply travel back to the land to fertilise it for more life to begin.